List of one-shot music videos

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This is a list of one-shot music videos filmed in one long take by a single camera, or manufactured to give the impression it was. One of the most famous music video directors for this genre is Michel Gondry, who has done many of his videos in this style.

Examples[]

Artist	Song	Year	Note
Shakatak	Down On The Street	1984
Split Enz	Message to My Girl	1984
Steve Perry	Foolish Heart	1984
Tommy Shaw	Girls With Guns	1984
Psychedelic Furs	Angels Don't Cry	1986
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush	Don't Give Up	1986
The Replacements	Bastards Of Young	1986
Janet Jackson	When I Think Of You	1986
Mental as Anything	He's Just No Good For You	1987
Bruce Springsteen	Brilliant Disguise	1987
Paco	Amor de mis Amores	1988	(directed by )
The Grapes of Wrath	All the Things I Wasn't	1989
Pixies	Velouria	1990
Vaya Con Dios	Nah Neh Nah	1990
Sinéad O'Connor	Nothing Compares 2 U	1990
Massive Attack	Unfinished Sympathy	1991	(directed by Baillie Walsh)
Guns N' Roses	Garden of Eden	1992	(directed by Andy Morahan)
Thalía	Love	1992	(2 versions)
Toni Braxton	Another Sad Love Song	1993	(directed by Antoine Fuqua)
Janet Jackson	That's the Way Love Goes	1993	(One Take Version)
You Am I	Berlin Chair	1994
Die Krupps	To The Hilt	1994
Gin Blossoms	Allison Road	1994	(directed by Sean Alquist)
Lisa Loeb	Stay (I Missed You)	1994	(directed by Ethan Hawke)
Lucas	Lucas with the Lid Off	1994
Massive Attack	Protection	1994
Nine Inch Nails	March of the Pigs	1994
Tom Petty	You Don't Know How It Feels	1994	(directed by Phil Joanou)
Weezer	"Undone - The Sweater Song"	1994	(directed by Spike Jonze)
Lords of the Underground	Neva Faded	1995
Paulina Rubio	Te Daría Mi Vida	1995	(directed by Carlos Marcovich)
Spirit of the West	Tell Me What I Think	1995	(directed by Morris Panych)
Wax	California	1995	(directed by Spike Jonze)
Alanis Morissette	Head Over Feet	1996	(directed by Michele Laurita and Alanis Morissette)
Cibo Matto	Sugar Water	1996	two continuous shots playing simultaneously)
Daft Punk	Fresh	1996
Garbage	Milk	1996
2Pac	Made Niggaz	1996	(360 Version)
Madonna	Love Don't Live Here Anymore	1996	(directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino)
Tracy Bonham	Mother Mother	1996	(directed by Jake Scott)
Spice Girls	Wannabe	1996	(directed by Johan Camitz)
Ben Folds Five	Kate	1997
Björk	Hunter	1997
Erykah Badu	Otherside of the Game	1997
Fiona Apple	Never Is a Promise	1997
Green Day	Redundant	1997
Mashina Vremeni	Он был старше её (He was older than she)	1997
Michael Penn	Try	1997	(directed by Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Tea Party	Babylon	1997
Tic Tac Toe		1997
Eagle-Eye Cherry	Save Tonight	1997
A Tribe Called Quest	Find A Way	1998
Die Ärzte	Rebell	1998
Radiohead	No Surprises	1998
Shakira	Tú	1998
TISM	Thunderbirds are Coming Out	1998
Xzibit	What U See Is What U Get	1998
Los Tres		1999
Semisonic	Closing Time	1999	(two continuous shots playing simultaneously)
