Music Videos: i missed this class where we watched some of the vids, and i dont' know what take or opinions that were expressed during it, but here's my opinion, and blog.

kk, starting off, lets shoot up a definition: A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when MTV (Music Television)'s format was based around them.

There we have it: The industry i feel is really really dissapointing, especially for the main stream bands, not even sure if they get a say in the matter of how the music video portrays or even works. Also, with the mainstream, there's a ton of artists who don't even make their own music or lyrics, they get a little input or whatever, it's all about fame and money in that part. Whatever will get the little mtv teeny boppers to go 'that's so hot'. What's also pathetic is when they have a band that's actually good for an interview on mtv to show their debut music video and they don't even know anything about the band, and make many mistakes. come on, it's television.

Some more background is alot of times the label picks out the singles on the record, rather then the artist having a say in the matter, therefore, they can be thrown into making a video they dont' wanna portray as the band's 'this is how we sound or want to show you who we really are' type.


let's skip around and try not to have a point while talking about this. ok. sex is fun. it's doing awesome in the music video part as well as movies. let's dance with barely any clothes on. it's gets the pple watching. this is a given in a ton of music videos. but that doesn't mean we should dismiss some of them, there's a bunch out there that actually have some merit and freakn cool ideas for 'art' if you will. let's get krunk g unit.

art keeps changing, there's always room for new ideas, but there in the mediums with music videos, theres a bunch that have been done, that don't see the light of day. thank you al gore , for the internet, that is. Radiohead although not a big fan, have some cool 2d animation vids. 3d's with the cool little blue and red glasses, then computer animation is all over the boards. With the effx department advancing with technology, who knows what's gonna be next, but it'll be a ball yo.

but it's a real treat when the artist themselves actually take part or even just create the movie. this is when you actually get to peer into the artists head. or what they want you to believe or evoke out of the song. gotta love those.

ending, i'm not gonna throw out a bunch of music videos that i think are cool, because alot of times i feel they really screwed em up or didn't potray the song at all, i'm not saying that you don't need art in videos. cause alot of todays music vids are just the band playing, which is a sad waste for such beautful songs coming out. sometimes too, the song can make the video good, sometimes, the video can make the song, it's just interesting how it plays out like that sometimes. oh yeah, this never made a point or reached it. so dont' worry about it.