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* Music/BillyJoel's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyv905Q2omU Pressure]]" has some very obvious matte lines in certain scenes.

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* Music/BillyJoel's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyv905Q2omU Pressure]]" has Pressure]]", while having some impressive physical effects, the post-production ones are obviously digitally composited and animated, a very obvious matte lines in certain scenes.early example of the technique.
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* Music/{{Rush}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ "Time Stand Still"]] features some of the worst green screen effects that a big-name band has ever gotten away with (ironically, despite the video being directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński, a famous cinematographer who helped pioneer the technology). It's very blatant that the members of Rush and guest singer Amiee Mann just got cut out and dragged around the scene to create the impression of them floating, with nearly no effort put into making it look believable.

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* Music/{{Rush}}'s Music/{{Rush|Band}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ "Time Stand Still"]] features some of the worst green screen effects that a big-name band has ever gotten away with (ironically, despite the video being directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński, Creator/ZbigniewRybczynski, a famous cinematographer who helped pioneer the technology). It's very blatant that the members of Rush and guest singer Amiee Mann just got cut out and dragged around the scene to create the impression of them floating, with nearly no effort put into making it look believable.
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* At points during the video for "Night Boat To Cairo" by Music/{{Madness}}, the platform they're performing on can be seen to wobble where it meets the backdrop, giving away the fact that the pyramid background is bluescreened in.

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* At points during the video for "Night Boat To Cairo" by Music/{{Madness}}, Music/{{Madness|Band}}, the platform they're performing on can be seen to wobble where it meets the backdrop, giving away the fact that the pyramid background is bluescreened in.
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* '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E It's Raining Men]]'''''... through crappy green screen effects. The sets are also quite [[NoBudget cheap-looking]].

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* '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E It's Raining Men]]'''''... through crappy green screen effects. The sets are also quite [[NoBudget cheap-looking]].cheap-looking]] (although both of these might've been done intentionally, both to spoof low budget weather forecasts and for the sake of {{Camp}}).
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slGLYt3--GY music video]] for Danny & Armi's "I Wanna Love You Tender", the English version of their 1978 duet "Tahdon olla sulle hellä", became an Internet meme almost overnight when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA5GkLM5C7M a muddy, low-resolution copy of it was uploaded to YouTube in 2006]], to the point where viewers regularly shot parodies of the video replicating its bizarre dance choreography. While best known for said choreography, it's also filled to the brim with terrible ChromaKey, where holes constantly appear in the performers and the original background fades in and out of view in several places.
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* Spoonfeedas' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oS8GPQBDg Attack of the Hadedas]] includes a giant bird that looks like it just stepped out of ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' in [[ShoutOut homage]] to movies of [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever its kind]].

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* Spoonfeedas' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oS8GPQBDg Attack of the Hadedas]] includes a giant bird that looks like it just stepped out of parodies ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' and its shoddy effects, obvious cutout birds and all, in [[ShoutOut homage]] to movies of [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever its kind]].

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* Music/KellyRowland's ''Dilemma'' is a pretty iconic song from the UsefulNotes/The2000s, thanks to heavy airplay that in the music video, the message about unrequited love is displayed, amongst other things, as a unanswered text message. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&t=3m14s In Microsoft Excel, that is]].


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* Music/KellyRowland's ''Dilemma'' is a pretty iconic song from the UsefulNotes/The2000s, thanks to heavy airplay that in the music video, the message about unrequited love is displayed, amongst other things, as a unanswered text message. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&t=3m14s In Microsoft Excel, that is]].
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* Music/{{Rush}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ "Time Stand Still"]] features some of the worst green screen effects that a big-name band has ever gotten away with (ironically, despite the video being directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński, a famous cinematographer who helped pioneer the technology). It's very blatant that the members of Rush just got cut out and dragged around the scene to create the impression of them floating, with nearly no effort put into making it look believable.

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* Music/{{Rush}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ "Time Stand Still"]] features some of the worst green screen effects that a big-name band has ever gotten away with (ironically, despite the video being directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński, a famous cinematographer who helped pioneer the technology). It's very blatant that the members of Rush and guest singer Amiee Mann just got cut out and dragged around the scene to create the impression of them floating, with nearly no effort put into making it look believable.
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* Rag'n'Bone Man's "Human" video tries to imitate VertigoEffect with ChromaKey and jittery zooming background footage. There's one problem with it: normally, dolly zoom causes the character in the foreground to distort slightly, getting wider and slightly warped, while here, it's just the background that zooms in and out. Also, the keying on several characters is slightly off.

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* Rag'n'Bone Man's "Human" "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk Human]]" video tries to imitate VertigoEffect with ChromaKey and jittery zooming background footage. There's one problem with it: normally, dolly zoom causes the character in the foreground to distort slightly, getting wider and slightly warped, while here, it's just the background that zooms in and out. Also, the keying on several characters is slightly off.
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* The borderline BodyHorror [[http://i40.tinypic.com/55m1c7.jpg 'floating' effect]] from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljkrkSzWXoY Blancmange's "Lose Your Love"]] music video. Not to mention it failed as soon as it started, unless [[SurrealMusicVideo it was intentional]].

