MTV killed the (music) video star

In the 80s MTV was the place to watch your favorite musicians music videos. Near the end of the decade, MTV was shifting it's efforts from just music videos, to music videos and TV shows. Some of the early TV shows, like Beavis and Butt-head, had a time of the show where they would play an actual music video. (But they would just make fun of.) MTV started to play actual TV shows because people would just "tune in and out" like a radio station. They needed to keep viewers interested. And at first, it was a great mix of music videos and TV shows. But, through out the years, it became pretty much just reality TV shows. Now, I am no expert on what is being played on MTV today, but from what I have heard, music videos are a thing of the past on the station (I could be completely wrong there.) But with the way technology has shifted since the birth of MTV, the internet is a great way to watch your favorite musicians music videos. One can go to YouTube and watch music videos, of their choice, for hours on end. The idea of music videos on the internet started because music videos were easy enough to download. Simple as that. Now everyone today jumps on YouTube to watch Taylor Swift's new music video. Not only can you watch today's music videos on YouTube, you can watch pretty much every music video ever made throughout history.

In 1894, or 1895 the first ever music video was ever made. It was called "The Dickson Experimental Sound Film".The idea was just to play music over a video clip. This blew my mind. I always though music videos were something to come out of the roarin' 20's. But it wasn't really till the 50's when music videos really exploded and it was easier to watch them on your brand spankin' new black and white television! Big Bopper is credited for the first music video, but that is a common misconception. But, he did spark the idea for others to create music videos. The 60's and 70's were an experimental time for music videos. With creative bands like The Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, and Bob Dylan brought a new light on the subject of music videos. And of course, the 80's. This was a time where everyone was able to jump in and make their own videos. At first, music videos were an expensive rarity to make, but as the time went on, it became cheap for bands to make a basic idea video. I believe we have not seen the end of music videos, I think they are going to soar to a new height and blow our minds, again.