History Main / TheInvisibleBand

* The Music/BeastieBoys video for "Make Some Noise" features Creator/SethRogen, Creator/ElijahWood, and Creator/DannyMcBride lip-syncing to the song and dressed as Mike D, Ad Rock, and MCA (respectively) from the "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" video. The video functions as a sort of sequel to the earlier video, and features the Beastie Boys in brief cameos portraying other characters.

* As a possible parody of the use of this trope for sex appeal, Von Sudenfed's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-CLFPU6RY "Fledermaus Can't Get It"]] replaces [[Music/TheFall Mark E. Smith]] with a trio of drag queens, who lip-sync to the song while wearing various makeup and outfits.

* Music/{{Coldplay}} has done some bizarre variants on this, including a miniaturized performance of "Life In Technicolor" with marionette versions of the bandmembers, and "Paradise" which [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible inexplicably]] has them all wearing pink elephant costumes.

* Music/{{Korn}}'s video for "Twisted Transistor" replaces the band members (Jonathan Davis, Fieldy, David Silveria, and Munky) with four famous rappers (Music/LilJon, Xzibit, David Banner, and Music/SnoopDogg, respectively) for a ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''-style mockumentary. The actual members only appear at the end of the video as music company executives.

* Another Europop group pulling a Milli Vanilli was Whigfield, whose FaceOfTheBand was purported as Sannie Carlson, but whose vocals were actually recorded by Annerley Gordon.

Sometimes musicians are... facially unfortunate. It's not their fault, but that doesn't mean you should pander to them by putting them in the video, oh no. After all, who wants to watch a bunch of ugly, hairy types leaping around when you can replace them with oiled-up catalogue models and whiz-bang CGI.

* In Music/BubbleButt Music/BrunoMars, Tyga and Mystic do not physically appear in the music video at all. Instead, the video is entirely populated with [[FanService beautiful, scantily clad, women writhing around on a dancefloor.]]

* Similarly, Music/{{Queen}}'s "The Miracle" has a quartet of kid lookalikes until the very end, when the real band shows up.
* Music/{{Queen}} and Music/DavidBowie's "Under Pressure" was a well-known example of this trope in TheEighties. Obviously not due to any lack of good looks on either artists' part, they simply couldn't coordinate their schedules long enough to shoot a video together. Director David Mallet cleverly edited together stock newsreel footage of "pressure" -- everything from explosions to unemployment -- with clips from silent film classics including ''Film/BattleshipPotemkin'' and ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' to reflect the lyrics.

** The duo are also missing from the "No Small Thing" music video.

* "Accidentally In Love" by Music/CountingCrows has a CG stuffed animal bunny with Adam Duritz's hair, goatee and facial features singing the song to a live action woman. The real Adam never appears, nor do any other band members. This approach is likely tying into the fact that the song is in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' - Bunny!Adam is animated in a very Creator/DreamWorksAnimation style, and clips from the movie are seen via a TV screen at a couple points.

* In Music/BubbleButt Bruno Mars, Tyga and Mystic do not physically appear in the music video at all. Instead, the video is entirely populated with [[FanService beautiful, scantily clad, women writhing around on a dancefloor.]]

* Many of the "faces" of Eurobeat artists are not the actual singers. For example, Bazooka Girl was depicted as Cristiana Cucchi, but the vocals on the recordings were performed by a singer known only as "R.".