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* The borderline BodyHorror [[http://i40.tinypic.com/55m1c7.jpg 'floating' effect]] effect from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljkrkSzWXoY Blancmange's "Lose Your Love"]] music video. Not to mention it failed as soon as it started, unless [[SurrealMusicVideo it was intentional]].
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* Music/{{Rush}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ "Time Stand Still"]] features some of the worst green screen effects that a big-name band has ever gotten away with (ironically, despite the video being directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński, a famous cinematographer who helped pioneer the technology). It's very blatant that the members of Rush just got cut out and dragged around the scene to create the impression of them floating, with nearly no effort put into making it look believable.
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* Rag'n'Bone Man's "Human" video tries to imitate VertigoEffect with ChromaKey and jittery zooming background footage. There's one problem with it: normally, dolly zoom causes the character in the foreground to distort slightly, getting wider and slightly warped, while here, it's just the background that zooms in and out. Also, the keying on several characters is slightly off.
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* {{Music/Devo}}'s "Freedom of Choice" video has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".

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* {{Music/Devo}}'s "Freedom of Choice" video has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to move in time with the music- music - one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".
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* [[https://vimeo.com/18903787 The music video]] for Creator/WillSmith's "Film/MenInBlack" features a [[ConspicuousCG poorly done]] dancing alien[[note]]based upon "Mikey", the alien at the beginning of the film[[/note]] midway through. The practical alien body parts towards the beginning don't fare much better.

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* [[https://vimeo.com/18903787 The music video]] for Creator/WillSmith's "Film/MenInBlack" features a [[ConspicuousCG poorly done]] done dancing alien[[note]]based upon "Mikey", the alien at the beginning of the film[[/note]] midway through. The practical alien body parts towards the beginning don't fare much better.
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* {|Music/Devo}}'a "Freedom of Choice" video has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".

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* {|Music/Devo}}'a {{Music/Devo}}'s "Freedom of Choice" video has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".
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* {|Muaic/Devo}}'a "Freedom of Choice" has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".

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* {|Muaic/Devo}}'a {|Music/Devo}}'a "Freedom of Choice" video has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".
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* {|Muaic/Devo}}'a "Freedom of Choice" has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a CommentaryTrack, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".

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* {|Muaic/Devo}}'a "Freedom of Choice" has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a CommentaryTrack, commentary track for the video, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".
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* {|Muaic/Devo}}'a "Freedom of Choice" has a stop motion segment where chocolate mini-donuts dance around to the music- one leaves a visible piece of its frosting on the backdrop. In a CommentaryTrack, director Jerry Casale admits he noticed the mistake but the sequence was just too time consuming to do over, and jokingly calls the chocolate stain a "skidmark".
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* Music/KellyRowland's ''Dilemma'' is a pretty iconic song from the UsefulNotes/TheOughts, thanks to heavy airplay that in the music video, the message about unrequited love is displayed, amongst other things, as a unanswered text message. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&t=3m14s In Microsoft Excel, that is]].

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* Music/KellyRowland's ''Dilemma'' is a pretty iconic song from the UsefulNotes/TheOughts, UsefulNotes/The2000s, thanks to heavy airplay that in the music video, the message about unrequited love is displayed, amongst other things, as a unanswered text message. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&t=3m14s In Microsoft Excel, that is]].

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* At points during the video for "Night Boat To Cairo" by Music/{{Madness}}, the platform they're performing on can be seen to wobble where it meets the backdrop, giving away the fact that the pyramid background is bluescreened in.

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* The video for "You Surround Me" by Music/{{Erasure}} uses chroma key to replace the background with images of cityscapes. In certain lights, Andy Bell's shoes are close enough in colour to the background that they get erased too, so at some points he appears to have no feet.
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** The mostly unused animatronic is also featured in a few shots whenever the monster isn't CGI, and its movement is pretty slow compared to how the he moved in the movie.
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** The video for "Move Your Body" is a sequel to the "Blue" video, the band being poorly-inserted and CGI included.
***The music video for Zorotl's I Wanna Be calls back to both above examples (although with a similar-looking alien and different musicians). Made worse where the later happens in a '''sports stadium'''.
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* The video for Music/AFlockOfSeagulls' "I Ran", which is shot in a HallOfMirrors setting, fails to hide the camera reflected in the mirrors that pass behind the musicians.
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* P. Diddy's "Come With Me" video, which was a tie-in music video to the [[Film/Godzilla1998 1998 Godzilla]] movie has the title character as an example, in which the title character looks compressed and looks even worse than in the movie.
--> [[WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow The Music Video Show]]: [[https://youtu.be/px7e1LzwMEs I'm]] watching the video right now...the monster looks like garbage, let's watch something else."
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* Although the ''human'' violence in Biting Elbows' video for "Bad Motherfucker" is realistic enough, the incident when the protagonist kicks the German shepherd out the window uses a ''very'' obvious stuffed dog dummy. Possibly an intentional example, if the band didn't want to receive outraged e-mails from dog lovers by shooting the event ''too'' plausibly.
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* In a rare auditory example, the LaughTrack skips at one point on the third verse to Music/RayStevens' "The Streak".
* Music/FrankZappa wrote an ode to the SpecialEffectsFailure called "Cheepnis". Found on the album ''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere'' (1974), it opens with Zappa monologuing about the concept of cheepnis (which is what he calls the SpecialEffectsFailure) in relation to his love for monster movies, citing an example from ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld''.
* Music/KellyRowland's ''Dilemma'' is a pretty iconic song from the UsefulNotes/TheOughts, thanks to heavy airplay that in the music video, the message about unrequited love is displayed, amongst other things, as a unanswered text message. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&t=3m14s In Microsoft Excel, that is]].
* Music/TheBeatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" features a stock sound effect of a bus driving between the stereo channels. However, the stock sound effect ended with the bus skidding and crashing, which it actually does on one occasion where the faders are brought down too slowly. (On another occasion, the sound effect is cut off suddenly before the crash with an audible click.) Cue Paul Is Dead jokes....

