History Main / OtherCommonMusicVideoConcepts

The artist is inserted into a facsimile of mundane life, usually domestic. HilarityEnsues. A common form of LyricsVideoMismatch, and usually an {{homage}}.

** Music/MichaelJackson was working on a similar video for the sequel ''Addams Family Values'' ("Is It Scary") which featured cameos from Thing, Wednesday, and Pugsley, though most of the video was about him confronting a mob accusing him of being a freak. The project was forcibly dropped when he was first accused of child molestation in 1993, but he revived the project as ''[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]'' in 1997, this time without the Addams trappings.

* "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" from ''Film/DumbAndDumber'', performed by the Crash Test Dummies. Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) foils a robbery while on a trip in [[CanadaEh Toronto, Canada]], and gets a pumpkin stuck on his head in the process.

* {{Music/Madonna}}'s video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-lDYPR2P8 "Material Girl"]] recreates ''Literature/GentlemenPreferBlondes'', while [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsVcUzP_O_8 "Express Yourself"]] is inspired by ''{{Film/Metropolis}}.''

* Music/TheBeastieBoys, "Fight For Your Right To Party"

* Music/{{Rush}}'s studio videos for "Limelight", "Vital Signs" and "Tom Sawyer".

In StepfordSuburbia, a StandardFiftiesFather tells his son off for listening to "that rock 'n' roll music" instead of doing his math homework. At this point, a group of leather-clad rockers with EightiesHair appear, spike the tea with booze, replace the bookshelf with a video game console, and start making out with the hot older sister. A safe way of appealing dangerous, it's probably ''the'' stereotypical GlamMetal video, to the extent that this was tongue-in-cheek to begin with, and most uses of it since have been outright parodic.

* Les Rhythmes Digitales' "Hey You (What's That Sound?)": Stuart Price walks down the street playing the song on a keytar. As he uses his keytar to zap people he encounters, their style of dress becomes more [[TheEighties "eighties"]] and they start dancing while following him. For instance, a trio of young men dressed in a gangsta rap style are turned into "b-boys", who spend the rest of the video break-dancing behind him.

* Music/XJapan, "Jade" LIVE PV, is an example from TheNewTens. There is a movie PV for the same song, but only small segments of it were released - most Website/YouTube uploads of "Jade PV" are either the Hollywood and Highland center shoot (this trope) or that interspersed with the released movie segments.

* [[Music/TaijiSawada D.T.R.]] provided an example of how NOT to do this early in TheNineties, around 1994, in their PV for "Cybernetic Crime," as the video was so poorly shot (including excessive camera spin, little member focus, etc.) that it is arguably one of the worst Japanese rock videos ever made.

* Music/DavidBowie did this twice in TheSeventies, using all-white voids in "Life on Mars?" and "Be My Wife".

Prevalent in the [[TheEighties 80s]] and [[TheNineties 90s]], movie tie-in music videos were songs from film soundtracks performed by an artist or band -- plus members of a film's cast. This was different (but not mutually exclusive) than a VideoFullOfFilmClips in that most (or the entirety) of the video had a unique plot (that takes place before, during or after the film), and is intended to be part of the same movie universe or continuity. Although these types of videos were frequent in past years, they are a rarity in the 21st century.

** "The Power Of Love" from ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', performed by Huey Lewis and The News. Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) makes a pit stop at a club to see the band, but someone takes the [=DeLorean=] on a joyride while he's watching the performance.

* Self, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXy_wxgIe7A Could You Love Me Now]]: A pretty typical take on the concept, with Matt Mahaffey walking and lip synching backwards while doing things like pulling petals off a flower. One notable trick is that the video starts out with Matt wearing soaking wet clothes - halfway through, extras in football uniforms pour a cooler full of water on him in reverse, so after that point he's dry for the rest of the video.

* Music/LindseyStirling "Mirage", a ''really'' surreal one in general, features backwards-shot scenes of ladies dancing with silk scarves. In clouds of flour. Like we said, surreal.

* Downplayed in Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' "Soul To Squeeze", which was originally a BSide but was released as a single to promote the ''{{Film/Coneheads}}'' soundtrack: An extra dressed as a Conehead appears, Creator/ChrisFarley has [[TheCameo a cameo]] but he's clearly playing a different character than he did in ''Coneheads'', and overall the video has a traveling circus motif, with more references to ''{{Film/Freaks}}'' than the movie it was ostensibly promoting.

* {{Feist}}'s "Mushaboom" starts with Leslie Feist waking up in her apartment and singing along to the song itself playing on the radio as she prepares for her day (which may or may not raise the CelebrityParadox question). Then her toast pops out of the toaster and flies out of the window, she flies out after it, and a parade of people start dancing along behind her as she sings and plays guitar.

* Music/LinkinPark, "Bleed It Out"

* In a variant of this, the video for Music/RascalFlatts' "Life Is a Highway" (from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' soundtrack) features ''Cars'' footage mixed in with shots of the band singing.

* Music/PhilCollins and Philip Bailey, "Easy Lover": shows the two preparing for an appearance on an Ed Sullivan-type television show.

* Also parodied in Phil Collins's [[http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=LTClsWzUHBo "Don't Lose My Number"]], where various possible concepts (and subsequent behind the scenes) for the song video clip are shown; some of them are [[ShoutOut parodies]] of well-known music videos and films.

* Another parody is Christine [=McVie's=] "Love Will Show Us How", where the director's hackneyed ideas go seriously awry.
* Steve Perry's "Oh Sherrie" is supposedly filmed during a break from the filming of a different music video.

* Ironically, Music/DavidBowie and [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger's]] video for "Dancing In The Street" featured only the two of them.

* [[{{Music/Pentagon}} Pentagon's]] 'Naughty Boy'.
* Music/{{Journey}}'s "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)". [[TroubledProduction Though, the unbearable nature of making this video]], coupled with its poor reception, prompted the band to refuse to make ''any'' videos for their next album.

** In Diana King's "Shy Guy" video from 1995's ''Film/BadBoys'', Smith and Martin Lawrence appear as the two titular cops of the film, reacting to the singer's presence and trying (miserably) to dance to the music.

* Music/{{Genesis}}, "I Can't Dance"

* The chorus of Music/{{Genesis}}' "I Can't Dance".

** "We Made You" contains a portion in which Slim Shady, as Elvis, recreates the dance routine from ''Film/JailhouseRock''.

* Music/{{Nickelback}}'s "If Today Was Your Last Day." The title alone makes this one of the... ''[[{{Glurge}} less]]'' [[{{Anvilicious}} subtle]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes versions]].