Sky	Some Kinda Wonderful	1999
Smashing Pumpkins	Ava Adore	1999
Coldplay	Yellow	2000
D'Angelo	Untitled (How Does It Feel)	2000
Destiny's Child	Emotion	2001	(three continuous shots playing simultaneously)
Elton John	I Want Love	2001
Green Day	Macy's Day Parade	2001
Hawksley Workman		2001
Jay-Z	Girls, Girls, Girls	2001
R.E.M.	Imitation Of Life	2001
Radiohead	Knives Out	2001
Kylie Minogue	Come into My World	2002
Hikaru Utada	Hikari	2002
Will Young with Gareth Gates	The Long and Winding Road	2002
Ayumi Hamasaki	Daybreak	2003
Ayumi Hamasaki	Heaven	2003
Beginner	Fäule	2003
Christina Aguilera	The Voice Within	2003
Shania Twain	When You Kiss Me	2003	(One Take version)
Will Young	Leave Right Now	2003
Busted	Crashed The Wedding	2004
George Michael	Flawless (Go to the City)	2004
Jorge Drexler		2004
Missy Higgins	The Special Two	2004
Architecture in Helsinki		2005
Jack Johnson	Sitting, Waiting, Wishing	2005
OK Go	A Million Ways	2005
The White Stripes	The Denial Twist	2005
Wir sind Helden		2005	(forwards and backwards)
James Blunt	You're Beautiful	2005
Dendemann	3½ Minuten	2006
Dilated Peoples	Back Again	2006
Gary Jules	Mad World	2006
Gimma	Superschwiizer	2006
OK Go	Here It Goes Again	2006
The Rumble Strips	Motorcycle	2006
Sandi Thom	I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)	2006
Sportfreunde Stiller		2006
Feist	1234	2007
Feist	My Moon My Man	2007
Jack Peñate	Second, Minute or Hour	2007
Kaiser Chiefs	Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning)	2007
Linkin Park	Bleed It Out	2007
The Matches	Salty Eyes	2007
Melanie C	The Moment You Believe	2007
Panda	Los Malaventurados No Lloran	2007
Paul Kelly	God Told Me To	2007	(Directed by Natasha Pinkus)
Snow Patrol	Open Your Eyes	2007
Spoon	The Underdog	2007
The Weakerthans	Civil Twilight	2007
Basia Bulat	In The Night	2008	(directed and produced by Anthony Seck)
Faker		2008
Dana Nalbaru		2008
Feist	I Feel It All	2008
Gigi	11 Januari	2008
Goldfrapp	Happiness	2008
Janet Jackson	Rock with U	2008
The Last Shadow Puppets	Standing Next to Me	2008
Lil Wayne	A Milli	2008
Sara Bareilles	Gravity	2008
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk	2008
Vampire Weekend	Oxford Comma	2008
The Vines	He's a Rocker	2008
Jovanotti	Mezzogiorno	2009
Arctic Monkeys	Cornerstone	2009
Electric Indian	Kids These Days	2009
	"Baby Baby Baby"	2009
Mayer Hawthorne	Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'	2009
Metric	Gimme Sympathy	2009
Myriam Fares		2009
OK Go	WTF?	2009
Perfume	I still love U	2009
Sarah Blasko	We Won't Run	2009
Super Junior	It's You	2009
T2	Malu Malu Dong	2009
Air	So Light Is Her Footfall	2010
Cosmo Jarvis		2010
Die Roten Punkte		2010
Die Roten Punkte		2010
Erykah Badu	Window Seat	2010
Francis and the Lights		2010
Grace Potter	Something That I Want	2010	(from the movie Tangled)
I Was a Teenage Anarchist	Against Me!	2010
J. Cole	Who Dat	2010
Janelle Monáe	Cold War	2010
Kelis	Brave	2010
Liam Frost		2010
Lights	Second Go	2010
