A while back I wrote about how music videos improve the Internet, because all the evil comments in existence can't cancel out one awesome song. Good music is a thought transfusion, wirelessly injecting moods from another brain into yours. It's a sonic emotional override, hacking the brain by directly accessing the pattern-recognition systems which make up our personality the same way pipes and wires make up an engine.

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"I am the pinnacle of evolution and I listen to Justin Bieber."

For years major music-releases were controlled by the sort of people who think "target demographics" is a phrase you can use and still count as human. It doesn't matter if you have a tween-pop single or a metallic endoskeleton: When you're reducing entire swathes of the population to numbered metrics, you're not someone who can speak to the soul. But modern technology means anyone can make a music video and share it with the world. The following five music videos would have been destroyed by production committees, and only exist because the Internet is a thing -- and the world is better for it.