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** "Sk8er Boi" ''''Lyrics'''': A popularity-focused girl misses her chance to be with a boy who later became a success because her friends thought he was uncool, and the singer is happy she took a chance on him instead. '''Video''': Avril and her friends set up an impromptu concert in the middle of the street, attracting the attention of the police at the end. Neither the girl nor the skater boy in question appear in the video.

** "Sk8er Boi" Lyrics: A popularity-focused girl misses her chance to be with a boy who later became a success because her friends thought he was uncool, and the singer is happy she took a chance on him instead.
Video: Avril and her friends set up an impromptu concert in the middle of the street, attracting the attention of the police at the end. Neither the girl nor the skater boy in question appear in the video.

** "Sk8er Boi" Lyrics: A popularity-focused girl misses her chance to be with a boy who later became a success because her friends thought he was uncool, and the singer is happy she took a chance on him instead. Video: Avril and her friends set up an impromptu concert in the middle of the street, attracting the attention of the police at the end. Neither the girl nor the skater boy in question appear in the video.

* Music/BarenakedLadies' cover video for [[Music/BruceCockburn "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"]]. The song, originally written by Bruce Cockburn, contrasts new love with the (then-probable) Cold War. The video is about two women (who may or may not be lovers) running across Scarborough to get to a meet-and-greet with the band, who are driving through the city making all kinds of [[CanadaEh joking references to Canadian life]].

* The Polish band Shannon's music video of the Breton folk song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G64FQ1FywU Tri Martolod]], which is about three Breton fishermen who sail to [[CanadaEh Newfoundland]], consists of ... a random string of Celtic and Medieval cliches? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuBnZrLbq0 Nolwenn Leroy's version]] is not much better, being a video about children lost in the woods...

* Music/TheLindaLindas: Their song "Talking To Myself" is about obsessive thoughts with a touch of GoMadFromTheIsolation. The video was inspired by the [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E6LivingDoll "Living Doll" episode]] of ''Series/TheTwilightZone''. Four dolls become sentient, and [[VengefulAbandonedToy angry about being excluded from band practice]] take their anger out on the band members. The violence is played for laughs.

* Music/TheLindaLindas: Their song "Talking To Myself" is about obsessive thoughts with a touch of GoMadFromTheIsolation. The video was inspired by the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll "Living Doll" episode]] of ''Series/TheTwilightZone''. Four dolls become sentient, and [[VengefulAbandonedToy angry about being excluded from band practice]] take their anger out on the band members. The violence is played for laughs.

** "California Gurls". The song is an anthem to the beautiful ladies of California. The video features Katy in [[LevelAte Candyfornia]], complete with a [[MemeticOutfit matching dress]].

** And if anyone can see the connection between [[StalkerWithACrush the lyrics]] [[IntercourseWithYou of "Sugar We're Going Down"]] and human-deer hybrids, that would seriously en-[[JustForPun deer]] him/her to us.

** "The Power of Love", a.k.a. "IntercourseWithYou: The Song". The music video would otherwise be a standard "band plays in club" music video... but it also has a framing device with [[Film/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] parking the Delorean at a club where the band is playing, and then letting a pair of clubgoers drive it... which leads to them travelling in time (off-screen) and returning at the end of the video.

** If anyone is willing to explain what [[LongTitle "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me"]] has to do with ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire hunting]]'', please enlighten us.

** "Music/BestFriend" is all about the singer vowing to be a true friend to the listener, who will support and comfort them no matter how bad things get. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndzln1UEyf0 video]] is about a crazy cannibal supermodel [[YouAreWhoYouEat devouring her fellow models to appropriate their best traits and make herself look better]]. [[spoiler: And then she gets a KarmicDeath when [[SpitOutAShoe she partially barfs up her last victim's dress on the runway]], and chokes to death.]]

* Cracker's "Low" is basically a LoveIsADrug song. The video, however, is mainly about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc their frontman boxing Sandra Bernhard]]... [[spoiler:and losing pretty badly]]. It ''could'' be some sort of metaphor about dysfunctional relationships, mind you.

** "Make Up Your Mind" is about a man telling his girlfriend that they have to patch up their differences if they want to maintain their sanity. The music video is about a bride who begins having second thoughts as she's walking down the aisle at her wedding, starts making out with several men in the aisles and eventually [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]] by jumping off a nearby cliff as the wedding party watches.
** The lyrics for "Santa Monica" are about a man who watches as his girlfriend drives him to the boiling point (including pouring gasoline on his bed and lying about everything) before breaking up with him and leaving for Santa Monica. The music video not only gender-flips the perspective (it follows the girlfriend instead), but the narrative is completely different. The girlfriend loves her boyfriend but doesn't tell him where she's going, moves to Santa Monica and becomes a model before being driven to prostitution and having a breakdown (while her boyfriend doesn't feel guilted and moves on with his life), then moves back and goes to reconcile with him as the video ends.

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* Music/BritneySpears: "Break the Ice" has a sci-fi {{animesque}} music video inspired by ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'', which has nothing to do with the love song (and IntercourseWithYou-laden) lyrics of the song.

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->After all, what image best fits a song about inner strength than a child running for his life?
-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''' on Music/DavidGuetta ft. Music/{{Sia}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfuAukYTKg "Titanium"]]