Jerome Weeks points out a trend-in-formation: literal video, which is something like Situationism minus Marx plus YouTube:
It’s a form of satire that seems to work best with the more inflated, ‘80s or ‘90s pop-rock videos, the ones that were developed as little storytelling movies, even though the “movies” had little to do with the song itself or seemed patently pretentious, with or without the song. In short, there’s a profound disjuncture among the posturing twit-lead singer, what he’s supposedly singing about and what’s going on all around him. As they used to say about political photo-ops: It doesn’t matter what the candidate is saying, it’s the background he’s in front of and how he looks….
In a literal video, the lyrics provide a running description of what is happening onscreen—commentary that, as Jerome says, “repeatedly calls attention to (and calls into question) the video’s image choices, making them appear laughably random. Or it subverts any greater, intended import they might have by flatly describing the images and thus “grounding” or re-contextualizing them in a more self-consciously ‘down-to-earth’ matter, while actually presenting a wise-ass commentary on them.”
A good description, which I quote so that there is some filling in this entry before we go on to the next video.
Situ-speak might call this detournment, though Jerome suggests the British expression “taking the piss” instead.