Famous Artists in Music Videos Where They Don’t Sing

Have you ever been watching a music video and noticed a famous face pop up, even though it’s not their song? I remember teenage me being pleasantly surprised to see Justin Timberlake make a cameo at the end of Promiscuous by Nelly Furtdado. When worlds collide!

The more I dug into the topic, the more examples I found of famous popstars making appearances in music videos by other artists, even though they’re not featured on the song itself.

In this playlist of more than 30 videos below, you can spot many a famous face including:

• Katy Perry in Taylor Swift’s You Need to Calm Down and Cupid Chokehold by Gym Class Heroes.
• Selena Gomez and Ellie Goulding in Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood.
• Justin Timberlake in Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado and Elton John’s This Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore.
• Joe Jonas in Boys by Charli XCX.
• Kesha in Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl.
• Rebecca Black in Katy Perry’s Last Friday Night (TGIF).
• Justin Bieber in Carly Rae Jepsen’s I Really Like You and Drake’s Popstar.
• Drake in Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda.
• Rihanna in Paranoid by Kanye West.
• Grimes in Need to Know by Doja Cat.
• Stevie Knicks in Bootylicious by Destiny’s Child.
• Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams in Beyonce’s Get Me Bodied.
• Everyone including Beyonce in Bitch I’m Madonna.
• …and more!

Artists in Videos With No Vocal

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