Marina and the Diamonds	I Am Not a Robot	2010	(LA Version) (from 00:05 and onwards)
OK Go	White Knuckles	2010
Pablo Alborán	Solamente Tú	2010
Säkert		2010
Hikaru Utada	Goodbye Happiness	2010
Josh Pyke Featuring Katy Steele	Punch In The Heart	2011	(Two Continuous Shots Playing Simultaneously In E Flat Minor)
A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade	Oração	2011
AKB48	Dakishimecha Ikenai	2011
Anneke van Giersbergen	Feel Alive	2011
Big Bang	Love Song	2011
Birdy	Skinny Love	2011	(One Take version)
The Black Keys	Lonely Boy	2011
Bruno Mars	The Lazy Song	2011	(Official version)
Childish Gambino	Freaks and Geeks	2011
Enrique Iglesias	Ayer	2011
Knifeworld	In A Foreign Way	2011
Nerina Pallot	Put Your Hands Up	2011
Robyn	Call Your Girlfriend	2011
Air Dubai feat. Patricia Lynn	Warning"	2012
Dappy	Good Intentions	2012
Jessie Ware	Wildest Moments	2012
McFly	Love Is Easy	2012
The Mowgli's	San Francisco	2012
Nogizaka46	Gūzen o Iiwake ni Shite	2012
The Pierces		2012
Scissor Sisters	Let's Have a Kiki	2012
Taylor Swift	We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together	2012
Brendan Maclean	Stupid	2013
Brendan Maclean	Winner	2013
Chris Brown	Fine China	2013	(One Take version)
EXO	Growl	2013
G-Eazy	Been On	2013
IU	Friday	2013
LiLi Roquelin	The Only One	2013
Lorde	Tennis Court	2013
Miley Cyrus	Wrecking Ball	2013	(Director's Cut version)
Panic! at the Disco	Girls / Girls / Boys	2013
Mel B	For Once in My Life	2013
Pharrell Williams	Happy	2013	(all versions except official edit)
Pusha T	Nosetalgia	2013
Sam Tsui	Make It Up"	2013
Violent Soho	Covered in Chrome	2013
Skating Polly	Blue Obvious	2013
Phosphorescent	Song for Zula	2013
Bush	The Only Way Out	2014
clipping.	Work Work	2014
FKA twigs	Two Weeks	2014
Jane Zhang	我是我的 (I Am Mine)	2014
Kaiser Chiefs	Coming Home	2014
Kiesza	Hideaway	2014
Klangkarussell	All Eyes On You	2014
Lights	Up We Go	2014
Metronomy	Love Letters	2014
OK Go	I Won't Let You Down	2014
OK Go	The Writing's on the Wall	2014
Sia	Chandelier	2014	(Alternative version)
Super Junior	This Is Love[1]	2014
TVXQ	Spellbound	2014
Violent Soho	Saramona Said	2014
Meg Mac	Roll Up Your Sleeves	2014	(Australian Version)
Wankelmut feat.	Wasted So Much Time	2014
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Tacky	2014
Wiz Khalifa	We Dem Boyz	2014
Olly Murs	Seasons	2015
5'nizza	I Believe in You	2015
AURORA	Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)	2015
Avicii	Waiting for Love	2015	(360 Version)
Between the Buried and Me		2015
Dil Dhadakne Do	Gallan Goodiyaan	2015
The Dodos	Competition	2015
Gwen Stefani	Used to Love You	2015
Highly Suspect	Lydia	2015
Marian Hill	One Time	2015
Skepta	Nasty	2015
The Social Experiment	Sunday Candy	2015
Julien Baker	Sprained Ankle	2015
Jess Glynne	Take Me Home	2015	(One Take Version)
Avatar (band)	The Eagle Has Landed	2016
BTS	Save Me	2016
The Chemical Brothers		2016
Mike Posner	I Took a Pill in Ibiza	2016	(Original version)
Mischief Brew	Squatter Envy	2016
NAVI	Historyja majho žyccia	2016
FEMM (duo)	Whiplash	2016