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* Spoonfeedas' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oS8GPQBDg Attack of the Hadedas]] includes a giant bird that looks like it just stepped out of ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' in [[ShoutOut homage]] to movies of [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever its kind]].
* Pretty much all of Music/RandyTravis' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9qA7gfVUA Before You Kill Us All]]" has bad chroma-key. Most obviously, there's a constant mask around Randy's mullet, and his guitar clips the background a few times.
* To say the CGI in Music/Eiffel65's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc Blue]] was dated even in 1999 is an {{Understatement}}. The way the band is inserted into the footage makes it all the more jarring.
** The fight scenes are less "fighting" and more "[[FightSceneFailure a bunch of guys lightly tapping aliens once and a while]]". Either that, or the aliens have [[BlessedWithSuck exceptionally poor combat skills]].
* The Music/BeastieBoys music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-QIiVS_7Hs Don't Play No Game I Can't Win]] is all a bunch of dolls/action figures and other toys in an action movie-like adventure. You can clearly see the wires, hands, and dowel rods used to maneuver everything.
** There's also the Boys' music video for Intergalactic, which intentionally and [[AffectionateParody lovingly]] recreates the bad effects of Japanese {{Kaiju}} movies. From cardboard-looking miniatures to ridiculous robot costumes to a full-size car obviously not matching up with its model equivalent, it's all there.
* The effects for Music/ZZTop's music video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zw_79tlgM&feature=related "Doubleback"]] are pretty bad.
* The [[http://youtu.be/cbhkuu4e0iw?t=26s bike morphing into a pimpmobile]] from Coolio's "Fantastic Voyage" video. THAT IS NOT HOW MORPHING IS DONE. It's so bad the copyright owner is embarrassed.
* The poorly Photoshopped bus stop sign in the "Friday" music video by Music/RebeccaBlack, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0 as seen here]]
** Also the night scene, which was clearly filmed on either a greenscreen or a simple backdrop.
* '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E It's Raining Men]]'''''... through crappy green screen effects. The sets are also quite [[NoBudget cheap-looking]].
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in the video for "Jurassic Park" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. Most of the video is done in [[StopMotion Claymation]], but when the park's gates are shown a second time, one of the torches has gone out - so an arm reaches in and lights it with a lighter.
* The borderline BodyHorror [[http://i40.tinypic.com/55m1c7.jpg 'floating' effect]] from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljkrkSzWXoY Blancmange's "Lose Your Love"]] music video. Not to mention it failed as soon as it started, unless [[SurrealMusicVideo it was intentional]].
* [[https://vimeo.com/18903787 The music video]] for Creator/WillSmith's "Film/MenInBlack" features a [[ConspicuousCG poorly done]] dancing alien[[note]]based upon "Mikey", the alien at the beginning of the film[[/note]] midway through. The practical alien body parts towards the beginning don't fare much better.
** The music video for "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVRCd6J2NA Nod Ya Head]]" (from the [[Film/MenInBlackII second film]]) features a glaring amount of '''''very''''' obvious CG.
* The music video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4YiM4JcLtA Brainbug's Nightmare]] is [[StylisticSuck intentionally]] full of this, mainly as homage to the 50's.
* Music/BillyJoel's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyv905Q2omU Pressure]]" has some very obvious matte lines in certain scenes.
* PlayedForLaughs in the Music/TenaciousD music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3rD8VfiSY Rize of the Fenix]], done up to look like a video that hasn't been dropped yet, with hastily-edited duplicate shots of fans, weird-looking disembodied heads of Kage and Jables on swords and devilish snakes to represent critics, too many explosions (and explosion fails), horribly animated bats, superfluous green-screen shots, shoddy CG supertitles, and many VFX screens and clipart images reading "Stockpic," "Unrendered," and "Missing Media."
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