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Thanks to a little something cable television introduced in the early 80's called MTV, a new marketing concept for the music industry was born with a video called "Video Killed the Radio Star" when, in reality, radio experienced a renaissance because music videos gave new life to the recording industry. Couch potatoes saw a video that appealed to them and it made them want to go out and buy the record. The secret in an effective music video is picking a correct concept that will enhance the appeal of the recording. Sometimes, a song doesn't need a lot of help and a video of the artists performing the song in front of a camera is enough. Sometimes a song needs a concept or a story behind the video to make the song a little easier to understand. If the song is part of a motion picture score, sometimes the video will simply consist of clips from the movie. Whatever concept is chosen, the music video revitalized the music industry and thanks to the internet and web sites like You Tube, records that were recorded before the 1980's now have videos, but I will try to keep from those here. I will also try to steer away from the videos that are just movie clips. This will be look at videos where an original concept, however simple or elaborate it might be or songs that I like and the video stayed out of the way. WARNING: If you are not a fan of Madonna or Michael Jackson, you should just stay away from this thread because these two artists took this relatively new entertainment form and completely reinvented it and a large portion of this thread will be devoted to them. So grab your earphones and prepare for my list of my favorite music videos:
Last edited by Gideon58; 02-04-16 at 08:18 PM.
