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* Music/{{Miserable}} by Music/{{Lit}}. Song: A combination of ObsessionSong and AntiLoveSong about being in love with and obsessed with someone even though they make your life hell. Video: The band members serenading a flirtatious [[GiantWoman giantess]] in a [[WalkingSwimsuitScene bikini]] and [[HighHeelPower platform high-heels]] while [[ColossusClimb exploring different parts of her body.]] Then they all get picked off one-by-one as [[ImAHumanitarian she eats them alive.]]

* "Ghost" by Music/MysterySkulls. Song: Man leaves his home and starts life anew. Video 1: Man tries [[spoiler: and fails]] to exorcise a spirit. [[WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated Video 2:]] Kids and their dog explore haunted house in an AffectionateParody of Franchise/ScoobyDoo. [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash Then things get tragic.]]]]

* "Land of Confusion" by Music/{{Genesis}}. Song: Someone expresses fear and uncertainty about the state of the world, eventually coming to the conclusion that it's up to regular people like him to enact positive change. Video: UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan has a series of bizarre dreams one night, waking up drenched in sweat the next morning and accidentally launching a nuke while trying to call for his nurse.

* "Downtown" by Music/LadyAntebellum. Song: A woman wonders why her partner won't perform cunnilingus on her. Video: Hillary Scott and Beth Behrs go out and "get so crazy that they end up getting arrested".

* "Take on Me" by Music/{{Aha}}. Song: A guy will be gone soon, so he wants to sleep with this girl. Video: A girl visits a comic book land, and meets a biker guy. [[spoiler: He somehow becomes real... until their next video.]] The [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e062d7b4d5/take-on-me-literal-video-version-from-dustfilms "Literal Version"]] rewrites the lyrics to match the footage.

* Music/{{Sia}}'s "Chandelier". Song: An OdeToIntoxication. Video: A ''Series/DanceMoms'' star prancing around an empty house in NudeColoredClothes.

* Music/{{Sia}}'s "Chandelier". Song: An OdeToIntoxication. Video: A ''Dance Moms'' star prancing around an empty house in NudeColoredClothes.

* "Love Like Woe," by The Ready Set. Song: a guy sings about how he's trying to make his girlfriend stay in love with him. Video: A party in a deserted camp cabin is attacked by vampirish men with glowing green eyes [[spoiler: who kidnap the lead singer and turn him into one of them.]]

* "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin. Song: Dad misses the important moments in his son's life because he's busy with work, and realizes too late his son has grown up just like him. Unofficial video created for a BBC PSA: Dad misses the important moments of his son's life because he's [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles an IRA foot-soldier constantly in and out of jail]], and realizes too late that his son has grown up just like him.

* "Kryptonite" by Music/ThreeDoorsDown. Song: A man asks his girlfriend if she'll still be there for him even when he feels depressed. Music Video: An elderly former Super Hero who lives in a pest filled apartment, spies a woman being harassed by her boyfriend. He dons his old Super Hero costume and chases after the mean boyfriend, at one point he's beat up by a gang of goths, but makes it out of it in time to crash through a bar's skylight on top of the mean boyfriend. All while the band themselves are performing in the bar for a bunch of elderly Super Villains.

* "Like a Prayer" by Music/{{Madonna}}. Song: A passionate young girl is in love with {{God}} the Almighty as if he were the male figure in her life. Video: A young woman sees a clan of white gang members assaulting a white woman and stabbing her to death while a black man tries to stop it and gets framed and arrested in the process. In despair, the woman runs off to a small church and prays for guidance to a black saint (inspired by St. Martin de Porres), who comes to life from the cage and tells her to do the right thing and to [[ClearTheirName clear the name of the innocent man]]; all the while she is having visions of stigmata, an all-black choir, her hanging out with and caressing the saint, and burning crosses in a WorldOfSymbolism. (BTW, this video drew protests from the religious right, including St. John Paul II, due to its symbolic "controversial" nature.)

* "Sunsets" by Powderfinger. Song: Your standard love, regrets, etc. Video: An actiony anime-styled Samurai Jack ripoff.

* "Intruders" by Music/JesseReyez. Song: Threatening violence to anyone who comes between you and your lover. Video: A "colonialism is bad" aesop.

* "Steal My Girl" by Music/OneDirection. Song: The singer is jealous that so many other men are interested in his girlfriend. Video: a [[ShowWithinAShow Music Video Within a Music Video]], as directed by DannyDeVito.

* "What's My Age Again" by Music/Blink182. Song: The story of a immature man, who gets dumped by his girlfriend and later tries and fails to get revenge by prank calling her mother. Video: The three members of blink-182 go streaking and cause all sorts of chaos.

* "Sock it to Me" by Music/MissyElliott. Song: IntercourseWithYou. Video: ''VideoGame/MegaMan''.

Let's pretend for a moment that you're part of a band, and you've just finished your debut album. You got together and decided that you all wanted the song 'Cheese on Toast' to be your headlining single, which was a lighthearted, slightly satirical song about... cheese on toast. Your record label decides however that you need a special music video created for it, since they've pegged you as one of the next-biggest-bands and want to try and impress the critics.

