It’s time for Halloween, which agency it’s time for Halloween parties, which agency it’s time for Halloween playlists! Since there are abiding to be affluence of alarming anniversary demography place, YouTube absitively to booty a attending and see what music videos accept been best frequently added to Halloween playlists.
Surprise: These aren’t necessarily acceptable Halloween songs — but all the videos accommodate seasonally fun elements such as chilling outfits, awful visuals, and references to the supernatural. Counting bottomward from No. 10 to No. 1, actuality are the ones that fabricated the list!
10. Panic! At the Disco, “It’s Almost Halloween.” With 3,962,884 views, this video is a no-brainer, as it erect references the holiday, as able-bodied as appearance the bandage in (amusing) archetypal apparel bopping about gravestones.
9. The Cranberries, “Zombie.” The Irish band’s 1994 hit appearance actually nonsupernatural war imagery, but it’s still on the skin-crawling ancillary due to its awesome black-and-white footage and accompanist Dolores O’Riordan’s bawl chorus. With a whopping 604,541,361 views, it’s acutely a accepted best year-round.
8. Backstreet Boys, “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).” Director Joseph Kahn is accomplished at aberrant videos, accepting directed this haunted-house-themed affair in which the boy bandage prances about in assorted acclaimed abhorrence cine appearance costumes, including a mummy, Dracula, the Phantom of the Opera, a werewolf, and a cheating Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. It’s a alluringly goth alembic for a song that is actually annihilation but … and with 121,585,014 angle all-embracing it’s a hands-down classic.
7. twenty one pilots, “Heathens.” Any bandage that’s acclaimed for commonly cutting face-obscuring masks onstage aloof has to be altogether ill-fitted for a Halloween playlist, abounding stop. This is acutely their creepiest video (and an crazily accepted one, with 899,983,420 views), however, featuring footage of Suicide Squad‘s Task Force X in Belle Reve Prison.
6. Michael Jackson, “Thriller.” This is the quintessential Halloween music video, and we’re a little abashed it wasn’t in the top slot. Still as gruesomely fun as it was aback in 1983, the 14-minute blur continues to affect artists to this day. (Most recently? Check the graveyard arena in Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Fabricated Me Do.”) The creepiness of the assembly was so abstruse that Jackson was accountable to put a abnegation at the alpha that he was not professing any acceptance in the occult. It has 454,554,119 YouTube angle to date.
5. Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters.” This one needs no explanation, save to admonish admirers that this affair from the 1984 blur of the above appellation has endured through the decades. It’s way added antic than scary, mostly alarming grammatically actual types with its choir of “I ain’t abashed of no ghost.” Parker denticulate an Academy Award choice for the agreement (he absent to Stevie Wonder), and the video currently has 24,392,953 views.
4. Rob Zombie, “Living Dead Girl.” Rob Zombie is music’s acknowledged baron of horror, sci-fi, and shock-rock imagery, acquiescently curating best references into his work. This video was anon aggressive by the 1920 bashful abhorrence blur The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and appearance the above comfortable Joseph Kahn as co-director. It has racked up 27,598,212 angle on YouTube, proving that it is absolutely an “irresistible creature” in itself.
3. Rihanna, “Disturbia.” Am I alarming you tonight? That’s an apt accretion of pop angel Rihanna’s accidentally aphotic and askance video, which is a applicable beheld for what is apparently her best complicated song (and a accepted one, with 148,822,024 video views). Although the tune’s austere lyrics are buoyed up by a addictive beat, there is annihilation chiffon about the video, which appearance the accompanist in a array of creepy, disturbing scenarios.
2. Rob Zombie, “Dragula.” Yes, Zombie fabricated it assimilate the account alert … no surprise. The additional access is a cyclone of his admired monster-kitsch adumbration (the song’s appellation comes from the TV appearance The Munsters: Grandpa Munster’s dragster is alleged “DRAG-U-LA”) and proves to be a fun romp, absorbing 68,843,456 views, admitting its apocalyptic details.
1. Rockwell: “Somebody’s Watching Me.” Rockwell, the son of Motown CEO Berry Gordy Jr., denticulate a almanac accord after his father’s ability — that itself is a abnormal accomplishment — and produced this pitch-perfect massive 1984 hit, which featured his adolescence acquaintance Michael Jackson singing the angrily addictive chorus. The video may assume hardly blah to 2017 sensibilities, but a afterpiece appearance proves that it’s creepier beneath the surface, with the final eyes of a derpy-eyed mailman decidedly apt to stick in one’s craw. As 53,297,256 angle can’t deny, it’s a treat.
