Are there any “go-to” English music videos that you were shown while learning English in school?

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1. I suppose it’ll depend on the time period and the teacher’s taste (and music knowledge). Back in the dark ages, my English teacher was a fan of Oasis, and made the whole class sing along to Wonderwall … while being incapable of explaining to us what a Wonderwall even was. Can’t listen to that song now without thinking about it (I’m still not clear on the wonderwall concept). The teacher next door put a stop to it when we attempted to sing Zombie by the Cranberries.

   I’ve recommended Stromae (among other artists) myself to people I’ve tutored in French.

2. These would be my 2 go-to’s, really helped to give me a good understanding of the nuances of the language

   https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8?si=1jPLPxdU-YsBOn5q

   https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=5JH3HUYeOtnV6QWK

3. No, but movies: Forest Gump, Bowling for Columbine (yes really), and the modern Romeo+Juliet with Leo DiCap, often the main “work of Shakespeare” you’re exposed to.

   People studying French here are also shown Stromae. Us German-minded folks were shown [this shit](https://youtu.be/39UDZMgPg5k?si=bHT_CGE2dXm5e14B) and of course, Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo.

4. In Austria, we watched a couple of movies in English in the last lessons before summer vacation would start, like Pulp Fiction or something, but that was after already having English lessons for years and not part of the regular curriculum.

   In the beginning, we had some songs and videos especially produced to go along the English textbooks we had, so nothing anyone that did not have these books would recognize.

   For some lessons, we had native speakers from the US or the UK come in, and we‘d from time to time watch some wierd or funny advertisements from these countries together, which was always a blast.

   But I can confirm that we also watched stromae during our French lessons, so I guess that‘s a universal constant.

5. I pretty much only remember [lemon tree](https://youtu.be/wCQfkEkePx8). We did watch a lot of Mr.Bean too

6. I guess it depends on the teacher. My english teacher was fan of beatles and monty python.

7. i remember we used to watch Friends and for songs usually it was the students bringing their own songs (+stuff by Beatles, Lennon or rock songs in general) and made “fill the gaps” exercises

8. I can’t think of any English ones, but our German teacher showed us Rammstein music videos.

   Might just have been because she was a fan, but their songs are quite easy to understand and Du Hast is just a good example of how grammar works.