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* Epik High, "One Minute, One Second".

* "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.
** ''Back to the Future Part III'' has ZZ Top's "Doubleback," which features the hirsute trio "interacting" with scenes from the movie. Like Huey Lewis before, they have a musical cameo in the movie--they play an acoustic, Western-influenced version of their track.

* HilaryDuff "Why Not?"

* {{Icehouse}}'s "Crazy" did this on a high-rise in UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}.

* After years of decrying trite video concepts, and after exactly three original videos of their own, {{Metallica}} quickly fell into this cliche with "Nothing Else Matters".

* {{Metallica}}'s "One", between [[VideoFullOfFilmClips clips from the movie]] ''Johnny Got His Gun'', showed the band in a warehouse. An alternate version removed the film clips.

* TheOffspring, "Can't Repeat"

* NoDoubt's "Don't Speak" alters between this, the PerformanceVideo and photo-session scenes.
* {{Weezer}}, "Say It Ain't So"
* MyChemicalRomance did this in "I'm Not Okay" in between clips of high school shenanigans.

* The Who for "Who Are You".
* DefLeppard used a fantasy-like, stylized interpretation of this for "Love Bites".

* Kyle Minogue's video for "Locomotion" included a brief scene In The Studio.
* BonJovi's "Born To Be My Baby", accentuated by manipulating the soundtrack to actually sound like a mixer changing and testing the various instruments' levels.
* Audioslave's "Like a Stone" and "Revelations"
* {{Nickelback}}'s "If Everyone Cared"

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

* A Perfect Circle, "Judith"
* {{Queen}}'s "One Vision"

* The videos for The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Spirits Of The Material World" feature this. "Magic" does cut between "studio" shots and random shots of the band cavorting around Martinique, but everyone who's seen the video chuckles at the sequence in the studio with Andy Sumner mugging for the camera while Sting sings "Must I alllll-waaaaaaays beeeeee aaaaaaaa-LOOOOOOOOOONE...."
* EddieMurphy's "Party All The Time"

* {{ABBA}}'s "Gimme Gimme Gimme".

* GreenDay, "Brainstew".

* {{Slipknot}}'s "Psychosocial"

* {{U2}}, "Where The Streets Have No Name"

* LimpBizkit, "Rollin'", though it was actually from atop one of the twin towers. Disturbingly, the band was sent a thank-you letter from the tower on September 10, 2001.

* Parodied in AlanJackson's "That'd Be Alright", where a crew decides to accept Alan's sarcastic suggestion to film a music video without him. Eventually, this leads to them trying to find look-a-likes, [[SynchroVox Syncro-Voxing]] previous Alan Jackson videos, and even secretly filming his personal life!

* VanHalen, "Best Of Both Worlds"

* Non-MusicVideo example: in ''TheBreakfastClub'', Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall and Emilio Estevez do this during the "rock out in the library" scene.

* An unreleased version of [[{{Queensryche}} Queensrÿche's]] "Another Rainy Night (Without You)".

* Rick James' "Superfreak" uses this, with minimal set dressing.

* Beyonce's "Single Ladies"

* Extreme's "Rest in Peace" (the background also strobes between black and white)

* "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" from ''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.

* MC Hammer's "Addams Family Groove" from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', where the singer is tormented by Wednesday and Pugsley. Most of the cast of the film (including Raul Julia, Angelica Huston and Christina Ricci) appear.

* {{Nickelback}}'s "If Today Was Your Last Day." The title alone makes this one of the... ''[[{{Glurge}} less]]'' [[{{Anvilicious}} subtle]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes versions]].
* BillyJoel's video for "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" is basically a mid-80's ''ItsAWonderfulLife'', with Billy trying to talk (or sing) a guy out of jumping off a bridge.

* At the end of "Into the Void" by NineInchNails

* Part of MichaelJackson's "Black or White" is a variation where he's clearly on sets but gets down with various dancers of different ethnicities in an "It's a Small World" kind of way.

* DuranDuran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" was filmed on location in Sri Lanka by Russell Mulcahy.

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* OneRepublic, "All The Right Moves"

** ''WildWildWest'' from the 1997 remake of the same name. In the video, Jim West (Smith) pursues a BackFromTheDead Dr. Loveless, who has once again kidnapped Rita Escobar (Salma Hayek). Although the music video premiered months before the film came out, it is a semi-sequel to the film, and ignores most of the movie's ending (namely, Rita has apparently left her doctor husband, and Loveless has appeared alive and well without explanation).

* Julian Lennon's "Valotte" and "Too Late For Goodbyes." Not only were they essentially the same video with minor variations, they were released one after the other, and they were both directed by Sam Peckinpah.

** Had child molestation accusations not derailed it, Music/MichaelJackson would have done a similar video for the sequel ''Addams Family Values'' ("Is It Scary") in which he would be aided by Wednesday and Pugsley in confronting a mob accusing him of being a freak. He later revived the project as ''Ghosts'' in 1997, but dropped the Addams trappings.

* ''USA (United Support of Artists) for Africa'' in WeAreTheWorld, showing the soloists assembling around microphones, and then on the chorus, together with the choir of other big names, all in the studio. Written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, it included such names as Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon. The choir itself also featured the other Jacksons, the Pointer Sisters, and even Dan Aykroyd.

* Grouplove, "Tongue Tied"

* ThePolice's "Every Breath You Take", spiced up with multiple layers of photography.

* TalkingHeads, "Once In A Lifetime" (a GreenScreen cornucopia)

* The DavidBowie videos "Let's Dance" and "China Girl" both have brief but significant segments involving this.

* DavidBowie

* DavidBowie, "Never Let Me Down"

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

* Parodied in MichaelJackson's "Liberian Girl": we are on the set of a video, but instead of Jackson in action a bunch of famous visiting folks (even Weird Al!) are trying to figure out where Michael actually is as the song plays. Turns out he's the one filming them.

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

* MichaelJackson's "Childhood" from ''FreeWilly 2'' features the child actors from the film singing the chorus to the song while Jackson sings in a forest.

** Had child molestation accusations not derailed it, MichaelJackson would have done a similar video for the sequel ''Addams Family Values'' ("Is It Scary") in which he would be aided by Wednesday and Pugsley in confronting a mob accusing him of being a freak. He later revived the project as ''Ghosts'' in 1997, but dropped the Addams trappings.

** While he played the movie's villain and had top billing, DavidBowie appears as himself in the two videos derived from ''{{Labyrinth}}'' and the interaction with characters seems to be the result of travel between the "real" world and movie world. In "Underground", his trip into a mysterious alley results in an encounter with Hoggle, the Junk Lady, and company. In "As the World Falls Down", Hoggle is witness to Bowie singing to a portrait of a woman who, elsewhere, [[LoveBeforeFirstSight falls for a photograph]] of him.

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* Two of the videos Music/MyBloodyValentine made in support of ''Loveless'' use this trope [[hottip:* :by the way, the third one, for "Only Shallow", is just a PerformanceVideo run through cheap processing, but without the featureless backdrop]]:

* Music/{{Icehouse}}'s "Crazy" did this on a high-rise in UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}.

* Aqua's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IT&hl=it&v=taF3YHdomA4 Bumble Bees]]'' is another parody. The director with a thick French accent proposes three concepts: an AnimatedMusicVideo with Aqua as CG bugs (obviously inspired by ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''), a weird HotForTeacher clip (with the faces of Aqua's male members creepily superimposed on kids' bodies), and Aqua in silly and extremely cheap bug costumes.

* Ok Go's This too Shall Pass Has a Marching band music video, with a Literal Marching band. Even the music is replaced with marching band instruments.