Some self-referential music videos
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star Appropriately, the first music video ever shown on MTV was a song about music videos. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing Another music video about music videos, also referencing the channel where it was first introduced. U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name The Joshua Tree was one of my first CDs, but I only recently discovered the self-referential nature of its music video: not just the band performing the song, but doing so live on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles, including local news coverage of the event, and footage of the LAPD monitoring the situation and preparing to shut things down if the crowd got out of hand. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence Another of my first CDs was Violator , and I watched this music video early on. Dave Gahan, wearing a kingly robe, walks through various otherwise uninhabited scenic locations, carrying a "throne" (deck chair) with him and eventually sitting down in it to take in the view. Steve Pe