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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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

solo dancing

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 29 January 2015 09:34 (eleven years ago)


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