History Main / LyricVideo

** Weird Al once made a Lyric Video for his ''Perform This Way'', a parody of Music/LadyGaga's ''Born This Way'', after her label rejected that song. Once word got out that Lady Gaga herself never made the rejection, Weird Al made a proper music video for it.
** Another Weird Al example would be his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4 video]] for "Bob", which consists almost entirely of him holding up pieces of paper with the current song lines on them.

%%* Countless (famous or not) Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs are these. - Zero Context Example.

Lyric videos are music videos that simply show the lyrics of the song while it plays. Traditionally these are fan-made videos, however by the early 2010s many companies had taken notice to how popular these types of videos are on Website/{{Youtube}} and began producing professional lyric videos. Official lyric videos can range anywhere from text on a still image, to Typographic Music Videos (also known as "Kinetic Typography" or "Typography Versions" for the official ones) where they're text-based but are meant to look visually appealing, to full-length music videos in their own right. Official lyric videos have also been advantageous in reducing Mondegreens.

* Another UrExample from the MTV era: owing in part to the song’s heavy message and in part to a dispute with [[Music/EpicRecords his label at the time]], Music/GeorgeMichael refused to take part in any official promotional activities for his sophomore solo album ''Music/ListenWithoutPrejudiceVolume1''. Instead, the official music video for [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=goroyZbVdlo “Praying For Time”]] simply shows the song’s lyrics.

* Music/NineInchNails' music video for "Less Than" features the song's lyrics showing up in Llamasoft's {{Defictionalization}} of ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' while a girl plays. The video contains a specially modified version of the game made for the video.

* The UrExample might be Music/BobDylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0 music video]] (well, actually a promotional clip taken from the beginning of a Bob Dylan tour documentary film, later treated as a standalone video), which is just Dylan in an alleyway, pulling away title cards to show you the lyrics.

Lyric videos are videos meant to show the lyrics to a song while it is playing. Traditionally these are fan-made videos, however by the early 2010s many companies had taken notice to how popular these types of videos are on Website/{{Youtube}} and began producing professional lyric videos. Official lyric videos can range anywhere from text on a still image, to Typographic Music Videos (also known as "Kinetic Typography" or "Typography Versions" for the official ones) where they're text-based but are meant to look visually appealing, to full-length music videos in their own right. Official lyric videos have also been advantageous in reducing Mondegreens.

* Music/McKennaGrace has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y38RCckvWHs&pp=ygUNbWNrZW5uYSBncmFjZQ%3D%3D Checkered Vans]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHN1GHS7bDU Post Party Trauma]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', while certainly not an artist, has a lyric video available of Bowser's VillainLoveSong "Peaches" on the streaming service, DVD, and Blu-Ray releases as a bonus feature.