Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Starting with less of a bang than you might expect, this video gets it spot for being a concert you would actually want to be at. Every time the drums hit you experience a deep level of fomo never before experienced. Don’t know how all of these fictional characters got tickets to this show, but we all hate them for being their in our places. This truly was the Beyonce, Taylor, SZA debacle decades in advance.

Lady Gaga – Poker Face

Keeping with the fomo, another place there needed to be a pin dropped for. Gaga’s first video is a little different though in that there’s an yearning to embody two groups here. For one, yes you want to be the audience. You also want to play poker surrounded by hip hop dance crews and scantily clad mannequins. But you also want to be Gaga herself. From the first seconds, as she rises from the water with her diamond venison mask, you too want to be the diva of the party. She slayed, it slayed, and there has never been a party whomst slayed the same since.

Olivia Newton – John and Gene Kelly – Xanadu

Is the fact that this is from a film slightly cheating? Perhaps. But is Olivia Newton John and Gene Kelly singing while changing in and out of various costumes the best thing to happen to cinema? Oh 100%. This video is the party that will not stop. Literally, it just goes on and on because it can. And honestly it could have been more. More skates, more costumes, more singing, and above all else, more Xanadu.

Doja Cat – Need to Know

This video gets the award for the vibes alone. Most videos that take place in space usually show our main engaging in some like risking adventure or just being weird. Mrs. Perry and Madame Gaga we’re looking at you. But Doja provides an escapist fantasy liken to the Jetson. You have all the future technology you can ask for, and all you have to do is enjoy it. And isn’t that nice? Call me lazy, but sometimes it’s nice when your only worry is which hovercraft you’re going to take to the bar. Beam me to that reality any day.

My Chemical Romance – Welcome to the Black Parade

Some of you may be asking, why would you want to live in an apocalypse? If that describes you, we are not the same. We have not lived the same life. Some videos gain reverences for their cultural importance. And the reality is the second you hear the G note you stand at attention, and the second Gerard starts singing you belt the anthem. This is the bedrock of our constitution. The founding fathers wrote what they wrote because of MCR. Also don’t lie, the suits are a slay.

Michael Jackson – Bad

So obviously there had to be at least one entry by the kind of music videos. And don’t get me wrong, it was not an easy climb to the top. However, lets level here. If someone told you that your future was to join a gang that handles all their disputes in a parking lot via dance battle, would you be mad? Of course, you wouldn’t. You would love it. And of all the Jackson videos, Bad gives us the clearest vision of what our lives would be like as part of his gang. And it would be both epic and Bad AF.

Céline Dion – It’s All Coming Back to Me Now

This truly is a case of if you know you know, and if you’re lost you’re lost. There is not enough time in the world to explain the serotonin that would come from wearing an extremely flowy dress in your mansion on a mysterious dark night. It is something you just have to experience to understand the drama that you will relish in. If everyone is being honest, the majority of you have imagined yourselves crying over a lover on the porch of our luxurious mansion in a flowy dress. And if probably looked a whole lot like this video.