A few weeks later, you're at home with a nice plate of cheese on toast, and you see your new music video appear on screen. It sounds good, and it looks good, but something doesn't seem quite right. Then it hits you: they've created the music video with a [[LyricsVideoMismatch completely different story or meaning to the song]]. This one has the cheese on toast fighting the war on terror against evil beard wearing cans of baked beans.

And not only that, everyone will believe that '''that's''' what you meant the song to be about. It's just a form of Music Video Overshadowing.

In short, Music Video Overshadowing is when the music videos contrast with the songs themselves to the point where they begin to supplant the parent. Most music videos with a storyline are an example of this, especially when the song itself has no real subtext beyond 'Party with me' or 'I don't like you anymore' or IntercourseWithYou, and a lot of the time the band itself will create videos like this to interest the audience. The only problem with this is discussions about song meanings usually devolve into arguments between 'This is what the words say' and 'This is what the video shows' groups.

** "Tonight, Tonight". Song; Time passes and the world changes, but your memories will never fade. Video; A Victorian couple (played by Creator/TomKenny and Jill Talley) travel to the Moon on a zeppelin and fight aliens. Influenced by the early silent film ''Film/ATripToTheMoon''.

** Also, "Freak on a Leash". Song: Jonathan Davis is frequently worried and suffering (because of how the music industry treats him). Video: In an animated section directed by [[Comicbook/{{Spawn}} Todd MacFarlane]], the girl from the album's cover is nearly shot. Then comes literal BulletTime as the bullet [[PostModernism breaks the fourth wall]] out of the artwork and starts blasting everything before meeting the band, who "[[BulletCatch returns it to sender]]".
* "Dancing with Myself" by Music/BillyIdol. Song: A twofold meaning about being alone and, well, masturbating (Idol himself denied it). Video: A new spin on the lyrics by transplanting the meaning slightly; he's still alone, but because he's trying to singlehandedly fend off hordes of zombies.

** "Born This Way". Song; Don't be ashamed of your sexuality, because you can't be anything other than what God made you to be. Video - actually a pretty straightforward performance video - aside from the 3-minute spoken word intro, with a ''Franchise/StarWars''-ish orchestral overlay, in which Gaga becomes the star-child from [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]] and gives birth to ultimate Freedom and ultimate Evil, and realizes that the latter must exist to defend the former.
** "Judas". Song; The singer despairs over being in love with a man who has betrayed her in the past and who will betray her again. Video; Jesus and the Twelve Apostles are a biker gang. She warns Jesus of His imminent betrayal, and He orders her to kill Judas - but she refuses to pull the trigger, and when Jesus realizes she has sided with His betrayer as well, has her stoned to death.

* "What's My Age Again" by Music/Blink182. Song: The story immature man gets dumped by his girlfriend and the same man later tries and fails to get revenge by prank calling his ex-girlfriends mother. Video: The three members of blink-182 go streaking and cause all sorts of chaos.

** "Do Not Disturb". Song: is about the singer wanting a one-night stand with a stranger [[BiTheWay and his girlfriend]]. Video: Lzzy as the [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira-esq]] manager of a HellHotel who's trying to tempt a pair of lost travelers into her bed while the hotel staff (played by the rest of the band) try to murder them. [[spoiler: Until the moon comes out, at which point the couple turn into werewolves and scare the hotel staff off. And end up in Lzzy's bed]].

** "Holding Out for a Hero", by Tyler. Song: A woman desperately waits for a hero to rescue her and love her in return. Video: Bonnie's house gets set on fire by demonic {{outlaw}} {{cowboy}}s, and she escapes from her home and gets surrounded by these cowboys and calls for help, invoking the angel choirs to help her hold out until an angelic hero cowboy arrives on horseback to drive the outlaw cowboys away. Somehow this becomes HilariousInHindsight when this video foreshadows the events of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', especially with [[spoiler:the final mission of Chapter 6]].

* "Total Eclipse of the Heart", by Bonnie Tyler. Song: Emotionally fragile woman pines for the man who has turned her world upside-down. Video: Bonnie Tyler wanders around a Victorian manor inhabited by boarding school kids, ninjas, fencers, American football players, an army of Arthur Fonzarelli clones, demon-possessed choirboys, and [[AuthorAppeal even more underwear-clad male ballet dancers]]. Alternately, the writer of the song claims that it was about vampires from the start, intended for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Vampires his Nosferatu musical]], ''Theatre/TanzDerVampire'', so the video is an indication of the true meaning.

* "I Get Off" by Halestorm. Song: About a woman who gets off on a peeping tom getting off (yeah, you read that right). Video: A woman getting interrogated and watched in a completely non-sexual way through a 1-way mirror. Justified in that it's doubtful that the moral guardians would like Lzzy Hale masturbating in a video (and Lzzy probably wouldn't be too happy about it either).

* "Do Not Disturb" by Music/{{Halestorm}}. The song is about the singer wanting a one-night stand with a stranger [[BiTheWay and his girlfriend]]. The music video is Lzzy as the [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira-esq]] manager of a HellHotel who's trying to tempt a pair of lost travelers into her bed while the hotel staff (played by the rest of the band) try to murder them. [[spoiler: Until the moon comes out, at which point the couple turn into werewolves and scare the hotel staff off. And end up in Lzzy's bed]].

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