I. Music Videos: the use of T.V. frames and imitation/pastiche/parody

A. the use of T.V. frame --

• Dire Strait --  "Money for Nothing, Chicks for Free"
• Michael Jackson's "Black or White"
• Janet Jackson -- "If"

• 'Weird Al' Yankovic of M. Jackson,
• ¶ÀµÎÂ@ -- R.E.M. "Losing My Religion" -- ?

Fat (lyric and annotation)     by 'Weird Al' Yankovic
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