Clichés

Clichés

Music video clichés.

Music video clichés. Proceed with caution, or with ROCK.

For more information, see our antville post or VH1's 100 Cheesetastic Video Tricks Exposed.

Some totally tricked out videos: Van Halen "Hot for Teacher," Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart," Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna Take It," Y Kant Tori Read "The Big Picture," Meat Loaf "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)," Marty Callner's videography (with all due respect!).


 * 40-ounce malt liquor in cans
 * Back-alleys at night
 * Ballcap backwards, sideways
 * Band at the beach
 * Band clones
 * Band in a desert
 * Band in a boat
 * Band in front of a blue or green screen
 * Band in the forest
 * Band in power plant / warehouse
 * Band members as kids
 * Band on rooftop
 * Band walking around
 * Bling
 * Blowing spliff smoke
 * Busting a sag
 * Calendars with days going by
 * Candles
 * Car crashes
 * Cars
 * Celebrity cameo, ironic
 * Clocks spinning
 * "Crazy" people
 * Creepiness
 * Curtains flying in the wind
 * Dance-offs
 * Detective / mob stories
 * Dreams that are not a dream
 * Driving while rapping
 * The Dutch angle
 * The fade
 * Fish-eye lens
 * Food fights
 * Furries
 * Gangs
 * Girls -- always hos, never achievers
 * Godfather homage
 * Guns
 * Hanging around the backyard
 * Hanging around the pool
 * Holding out chain medallion while smirking
 * Hot chicks as hood ornaments
 * Low riders
 * "Make-up!" and retouching for the camera
 * Mansions
 * Midgets
 * Mirrors
 * Money, counting
 * Money, throwing all of it in the air
 * Nerds
 * Office workers
 * Oily, writhing bodies
 * Old people acting "hip"
 * Orientals
 * Parents who are uncool
 * Pied pipers
 * Pole dancing
 * Police harrasment
 * Prison stories
 * Reverse
 * Rain
 * Robots
 * Runaways
 * Scarface homage
 * Signs
 * Slow-motion emotive crooning
 * Smoke machines
 * Snare drums filled with liquid
 * Soundtrack videos
 * Spinny rims
 * Spontaneous dancing
 * Spraying liquor/40's
 * Standing on a bridge, ready to jump
 * Sunglasses
 * Teachers
 * The stick twirl
 * Street fights
 * Swinging lightbulbs
 * Tumbling objects that shatter on the floor
 * Video ho's
 * Waking up from a nightmare
 * Wet streets
 * Wind
 * Writing on your body