The cheerleaders were also mad basic, and if you’re going to have a video start with them, they had at least better be coordinated.īut points were given for the players wearing Converse shoes, maintaining hair throughout all of that action and Blow rapping straight facts about the history of the game.
Just what’s the truth? Kurtis, even you looked confused.
You’ve got dunking in the sky, but the game is being played at night. This is a really violent brawl, and we couldn’t identify anything that happened to warrant all that. Kurtis, Kurtis, Kurtis, why were your teammates randomly fighting in the middle of the game? More importantly, why did they decide that instead of your standard square up, they were going to pick kung fu as their fighting technique of choice? Like one of these dudes brought out nunchucks and another had a stick. We have questions, like tons, about why such a pristine court is just chilling in a warehouse. Then we come to find out that Jackson is later in the video playing in the 5-on-5 game on that random court inside the warehouse. You had to know that eventually both of the most famous people with the MJ initials would work together, and look at God not disappointing.
He played a short game of H-O-R-S-E against the best basketball player in the world, Michael Jordan, and then he tried to teach Jordan how to dance. Jackson made a whole video playing basketball in his dress shoes. Look, if Michael Jackson can play basketball against Michael Jordan, Space Jam could’ve come up with something. Otherwise, we’d have a music video of referees and dancers twerking and break-dancing. The sports portion of the video comes exclusively from snippets of the movie. If we’re keeping it a stack, the song is kind of riding on the movie’s coattails.
Just how does the song named after the movie not have a better video? And that was one of the reasons “Space Jam” received such a low ranking.Ĭrumping on a basketball court and doing a little shoulder shake doesn’t make for a sports-themed music video. We wish somebody would tell us Space Jam had a better video than “Hit ‘Em High.” We would hee-hee and keke like we’ve never done so before in our lives. Yes, “Best I Ever Had” was hot when it came out, but even the actresses in the video said, “All you taught us how to do was stretch.” That “Used to This” kind of took from “Best I Ever Had’s” example of having women in uniforms stretching but not actually playing is the only reason it didn’t come in dead last on this list. We don’t have to say too much for this song.
Other contributing factors were considered for where songs should be placed.īoth Future and Drake are up there in terms of artists who’ve been putting out hits consistently over the past few years (They have a whole album together, and Future gave us our national anthem, “March Madness.”) That being said, “Used to This” took the last spot because it was essentially “Best I Ever Had.” The only difference was the women who were dressed like they were about to play soccer instead of basketball, and slipping on a jersey and having women stretch for three minutes does not make for a strong sports-themed video. The list ultimately was decided and ranked on two major factors: song popularity/relevance and the quality of the sports theme acted out in the video. Thanks to sports/culture writer Justin Tinsley, strategic analyst Brittany Grant, associate video producer Morgan Moody and audience development editor Marcus Matthews, here’s what we came up with after two days of discussion. But that got a few of us at The Undefeated thinking about what would rank as the best sports-themed music video and then what would the rest of the list look like. On Wednesday, Space Jam celebrated its 21st birthday, and from that movie we were blessed with some memorable sports-themed music videos. These aren’t videos in which the artist is just wearing a jersey, these are the videos in which a sport is being played. What are the best sports-themed music videos ever created? A simple question, but one that appeared to go unanswered when doing a casual stroll of the internet.