# Goofs in music videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofs-in-music-videos/757349 "2016-06-14T14:40:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofs-in-music-videos/757349/1 "2016-06-14T14:40:42Z")
The [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/) has a great tradition of collecting and cataloguing the various mistakes in theatrically released films. (It’s easy to waste hours of your time reading through the “Goofs” pages for your favourite films.) However, the IMDb doesn’t tend to cover music videos, so I thought I’d start this thread for us to share our favourite goofs in this specialized cinematic art form. One I always remember is in [the 1994 video for “Push”](http://dai.ly/x15v31b) by the alternative rock group Moist. The song begins with a close-up of the lead singer, David Usher, who slowly walks backwards to join the lead guitarist, Mark Makoway, and then the rest of the band. In the background stand members of a live audience, who eventually join the band in the foreground for some grooving and head-banging. The goof comes at about the two-and-a-half minute mark, while Usher and Makoway are still walking backwards. One of the audience members absent-mindedly wanders into their path, right between them and the band. At the last second, someone (probably a member of the production crew) grabs the errant kid by the shirt and drags him out of the frame to avoid a collision. I’d probably seen the video a dozen times before a friend of mine pointed this out to me. Now I can’t watch the video _without_ noticing it. Anyone got any other music video goofs to share? ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofs-in-music-videos/757349/2 "2016-06-14T15:35:40Z")
In the video for [Ladykillers by Lush](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iedz_x6Hlhw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m55s), at a little after 1:55, the verse begins and Emma (the brunette on the left) begins singing (lip syncing) and realizes that she is not supposed to sing this part and laughs and puts her hand over her mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofs-in-music-videos/757349/3 "2016-06-14T16:21:16Z")
The guitar solo in _Burnin’ for You_ is butchered in the video version. Just doesn’t sound right at all. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kn-8n4QKUS4/maxresdefault.jpg "Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' For You") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn-8n4QKUS4) ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofs-in-music-videos/757349/4 "2016-06-14T21:10:49Z")
Not exactly an official music video, but close enough: the Gap commercial [Dress You Up in My Love - Everybody in Vests](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKeGkH1XQlE). I laugh at the hard-blink by the girl at the 0:26 mark. Everyone else is stone-faced except for that “I can’t hold it any longer” blink. Supposedly a young Rashida Jones is at the 0:15 mark. You don’t mean career goofs like that though. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goofs-in-music-videos/757349/5 "2016-06-16T01:57:06Z")
Apart just about everything being wrong in this video, the lip-syncing is particularly grisly at points: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hLqvQUoxLFI/hqdefault.jpg "Jan Terri "Losing You"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLqvQUoxLFI)