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* Music/{{BTS}}' music videos within the Music/BTSUniverse rarely are directly about the topic of the songs, though they do somewhat connect thematically and emotionally to the theme of its respective album while sticking to the main story of the seven boys:

* Music/{{BTS}}' music videos within the Music/BTSUniverse rarely are directly about the topic of the songs, though they do somewhat connect thematically and emotionally while sticking to the main story of the seven boys:

* Music/OfMonstersAndMen's ''LittleTalks'' is either about a woman speaking with her husband's ghost. The song is about five {{Steampunk}} explorers who discover a goddess who fights monsters for them.

* "The Perfect Drug" by Music/NineInchNails is a mix of ObsessionSong and LoveIsADrug, with the theme of losing yourself. The [[SurrealMusicVideo music video]] is about Trent Reznor as a man mourning his dead son and going into an absinthe-induced breakdown, all taking place in an Edwardian setting.

* Music/AsianKungFuGeneration's "''Kimi No Machi Made''" is about a guy who wants to fly over to his lover's town like a bird. The music video, on the other hand, is about a synchronized swimming duo persevering despite [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments getting attacked by a giant lobster in the middle of a competition]].

* "The Perfect Drug" by Music/NineInchNails is a mix of ObsessionSong and LoveIsADrug. The [[SurrealMusicVideo music video]] is about Trent Reznor as a man mourning his dead son and going into an absinthe-induced breakdown, all taking place in an Edwardian setting.

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

* Music/{{Cake}}:
** "Love You Madly" depicts an ''Series/IronChef''-style cooking contest.
** "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" shows the reactions of people listening to the song on headphones.

** "Keep a Lid on Things": A CallAndResponseSong where the singer asks a number of questions to a second person ("Who put your granny in the granny house?[=/=]Who put whitey in the White House?"), while also asking them to keep their responses to themselves. The music video is... not that. Lead singer Brad Roberts is a human-like robot being piloted by a miniature version of himself. When the Brad-Robot's battery runs low, the miniature version must fly out in a jetpack and secure a 9-volt replacement, moving past other fallen "robots" (the other band members) on his way. Upon replacing the battery, all of the band member "robots" get back up and continuing walking awkwardly down the street.

* Music/CrashTestDummies' cover of "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" is about a martyr in Italy who discredits the Vatican by coming into town and spreading wealth and generosity around, which eventually results in him being crucified on television. The music video (a tie-in to ''Film/DumbAndDumber'') follows Jeff Daniels' Harry, who's visiting Canada, stopping a robbery at a church and getting unfairly blamed for it. He then gets locked up and tried in court before being visited by an angel and hanged (and falling to the ground unhurt before fleeing the crowd). Notably, this mismatch is highlighted in the video - guest vocalist Ellen Reid sings "Peter Pumpkinhead was too good, had him nailed to a chunk of wood" before panning the camera over from the tied-up Harry to a noose.

* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, "Tonight Tonight". The video is essentially a shot-for-shot remake of the 1902 sci-fi short ''Film/ATripToTheMoon''.

* In Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompevuR1644&list=PLjACqN5i5sDWjx8wkdUyCl4MjctV4SE6o Lift]]," the lyrics depict someone struggling to articulate both enthusiasm for and anxieties about their romantic relationship. The video follows a MadDreamer prisoner undergoing psychiatric evaluation. In a bit of LampshadeHanging, the psychologists transcribe the lyrics as his speech, and treat it in-universe as the rantings of a TalkativeLoon.
* ''Music/FosterThePeople'' have three infamous songs where the videos do ''not'' mesh well with the band's NiceGuy motif or their sweet lyrics.
** "Don't Stop" is about [[AChildShallLeadThem what a child would do if he ruled the world]]; the video involves a con man [[PaperThinDisguise posing as a driving instructor with a fake mustache]] (Mark (Foster)) who fights with his student (Gabourey Sidibe), causing them to drive all over sidewalks and through buckets of paint, attracting the attention of police officers (Mark (Pontius) and Cubbie) who are after the con man and eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere stranding them all in the desert]] with nothing but the police cruiser and all the presumably stolen money.
** "Helena Beat," as well, contrasting a [[OdeToSobriety song calling out denial of drug addiction]] and self-destructive tendencies with a video set AfterTheEnd in which a man (Mark (Foster)) gets kidnapped, severely beaten, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking separated from his]] [[PostApocalypticDog dog]] by a [[TeenageWasteland group of wild children]], strapped up to a machine with an older guy at the other end, and [[FountainOfYouth turned into a child himself]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndzln1UEyf0 "Best Friend"]] 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 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.]]