Samra	Miracle	2016
Tove Lo	True Disaster	2016
		2017
Arcade Fire	Creature Comfort	2017
Bruno Mars	That's What I Like	2017
Danielle Bregoli	These Heaux	2017
Cavetown	Lemon Boy	2017
Eamon	I Got Soul	2017
Fozzy	Judas	2017	(based upon Guns N' Roses' Garden of Eden)
Fozzy	Painless	2017
Haim	Want You Back	2017
LANY	Super Far	2017
Lauv	Paris in the Rain	2017
Liam Payne feat. Quavo	Strip That Down (Dance Video)	2017
	La vie est belle	2017
Gotch	Taxi Driver	2017
Mondo Grosso feat. Hikari Mitsushima	Labyrinth	2017
Orelsan	Basique	2017
Sabrina Carpenter	Thumbs	2017
Selena Gomez feat. Gucci Mane	Fetish (Audio Video)	2017
Snakehips feat. MØ	Don't Leave (Lyric Video)	2017
SOPHIE		2017
Superfruit	How Ya Feeling	2017
Bleachers	I Miss Those Days	2017
[ja]	ナウオアネバー (Now or Never)	2017	Shot entirely in reverse, evidently by passing traffic.[2]
Benny Blanco & Calvin Harris	I Found You	2018
Maroon 5 & Cardi B	Girls Like You	2018	(Including The American Comedian Cameo Ellen DeGeneres)
Betty Who	Ignore Me	2018
Billie Eilish	when the party's over	2018
Gesu no Kiwami Otome	Onna wa Kawaru	2018
Halsey	Sorry	2018
Justin Timberlake	Say Something ft Chris Stapleton	2018
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu	Kimino Mikata	2018
Mojo Juju	Native Tongue	2018
STU48	Kaze wo Matsu	2018
	Disaster (Is What We're After)	2018	Starring Iggy Pop
Męskie Granie	Początek	2018
Cobi		2018
Benny blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez, J Balvin	I Can't Get Enough	2019
Birds of Tokyo	Good Lord (song)	2019
Jessica Mauboy	Little Things (Jessica Mauboy song)	2019
Bleached	Shitty Ballet	2019
Gesu no Kiwami Otome	Dakedo Boku wa	2019
Karen O & Danger Mouse	Woman	2019	(directed by Spike Jonze, Live on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”)
	The Drive	2019
Steam Powered Giraffe	Hot on the Trail	2019
Maroon 5	Memories	2019
The Weeknd	Heartless	2019	(Live on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”)
Jackson Wang		2019
Scarlxrd		2019
LANY	Thick and Thin	2019
Daisy the Great	I'm Fine	2019
Naif & Indra Lesmana	Selama Ada Cinta	2019	(directed by Budi Cuprit, recorded in 2016)
Nightly	Twenty Something	2019
Dance Gavin Dance	Prisoner	2020
	Catch Me If You Can	2020
Cher Lloyd	Lost	2020
Victoria	Tears Getting Sober	2020
Scarlxrd		2020
The Chicks	Sleep at Night	2020
Sia	Together	2020
Haim		2020
Against The Current		2020
	Nobody's Fault	2020
	Mélancolie Autotunée 5	2020
Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber	Monster	2020
MiyaGi & Andy Panda	Там ревели горы	2020	Shot entirely on GoPro camera
MiyaGi & Andy Panda		2020
MiyaGi & Andy Panda	Мало нам	2020	Shot entirely on GoPro camera
Ashe & FINNEAS	Till Forever Falls Apart	2021
Giring Ganesha		2021
Coldplay	Higher Power	2021	(Official Audio // Extraterrestrail Transmission)
Hollow States	I'll Leave	2021	(Backwards Edition)
Los Fastidios	Pour La Liberté	2021	(Official Videoclip)
FLOW	Dice	2021	(1発撮りバージョン)
[1] & Qaziso ft. Amir Azimi	Migorizi	2022	(Directed by: [2] & Amir Pakdel)

