Songs whose lyrics are given a new meaning by the music video

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I always thought that the lyrics of Ultravox's "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" are merely about the end of relationship (living out a memory of a love that died), with some vaguely ominous undertones (the man on the wireless cries again, "It's over, it's over"). But the music video puts it in a context of an upcoming nuclear apocalypse, which is something quite different!

Are there any other examples like this, where the video totally changes the meaning of the song?

Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link

Streets / blinded by the lights. it's about a night on E in a nightclub NO! it's about a punch-up at a wedding (while probs on E).

piscesx, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link

Don Henley: "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" lyrically about wealthy American couple--the man proud to throw money at anything, the woman a bubble head only interested in dancing and sex--evacuating from an embattled and unnamed South American country. In the video, this becomes the tale of a beautiful refugee girl temporarily escaping the horrors of guerrilla warfare by dancing in a bombed-out disco.

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 12:50 (nine years ago) link

solo dancing

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 January 2015 09:34 (nine years ago) link


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