** "Hip to Be Square": The song lyrics have Huey rejecting a life of "cool" to be more normal, and realizing he doesn't care what other people think of him. The video is a performance piece, shot from the perspective of Huey's microphone, focusing almost solely on him the entire time as he mugs for the camera. He didn't cut his hair, either.

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* Pat Benatar, "Shadows Of The Night": she's a WWII flying ace. [[AllJustADream Or possibly just dreaming of being one]]
* Don Johnson, "Heartbeat". Don, a photographer, chases a beautiful figment of his imagination while rocking out with Dweezil Zappa.

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* Music/LadyGaga's video for "Telephone" is the queen of this trope.
** The "Alejandro" video might top "Telephone" in sheer lyrics/video disconnection.
*** Though "Telephone" has a clear narrative. [[SurrealMusicVideo "Alejandro"]], [[MindScrew not so much]].
* Music/Maroon5's "Payphone" is about a breakup. The video is...about a guy that works at a bank getting involved in a skirmish with criminals and then being chased by cops. While a payphone ''does'' appear in the video, it doesn't really have anything to do with the plot.

* Music/KatyPerry's "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]].

* The 1984 song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0H_w9kBx8 "Yo, Little Brother"]] by Nolan Thomas is about the older brother finding out the titular little brother has gotten into the wrong crowd that he himself escaped from in the past. The ''music video'' on the other hand had the older brother looking like a 1950s child version of Series/MaxHeadroom, the little brother like a 7-year-old Music/BillyIdol and the "wrong crowd doing things they shouldn't oughta do" are [[WTHCasting a kid dressed up as Prince (that can't dance,) a mini-Rick Ocasek, a mini-Bruce Springsteen and a mini-Cyndi Lauper (that would've made a better Boy George,)]] who simply play Charades. Aside from a more LighterandSofter approach to the song, it was a prequel to Music/MilliVanilli as the kid in the video, Nolan Thomas was lipsynching Elan Lanier's song in an obnoxious case of ExecutiveMeddling.

* ''Music/FosterThePeople'' have three infamous songs where the videos do ''not' mesh well with the band's NiceGuy motif or their sweet lyrics.

* Music/APerfectCircle's "The Outsider" deals with someone trying to convince his friend not to commit suicide, and eventually concluding that if the friend does decide to shoot themself, they should do so far away from him. The music video has a woman escape from jail and meet up with a crew of female criminals called the "Bikini Bandits", who proceed to cause reckless destruction on people's properties and in a convenience store before being arrested. The video tries to justify this by calling the lead female "the outsider", and having people quote the lyrics "why would you throw it all away like this" and "they were right about you, suicidal imbicile", but it doesn't work.

* {{Music/Lit}}'s ''Miserable'' is about being addicted to someone despite them making you feel terrible. The video is has them serenading a GiantWoman in a bikini who [[ConsumingPassion eats them]].

* Music/AmonAmarth's song "The Way of Vikings" is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well... vikings]], but the music video is about an underground fighting ring.

* Music/TheKillers' "All These Things That I've Done" appears to be about the band trying to run out on their girlfriends... while wearing cowboy outfits... and then the women pursue them with boomerangs. The UK version, on the other hand, is pure SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel.

* Music/TheKillers' "All These Things That I've Done" appears to be about the band trying to run out on their girlfriends... while wearing cowboy outfits... and then the women pursue them with boomerangs. The UK version, on the other hand, is pure SweetDreamsFuel.

* TheKillers' "All These Things That I've Done" appears to be about the band trying to run out on their girlfriends... while wearing cowboy outfits... and then the women pursue them with boomerangs. The UK version, on the other hand, is pure SweetDreamsFuel.