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If the song you're making a video for ends with a dramatic fade of the instruments and you want a suitably dramatic ending, then you could try the good old tactic of having your lead singer bow their head while the lights dim and the camera pulls back to reveal - ah ha! - that the band was On A Soundstage All Along. Thus you reveal the artificiality of the music video and undermine the video's story with an unsettling note of self-awareness. Or something. Anyway, it looks totally awesome.

* The very first episode of Anthony Newley's surrealist comedy series ''The Strange World of Gurney Slade'' begins with the title character appearing in what looks like a conventional SitCom. Then he walks away from the scene, leaving the perplexed cast and director behind as he heads off into the "real" world.

* Music/{{Genesis}}'s 'Illegal Alien', at the end, pans up from the 'dusty Mexican town' that the song takes place in and up to show the fact that ... well ...

* This happens in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" after the morphing-faces sequence, but ''then'' we have the panther than wanders onto a city street set and turns into Michael...after all that, it turns out the whole thing is being watched by [[WesternAnimation//TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]].

* The video for {{AwesomeMusic/Red Velvet}}'s "Rookie" ends with the camera pulling out to reveal the group on a soundstage, having just completing the final scene of the music video.

* This happens in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" after the morphing-faces sequence, but ''then'' we have the panther than wanders onto a city street set and turns into Michael...after all that, it turns out the whole thing is being watched by [[Main/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]].

* Done in Madonna's video for "Like a Prayer", but with a theatre stage instead of a soundstage.