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* 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 ==
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