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A common trope for songs that are part of a movie's soundtrack and (usually) written for that movie. The video consists of many clips from the film. This serves as an additional way of promoting the
In more annoying examples, ever since [[The Nineties]], the song will have no direct relation to the movie at all other than the video, especially if the video is fully coherent without the film clips, since it might have been re-edited to include them
In an inversion of this trope, some [[Fan Vid|Fanvids]] produce a similar effect by including band footage from the song's official video.
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* Mika's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm9d5wAXW5c Kickass]" was written specificly for the [[Kick-Ass (film)|movie by the same name]]. It makes sense that the majority of the video is clips of the movie. With the rest being Mika running around singing, and laying on his back singing.
* Most music videos for the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] movie themes.
** The original version of the band [[Garbage]]'s video for ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'' was a straight [[Concept Video]]; it was soon recut into a
** As was the theme for ''[[Die Another Day]]'' by [[Madonna]].
* Cleverly played with in the Beck video "Deadweight" for the film ''A Life Less Ordinary'', in which Beck walks through a series of surreal situations that reflect scenes from the film. For example, he dials a number on a phone on a beach; the video then cuts to Cameron Diaz's character picking up a phone in the movie.
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** As well as "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKI7VNCdcg The Riddler]" by Method Man. While the video itself is typical gangsta rap fare with a few arbitrary clips of the Riddler, the song was actually written for the movie.
* The video for [[Kiss]]' version of "God Gave Rock And Roll To You" consists of Kiss archive clips and the rest of it is just a [[Performance Video]].
* Badly Drawn Boy provided two songs (and an entire score) for the movie ''[[About a Boy]]''; the video clips for both built a very funny back story for the duck Marcus accidentally kills in one scene. In the clip for "Something to Talk About", we see how the duck has been tormenting the singer relentlessly since childhood, and he is finally freed from its tyranny when it dies; in the clip for "Silent Sigh" a scientist from the future unearths the frozen duck, and reading its memories finds that it was in love, but its partner was run over by a
* [[Beyonce]]'s song "Check On It", which was written for, but ultimately not included on the soundtrack for the 2006 remake of ''[[The Pink Panther]]''.
* Anastasia and Ben Moody's song "Everything Burns" has no link in lyrics, concept, theme, or mood to the film ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]'', but that's all the video's about.
** This is one of the sloppier examples, since a version of the video exists without any
* Cleverly avoided in the video for "Signal Fire" by Snow Patrol. The video shows a kids' school pageant where they re-enact ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 1 + 2'', and it ups the sweet cleverness by making the main character of the video the kid who played the spider for thirty seconds at the start of the play. And he gets the girl in the end. Aww...
** This also has some fairly kickass makeshift effects. The kind that gives that feeling of nostalgic jealousy that your school plays weren't more like that.
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