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This is particularly popular in dance music videos; since dance music fans tend to buy songs they like rather than stick closely to any particular artist, there's less impetus to build up a "brand" by making the artist's face (and name) well-known. Additionally, as the artist very rarely contributes vocals there's very little reason to have them on-camera.
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* An odd example is "Light Aircraft On Fire" by The Auteurs, in which lead singer Luke Haines becomes the bass player while an actor pretends to sing the lyrics.
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* Would [[Garbage]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqaUZkf52fs Cherry Lips]" count?
** {{spoiler|The trope is parodied (inverted?) in the video in which the band are in fact completely invisible save for clothes but can in fact be seen through TV screens and mirrors.}}
* "''Another Way To Die''" by [[Disturbed (Music)|Disturbed]] in order to get the [[Green Aesop]] across is the first video of their's to not feature any band members. It instead depicts [[
* Many of the "faces" of Eurobeat artists are not the actual singers. For example, Bazooka Girl was depicted as Cristiana Cucchi, but the vocals on the recordings were performed by a singer known only as "R.".
* BT's "Somnambulist(Simply Being Loved)" features JC Chasez as the vocalist, but the video depicts BT himself lipsynching. Ditto for "Suddenly", where the real vocalist was Christian Burns.
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