# Music Videos that Contradict the Lyrics
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 10, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811 "2017-01-10T14:22:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811/1 "2017-01-10T14:22:36Z")
_Club Tropicana, drinks are free,
Fun and sunshine - there’s enough for everyone.
**All that’s missing is the sea** …_
Hey, George, what’s that large expanse of water 5 metres to your ([Wham! - Club Tropicana (Official Video) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/WYX0sjP6Za8?t=101)) ? The… swimming pool, you say ? OK, never mind.
:smack:
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### Author:  [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811/2 "2017-01-10T14:52:20Z")
My wife and I laugh every time we see the video to Green Day’s “[Boulevard of Broken Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soa3gO7tL-c)”, where Billy Joe sings:
> [@Billy Joe Armstrong](#):
>
> I walk a lonely road
> The only one that I have ever known
> Don’t know where it goes
> But it’s home to me and I walk alone
>
> I walk this empty street
> On the Boulevard of broken dreams
> Where the city sleeps
> And I’m the only one and I walk alone
In the video, though, as he walks along, he’s not alone - his bandmates are right beside him.
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### Author:  [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811/3 "2017-01-10T16:14:55Z")
> [@psiekier](#):
>
> My wife and I laugh every time we see the video to Green Day’s “[Boulevard of Broken Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soa3gO7tL-c)”, where Billy Joe sings:
> In the video, though, as he walks along, he’s not alone - his bandmates are right beside him.
Well, that’s sort of the point, though. In a city like LA, there might be a bunch of people around, but you’re still alone.
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### Author:  [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811/4 "2017-01-10T17:03:10Z")
> [@JSexton](#):
>
> Well, that’s sort of the point, though. In a city like LA, there might be a bunch of people around, but you’re still alone.
I understand that his complaint is metaphorical, but I think it would’ve been more effective visually for Billy Joe to _literally_ walk alone, with maybe only his shadow (as mentioned in other verses from the song) beside him. The setting for the video _is_ pretty desolate, but the presence of the other Green Day ladz is really jarring when he’s supposed to be … well, _alone_.
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### Author:  [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811/5 "2017-01-10T18:09:37Z")
Aerosmith - [Janie’s Got A Gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQn2ADZE1A): the line goes “put a bullet in his brain” but when we see the corpse at 4:48, the only wound appears to be to the chest while the head looks perfectly intact.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811/6 "2017-01-10T20:32:03Z")
Dancing With Myself? Oh, then what are all the mutants/zombies/whatevers that climbed up the building doing if not dancing with you once you give up on zapping them off the roof?
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-contradict-the-lyrics/776811/7 "2017-01-10T21:06:39Z")
Kind of an obscure song, and depending somewhat on interpretations of the lyrics… [Up Up Down Down by Kirby Krackle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2kDtJZos8).
Lyrics:
> [@](#):
>
> I see
> That you frequent
> My shop.
> I’d like for you to know my name
> They call me Box 138.
This only makes sense to me, if ‘my shop’ means the one he frequents, and ‘box 138’ is his pull box.
The video shows him as a shop employee. Who might still have a pull list, but wouldn’t be known by his box number.
(I think the animator knows video games better than comics…she also has the girl pulling from the middle of what appears to be her read pile for the line ‘like me you pull from the middle/skip the books up on the top’, which would more likely refer to taking books off the shelves. But the game references are spot on.)