Videos seemingly shot in one take[]

• John Fogerty - "The Old Man Down The Road", 1985

Contains several edits disguised by dissolves, particularly when the camera is pointing down at the ground and the dissolves are less noticeable due to motion blur.

• U2 - "Numb", 1993

The video was spliced together from two separate takes. The cut between the two happens when the camera turns away from the face of guitarist, and singer on this track, The Edge and the cut was hidden by having smoke blowing in from the side of the frame.

• Primus - "Mr.Krinkle", 1993

One Shutter Camera Cut At 5:26 In The End Of The Video

• Jamiroquai - "Virtual Insanity", 1996

The video contains several cuts when the camera tilts down, transitioning into another shot when it tilts up again.

• The Verve - "Bitter Sweet Symphony", 1997

Although often cited as an example of a one shot video, it actually contains several cuts to reverse angles and close ups and is not one long take. There are in fact about 50 cuts in the video.

• U2 - "Sweetest Thing", 1998

In a Channel 4, documentary discussing the Greatest Pop Videos of all time, the director Kevin Godley revealed that it was filmed in 3 shots, each shot transition hidden by a lens flare.^[3]

• Kylie Minogue - "Love at First Sight", 2002

The video editing process is the same as Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai.

• The Chemical Brothers - "Star Guitar", 2002

The music video, directed by Michel Gondry, features a continuous shot filmed.

• The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army", 2003

The Music Video Is One Seemingly Continuous Shot Through A Kaleidoscopic Tunnel Of Mirrored Black White And Red Triangles.

• Miley Cyrus - "Start All Over", 2007

At The End Of The Music Video It Has Four Cuts.

• Khalil Fong - "紅豆 (Red Beans)", 2009

Hidden cuts during camera moves.

• MIKA - "Blame it on the Girls", 2009

Hidden cuts from swift camera movement.

• OK Go - "This Too Shall Pass", 2010 - Rube Goldberg Machine video

In interviews, band member Damian Kulash and visual designer Hector Alvarez both admit to a cut at 2:27 when the curtain opens.^[4]

• LCD Soundsystem - "Drunk Girls", 2010

The video is a long take until near the end, when a few cuts are introduced.

• Jessie J - "Who You Are", 2011

There are several cuts at the end of this video, starting at 3 minutes.

• Kanye West - "Mercy", 2012

The video is made of multiple long takes superimposed over one another

• One Direction - "You & I", 2014

The video was actually stitched from multiple takes to create the illusion of a single, continuous shot.

• Coldplay - "A Sky Full of Stars", 2014

The Video Has Fourteen Cuts On The Video

• Sia - "Big Girls Cry", 2014

The Video Is Is One Shot Is By The American Dancer Maddie Ziegler.

• Ariana Grande - "One Last Time", 2015

The video contains multiple cuts, while the screen fades to black.

• Maroon 5 - "This Summer's Gonna Hurt", 2015

Co-director Travis Schneider stated in an interview that although the video was planned to be one shot, there is one cut in the video.

• Era Istrefi - "Bonbon", 2016

There are several cuts in the video, starting from 2:25 to the end.

• Ok Go - "Upside Down & Inside Out", 2016

Though the video, involving the band using parabolic flight from reduced gravity aircraft to simulate micro-gravity, is from one long 40-45 minute shot, periods when the band is not in micro-gravity were trimmed from the final product.

• OK Go - ""The One Moment"", 2016

The video drastically slows down playback of about 4.2 seconds of actions that take place in real-time. However, to capture the amount of action, the band had to use multiple high-speed cameras on the same mounted system, their respective footage stitched together to compose the final video.

• Jax Jones - "You Don't Know Me", 2017

The video contains cut at 1:35, also several cuts near the end of the video.

• Dua Lipa - "IDGAF", 2018

The video editing process is the same as Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai and Love at First Sight by Kylie Minogue.

• George Ezra - "Shotgun", 2018

The Video Is One Shot Of George Ezra Going Round In Circles,

• Tish - "Try to C", 2019

One Cut at 2:28.

• Sam Fischer - "This City", 2019

The Video Is One Shot Recorded In 2017 Released January 18 2018 December 13 2019 (Re Released)

• Birds of Tokyo - "Two of Us",2020

One Shutter Camera Cut At 0:02 In The Beginning Of The Video

• AJR (band) - "Bang!",2020

The Camera Moves Forwards 3 Times And Has 9 Cuts On This Video

• Tame Impala - "Lost in Yesterday", 2020^[5]

One cut for each "loop" around the wedding reception.

• Billie Eilish - "Therefore I Am", 2020

The video contains a black cut at 2:01.

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