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{{trope}}
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 you lead singer bow their head while the lights dim and the camera pulls back to reveal - ah ha! - that the band was
There seemed to be a glut of these around 2001-2005.
Compare [[Proscenium Reveal
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== [[Alternative Metal]] ==
* Played in "Through Glass" by [[Stone Sour]]. Everything in the video (except the band members, but including a pool and a mansion) turns out to be a cardboard cutout, ending with the band on a soundstage.
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== Dance ==
* The video to E-type's "Angels Crying" is a cliché [[Slasher
== [[Industrial Metal]] ==
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== Pop ==
* Used in Michael Jackson's "Beat It", where the dancing gang members, led by Jackson, are drowned out by applause and cheering. Subtle, but still a decidedly weird feel.
* 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 [[The Simpsons (animation)|Bart Simpson]].
** Inverted in Jackson's "Liberian Girl", where dozens of celebrities are shown arriving at an elaborate film set and roaming around, asking where Michael is and when they'll get started filming his video. At the end, it's revealed that he's been there behind the camera all along, and their backstage wanderings ''are'' the video.
* Done in Madonna's video for "Like a Prayer", but with a theatre stage instead of a soundstage.
** Also in "Material Girl", in which the fact that the final shot completely reverses the narrative of the video is actually important.
* The video for Steve Perry's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxGtIqqwT4 "Oh Sherrie"] was already playing with this trope in 1984—it starts with an over-the-top medieval wedding with Perry as the royal groom as the setting for the song, then with the first words of the song we get a slam-cut to Perry in modern clothes sitting in a stairwell. The medieval wedding is not the real video, it's a troubled video production; as the production crew undergoes a meltdown, Perry goofs with the cast to entertain his girlfriend (played by Perry's real girlfriend at the time, Sherrie Swafford, for whom the song was written), who has arrived at the set. In the final moments of the video, the director tries to get everyone back into position for filming.
== Pop Rock ==
* The video for Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" is entirely based around this trope. It starts off looking like it's one of those vids where it cuts between lip syncing and a one-dimensional love
== [[Post-Punk]] ==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctoZbeD-GlY This] [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|disturbing]] [[Mind Screw]] ad raising awareness for domestic violence, featuring Keira Knightley.
* Every Abbey Road Studios dreamscape in [[The Beatles]] [[Rock Band]] ends by returning to the "reality" of the recording studio. [http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/videos/sgtpepper Even for songs that start with the dreamscape already "on"].
* The finale of ''[[The Hills]]'' has this sort of ending.
** As does the last scene of ''Full Frontal'', directed by [[Steven Soderbergh]].
* ''[[The Big O]]''.
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