Music Video Overshadowing: Difference between revisions

* "Pork and Beans" by [[Weezer]]. Song: A [[Take That]] on the music industry; Rivers Cuomo doesn't care about what the executives think he needs to do, and will do what he wants. Video: The band plays while a wide array of [[Memetic Mutation]] victims show up.

** [[Your Mileage May Vary|Or]] its a song about all these folks deciding to be themselves and do whatever makes them happy, rather than letting others decide for them. Which is actually pretty close to the song itself, except with lots of memes thrown in.

* "Asylum" by [[Disturbed]]. Song: Built around the dual-meaning behind the word "asylum", referring to an institution and a safe haven, in that the darkest places within the mind can hold their own kind of comfort (the inspiration for the song comes from the memory of a lost loved one becoming this). Video: A depiction of an actual asylum and a delusional patient's attempts to escape from it.

* "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 [[The Troubles|an IRA foot-soldier constantly in and out of jail]], and realizes too late that his son has grown up just like him.

* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" by [[Milli Vanilli]]. Song: A fairly simple pledge of always being there to support a lover, at least over the telephone. Video: "Singers" Rob & Fab bike through the city trying to track down a piece of paper with a girl's number on it that Rob lost. They don't find the paper, but end up at the girl's house anyway.

** "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" as well. Song: A man laments his breakup with a girl he had always suspected was stringing him along. Video: Rob plays a painter, and Fab plays some guy who has a boat. When Fab attends the debut of Rob's new painting, a portrait of a girl, they realize they've both been dating her. Rob burns the painting on the beach as Fab sails off away from his troubles.

* "Get Back In Line", by [[Motorhead]]. Song: The world sucks, the deck is stacked against you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Video: A group of British businessmen party in a casino where they're literally gambling with people's lives. Motorhead show up, trash the place, and kick their asses, and [[Memetic Sex God|Lemmy leaves with two cocktail waitresses on his arms]].

* "Bad Romance", by [[Lady Gaga]]. Song: About being in love with a best friend, and wanting more. Wanting the love, the sex, the abuse, everything; because what she has just isn't enough. Video: Lady Gaga is grown in a cloning tank and put on the block at a slave auction. A man wearing a gold strap-on beard buys her, but before he can consumnate his purchase she burns him alive with [[The Power of Rock|the power of dance-pop]]. Cover by the Demonstration: [[Performance Video|While the band plays]], a woman puffs on a cigar, sips Evan Williams, and hires a holographic stripper to dance for her. As the song progresses, the stripper crawls to her, takes its top off, and kisses her before dematerializing with a message that her credit limit has been reached.

** "Paparazzi". Song: [[Stalker with a Crush]]. Video: Lady Gaga's boyfriend throws her off the balcony during a makeout session. Half-crippled, she comes home and murders everyone in their mansion before poisoning his drink and turning herself in.

** "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 [[Star Wars]]-ish orchestral overlay, in which Gaga becomes the star-child from [[2001: A Space Odyssey|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, and Gaga is Jesus' bitch, though she harbors a crush for Judas. 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.

* "Always", by Erasure. Song: Love ballad wherein the singer wishes to forever be with the one he loves. Video: In a Japanese garden in the winter, a man swears everlasting love to his woman, and [[The Power of Love]] melts the snow and brings on spring. A demon attacks, returning the snow and freezing the two in ice, but his love remains so strong that he melts the ice and defeats the demon. [[Robot Unicorn Attack|Video game adaptation courtesy of Adult Swim:]] A cybernetic unicorn dashes endlessly through a rainbow-colored dreamscape, accompanied by singing dolphins.

* "Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down. 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.

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