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Death by Music Video
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A Music Video that features the band being killed off. Sometimes it's the tragic end to a fun time they were having, other times they didn't make it to the fun in the first place. It can also serve as the plot for a music video that's trying to tell a story or used to make a statement. Depending on the plot of the video, the musicians might all get killed at once, or they could get picked off one-by-one as a Dwindling Party. It might be a mishap (or mishaps) that does them in, or it could be someone or something actively targeting them. Generally speaking, in a death by music video situation with a dwindling party, you can expect certain members of a music group or band to last longer than others. Often times it goes something like this: The front man or lead singer will survive the longest. This makes sense, as the lead singer is often the Face of the band so they are usually seen as "the star" of the group to begin with. On top of that, if the lead singer is killed off too early, people may wonder who's singing the lyrics right now if he/she is dead, while the other instruments are often subconsciously treated as non-diagetic. Taking this further, they may be treated as the a type of "POV character" for the video, and we may even have moments focusing on the front man's reaction to their band mates getting picked off. Lead Guitar will typically last a while, though usually not as long as the front man. Alternatively, they may still get picked off somewhere in the middle but still get something about their demise that makes it stand out from the others. This stems from them typically being the second most recognizable member of the group after the front man, so they "earned" a chance to stand out. The Drummer often last somewhere in the middle. Which may reflect the fact that, while the drummer is very important for musical cohesion, via setting the rhythm and the like, they are usually situated behind the rest of the group by necessity and therefore may not be as visually "recognized" by lay people as their band mates. The Bassist are typically the first to go because, well, Nobody Loves the Bassist. Any other incidental members of a group might get offed before the bassist or be scattered throughout the above established order. This order is, of course, not set in stone and is open to tweaks and variations. For example, if one of the face(s) of the band is the bassist, they are likely to last far longer than their place in the above ranking would imply, perhas swapping places with lead guitar. And the front man may take their place in the ranking even farther by not only being the last to survive, but by being the video's Sole Survivor. Additional wrinkles come in with the inclusion of guest stars, either other artists performing on the track or celebrities acting as characters in the video. In all likelihood they have a better chance of surviving than even the lead singer and they are likely to be the possible sole survivor instead. This is doubly so if the Special Guest is an attractive female.note Especially in instances where she's the one killing the band. Hopefully has nothing to do with Fatal Method Acting. |
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Danny Brown is stabbed by anthropomorphic drugs and bleeds to death while an audience cheers in "Ain't It Funny." | |
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Unleash the Archers: The video for their Cover Version of "Northwest Passage" depicts Brittney Slayes jumping through a series of Alternate Timelines. In one version she finds the gravestone of her bandmates. In the end she kills another version of herself by shoving her down a flight of stairs at a concert venue, and takes her place onstage. The video for "Faster Than Light" depicts the band members doing a foot race on a running track... except the referee starts killing anybody who stops running with the starting pistol. Brittney wins and leaves the track... to find the referee sitting in the front seat of her limo. Cut to the muzzle flash seen from the outside of the car as it drives off. (The video is a parody of Stephen King's The Long Walk.) |
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Ninja Sex Party: The music video for Everybody Shut Up ends with Danny being gunned down by the President's bodyguards. Mansion Party ends with the camera cutting out moments before Danny gets mauled by a psychotic panda. |
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Sabaton's video for "Primo Victoria" features one version of the band performing the song on a stage, while another version battles an assortment of German panzers in an Ace Custom Swedish Army Centurion tank. The performing version is run over by a Panzer IV that bursts through the wall behind them at the end of the second chorus, and is then blown up by the infuriated tank-driving version. | |
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The video for Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of "Superstition" features the band being killed off one-by-one by a black cat in a Superstition Episode. | |
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Fergie: Zig-zagged in her video for "Beautiful, Dangerous", which was a collaboration she did with Slash. In it, Fergie plays a stripper who's obsessed with Slash. She stalks, drugs and seduces Slash before killing him at the end of the video. She survives, but Slash, obviously, does not. It's also a rare instance where it's one of the musicians killing the other. | |
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In the original video for "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans, a suicidal Nina Persson drives recklessly at high speed down a desert highway, causing numerous accidents as other drivers swerve and crash while trying to avoid her, before deliberately plowing head-on into a van carrying the rest of the band. The final shot is of her broken body lying dead on the pavement. Because the original version was so violent, several alternate versions were also prepared, some of which had her survive the final crash or even removed it completely. | |
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Korn The band is killed in a car accident before the "A.D.I.D.A.S." video starts. In "Alone I Break" the lead singer murders the rest of the band after a disagreement. |
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Peterpan's video for "Bintang di Surga" downplays this. Half of the band play hostage takers while the other half play cops. The former group get killed one-by-one as the video progress while the latter made it completely fine. | |
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Fishbone gets nuked at a party during the "Party At Ground Zero" video, leaving white shadows on the walls. | |
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Chris Ray Gun: In the Animated Music Video for "Ain't No Rest For The Triggered", Chris's character ends up going to jail, escaping jail, and being chased off a cliff. The last moment of the song is him dying in the desert. | |
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In their music video for "Greek Tragedy", The Wombats are murdered one at a time by an obsessed fangirl who spent a lot of time stalking them. Two of the band members suffer a case of Slashed Throat while the third is electrocuted in his bathtub. The fangirl later dresses and strings up the bodies in a warehouse to make it seem like they're holding a private concert for her. | |
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The music video for "Ich Will" by Rammstein depicts the band robbing a bank, the video alternating between the robbery and its aftermath. During the robbery, Flake is seen wearing a rather large and elaborate bomb strapped to his chest. Scenes showing the aftermath and the band being arrested have Flake notably absent (apart from a large In Memoriam picture of him), implying that he died when the bomb detonated. | |
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