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Sometimes musicians are... facially unfortunate. It's not their fault, but that doesn't mean you should pander to them by putting them in the video, oh no. After all, who wants to watch a bunch of ugly, hairy types leaping around when you can replace them with oiled-up catalogue models and whiz-bang CGI? As a result you get videos in which the people who made the music are conspicuously absent, having been replaced with any number of other, more visually interesting things. 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. Not to be confused with a Travis album. Compare Anonymous Band, where the musicians can be seen but their physical appearance is downplayed rather than hidden. That Syncing Feeling can be a byproduct of this. |
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The music video for Carly Rae Jepsen's "I Really Like You" features Tom Hanks lip-syncing the words while Jepsen sings. She does appear in the video, though, but only far after the beginning and mostly in crowd scenes. | |
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Imagine Dragons doesn't appear in the Animated Music Video for "Warriors", and only make a cameo in the video for "I Bet My Life". Additionally, a few videos on their pre-Vevo YouTube channel consist of simply the band singing while random clips play. | |
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The Replacements' "Bastards Of Young". Just a single shot of a stereo system playing the song, slowly panning out to also include someone listening to it (and kicking the stereo over at the end). | |
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The Melvins' already Surreal Music Video for "The Talking Horse" features elements of the scenery lip-syncing the lyrics instead of the band - trees, skyscrapers, and newspaper boxes for instance. Vocalist Buzz Osborne gets a cameo of sorts, though - his picture graces a cologne ad on the side of a bus stop. | |
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In the music video for "Bubble Butt", Bruno Mars, Tyga and Mystic do not physically appear at all. Instead, the video is entirely populated with beautiful, scantily clad, women engaging in Three Minutes of Writhing on a dance floor. | |
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The Chemical Brothers likewise make brief cameos while remaining otherwise absent from their music videos. They're the skeletons exiting the car at the end of the "Hey Boy Hey Girl" video, for example. | |
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"Another Way To Die" by Disturbed in order to get the Green Aesop across is the first video of theirs to not feature any band members. It instead depicts a wasteland destroyed by humanity's treatment of the earth interplayed with images of the current earth and things such as oil spills and smoke stacks. | |
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The video for "No Future Shock" features a deranged dance marathon somewhere between They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Shortbus. TV on the Radio does not appear in it. | |
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In Boney M., the lead male vocals were performed not by Bobby Ferrell, the purported male lead in concert, but by Farian himself. | |
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Lonestar's "Mr. Mom" is an Animated Music Video retelling the song's story via cartoons. | |
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Korn's video for "Twisted Transistor" replaces the band members (Jonathan Davis, Fieldy, David Silveria, and Munky) with four famous rappers (Lil Jon, Xzibit, David Banner, and Snoop Dogg, respectively) for a This is Spın̈al Tap-style mockumentary. The actual members only appear at the end of the video as music company executives. | |
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The 1986 remix of The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" has kids playing the song while the band (which is the trio that recorded the track in 1979, including original bassist Michael Dempsey who returned just for the video) appears only in shadow behind them. | |
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Peterpan's video for "Membebaniku" is the only one where the band is not seen. It focuses on a single actor instead. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had a video of "Yummy Yummy Yummy" performed on a Top of the Pops-style set by Jackie Charlton and the Tonettes. The band members are implied to be hidden inside packing crates, which the camera dramatically pans around as if it were a Performance Video. | |
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C+C's record label tried to refute the charges by having Davis perform the song live (most notably on The Arsenio Hall Show). It backfired spectacularly: Davis' thin, reedy voice sounded nothing like the voice on the song, strengthening Wash's case that much more. | |
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Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" was a well-known example of this trope in The '80s. Obviously not due to any lack of good looks on either artists' part, they simply couldn't coordinate their schedules long enough to shoot a video together. Director David Mallet cleverly edited together stock newsreel footage of "pressure" — everything from explosions to unemployment — with clips from silent film classics including Battleship Potemkin and Nosferatu to reflect the lyrics. | |
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Mumford & Sons' video for "Hopeless Wanderer" looks like a typical "band performing the song in an appropriate natural setting" video at first glance, but either their backs are to the camera, or their faces are blurred out by lens flare and other techniques. Eventually, it becomes apparent that comic actors Jason Sudeikis, Ed Helms, Jason Bateman, and Will Forte are standing in for the actual band members, make the video a form of Self-Deprecation on the band's part as they proceed to ham it up by getting a little too into their emotional performance of the song. | |
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