You can't escape it; music videos will find a way to drain the coolness from any new idea until it becomes as tacky as a mullet. Let us pay tribute to the six innovative ideas that music videos have turned into utter clichés.

6. Bands Playing in Weird Locations

Hey, why is the band playing inside a whale? Because seeing them on stage gets repetitive and all the other "cool" and "plausible" locations were taken by other bands. Now, no meat locker, cave or spaceship is safe from invasion.

Worst Offender: Mudvayne - Not Falling

Why it Needs to Stop

The first bands that showed themselves in non-traditional locations were innovators; now it's pretty much required if you want to be taken seriously. Bands seem to think that we judge their music based on which mountain they're playing on. This is silly, we are far too intelligent to be swayed by scenery - gives us girls with big boobies instead.

5. The Rain Scene

Rain is used to enhance or convey the dramatic or emotional nature of a scene. Just adding rain to a random scene in your music video accomplishes nothing except creating a bunch of soggy groupies (okay, so it is good for that). This gratuitous use of rain has basically one result - we have to get up to pee far more often while watching MTV.

Worst Offender: Simple Plan - Untitled

Why it Needs to Stop

Between movies and real life, we've had all the rain we can take. Can we see a dry music video for a change? Wet musicians do not sound better - the firm, man nipples don't help either.

4. Featuring:

Nowadays, there are more people on screen than on the production crew. At any point in time, three of the people on screen will be P. Diddy. Evidently there's some math at work here: if one artist has a certain amount of credibility, we need to keep adding additional artists until a required level of power is met. Kind of like a Mega Zord of celebrities!

Alternatively, you are adding more guys to your video because each of them brings a unique skillet to the table. For instance, maybe one guy is the best at being misogynistic and the other guy yells the word "Yeah" better than anyone else.

Worst Offender: Eminem Feat. D12 & 50 Cent - Rap Game

Why it Needs to Stop

By the time each artist has finished doing their "shout-outs", about 7 seconds are left in the song. This is not nearly enough time to smack some hos and throw cash around. The ho-smacking alone really should occupy at least 30 seconds.

Worse still, having more people in a video also lowers the celebrity status of each person. To illustrate, can you name anyone from Three 6 Mafia? Now imagine a video with Three 6 Mafia featuring G-Unit and D12. Nametags please!