The Best ‘When the Video Doesn’t Match the Song’ Videos

Picture the hardest rap song you can think of. What might its video look like? Would it be tough, raw, and intense? Now, what if you took those same visuals and, instead, put the corniest, sweetest, dumbest bubblegum pop song you could think of?

Why, you’d know what it’s like when the music video doesn’t match the song.

Boyfriend

This is the original video, made by Internet comedy and content collective loveliveserve. Big Time Rush’s “Boyfriend” provides big time laughs as the crew juxtaposes it with trap video tropes.

Or, this is the gritty Big Time Rush reboot we didn’t know we needed.

Somebody To Love

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Next on loveliveserve’s radar? Biebs, of course. Justin Bieber’s “Somebody To Love”, made squarely in his swoop cut days, makes absolutely zero sense when being performed by the dudes in this video. But it’s still not as weird as present day Justin Bieber.

Beautiful Soul

Jesse McCartney (the Paul McCartney to Justin Bieber’s John Lennon) provides the soundtrack for loveliveserve’s third mismatched video. Side question: Where are they getting all this money? Asking for… us! Why lie and say it’s for a friend? We want that money!

What Makes You Beautiful

Other content creators were inspired by loveliveserve’s shenanigans, and put their own spin on the concept. Here, Detricks World shows us that One Direction can actually travel multiple directions, if you put the right/wrong visuals over them.