Top 10 G Major/Scary Music Videos on Youtube

There is nothing wrong with your Youtube. Do not attempt to adjust the video settings. Supernatural forces are controlling your bandwidth. If they wish to make it sound sillier, they will reverse the sonic pitch. If they wish to make it more evil-sounding, they will speak in a sinister double-voice. They control the horizontal, they control the vertical... whatever that means. They can roll the image, make it flutter. They can invert the colours, making light dark and darkness bright. For the next few minutes or so – or until you get bored and watch something different – sit quietly and they will control all that you see and hear. I repeat: there is nothing wrong with your Youtube, internet connection, or flash player. You are about to participate in a messed-up adventure. You are about to experience the terror and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – scary/G major song videos.

Just for the record, I'm no musical expert, but I'm pretty sure that these types of videos aren't really in G major. It's just what some of them are called. Apparently the way they're made is by duplicating the tracks a whole lot and altering the pitch on each of them which changes the key and voices. I've spent way too much time watching all sorts of these videos and I've made my own personal list here of what I think are the ten best. So if you've got time to waste and if you didn't want to sleep tonight anyways, then go check out some of these.

10. Shia LaBeouf Motivational Speech (G Major)

I know, I kind of cheated here since this isn't really a music video (hence its low ranking on my list). But how can anyone not love the sight of a bearded, deranged Mr. Clean yelling at people to “just do it”? The messed-up voice(s) have the effect of making Shia appear to be less a motivational speaker and more like the devil on your shoulder tempting you to commit some kind of horrible sin. Is this what Jimmy Jones sounded like when he began passing out the Kool-Aid? To relive the nightmare, come hither: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9513E0ZKAs

9. Scary Rain

The original “Chocolate Rain” video is weird and unorthodox enough. But applying the “scary” treatment to it makes it downright hideous. Tay Zonday's voice truly becomes demonic and the piano riff sounds completely messed up, like something Willy Wonka's factory would play if it was flipped upside down and taken over by poltergeists. The note at the bottom of the screen should have said “**I move away from the mic to devour yet another child's soul.” However, Scary Rain is – unsurprisingly – just as repetitive and droning as the original version, thus ensuring that full viewings will cause viewers to gradually slip into insanity over the course of 4 minutes and 52 seconds. Not recommended for the weak-willed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shuIMPo5UzY

8. Universal Intro in G Major

We all know the Universal Studios theme/intro/logo thingee, you've probably seen it dozens of times throughout your movie-going life. This is the weird version. Space is now white. OK, whatever. We see the earth. Earth's water is now oil. You still following me? We hear the familiar music begin. It sounds a little high-pitched, but still recognizable. Earth's land now appears to be either one contiguous desert or a snow-covered tundra. The areas where there's supposed to be large cities are now black voids to another dimension. The music now takes a turn for the worse; the triumphant part (after the second set of drum beats) now sounds like a horrifying wailing of organs signalling that this is a post-apocalyptic world that you're looking at. I love the dark turn the theme song makes at the halfway point. It's as if the orchestra is seeing the horror before them and the music itself is now exclaiming “OH NOOOO!” Visions of the future here at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jesWfn3B9Hw

7. Scary Roll

This “scary” version of Rick Astley's “Never Gonna Give You Up” (AKA the rickroll) was actually the first scary/G major video I ever saw. And it sounds just as weird as ever. The impossibly twisted vocals give the lyrics a much more sinister meaning to it. You'll wish that bizarro-Rick was willing to give you up and desert you. The inverted colours common to these types of videos don't often add much, but I'd be lying if I said the white dancing shadows didn't make me chuckle a bit. Partake in the madness here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKY5vvDC7Bc

6. Coldplay – Viva La Vida in G Major

It's often the case that the more melodic the song, the better (or at least, the sillier) the g major video will be. Such is the case with Coldplay's “Viva La Vida”, a song that's driven by an orchestral string section. Everything about this song sounds so wrong, yet so...wrong. It's as if the song's narrator sold his soul in order to keep his kingdom, but he still lost it anyways. In this case, I think we're grateful that this guy isn't king anymore. Also, remember how the end “ooooo” part was the best part of the original song (and, of course, it was never played on the radios)? Well here it almost sounds kind of sad. Those poor unfortunate souls. Pay respects to them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u6BZDVN13w

5. G Major | Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know

You ever played with one of those little piano toys from the early 20^th century? They're small, like the one Schroeder would play in Peanuts shows. They're also notoriously badly tuned. This video sounds like it was played on one of those toy pianos if the wires were made of wood and arranged in the wrong order. What else can I say? The formerly harmonized vocals in the last chorus sound downright absurd. Gotye sounds like the troll under the bridge who's sad that the potheads he used to hang out with don't come by anymore. Even for people of such ill repute, I would advise staying away. (But seriously, go watch it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakXvgFPN2M

4. Ghostbusters Theme Song in G Major

Remember what I said about the “g major” treatment making things sound like organs? This is the prime example. As soon as the drum beat and the familiar synth melody starts up, you know something's gone horribly wrong – or horribly right! It's almost in the same key as the original song, but it's just slightly off and that's what makes it sound so unsettlingly funny. This is what would have happened if Gozer had won and the ghosts had taken over the world. Who you gonna call? An exorcist, quick! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxuYq2536s

3. scaryqueen

This is where crap gets real. The scary treatment on ABBA's classic hit “Dancing Queen”, seems almost to completely reverse the melody into something that's absolutely ghastly. The piano is now straight up horror music, there's no other way to describe it. And the voices. The voices! A choir of phantoms mourning their own non-existence is putting it lightly. This is the dance of the damned, straight from the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland. This is one dance you do not want to be the queen of (and no, Mel, it's not good to be the king either). Learn the steps here at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPlb6XMHvdo

2. Scary A-ha

You might be thinking “how could one possibly twist around A-ha's magnum opus, 'Take On Me'?” This is how. By slightly altering the pitch on the synths it truly does feel like you've been transported to some unholy place, like things are definitely not right. Just those first few keyboard/synth notes make me crack up every time because they sound so absurd. Then the double-voice enters... This one actually does sound possessed. I'm not kidding! One of the voices is the song's original vocals, but the other one is an unsettlingly deeper one that sings in some reverse harmony that sounds really disturbing and hilarious and disturbing at the same time. It turns out that the comic book world is a very eerie one indeed. Take on part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcskpB3pafA

1. I Would Scare 500 Miles

First off, just the title alone for this parody of The Proclaimers' “I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)” is classic enough. They're got the desire to do so, it seems. Here's another example of a scary/G major song's first opening chords being sufficiently messed up so as to cause me to giggle. Those desperate-sounding guitar chords, man. The vocals... they sound like five hundred spectres wailing at once... in a Scottish accent. They also make the lyrics sound much more insidious; would you want this thing coming home to you and falling down at your door? I wouldn't. The chords sound like malevolent, broken, inside-out punches to your kidneys. And lastly, there's the video. The video for the original song was silly enough – with the twins' blank, expressionless staring and their synchronized head bouncing – but here it's downright ridiculous. The inverted effects make their eyes look like white voids gazing directly into your very soul. Seeing this expressionless, (probably) sorrowful pair of eyes pan across the screen is just so absurd that I can't watch this video with a straight face. Instead I fall down at my floor in laughter. And that's why it's the best of all G major/scary music videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tna6fAzBddM