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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 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.
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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
== 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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