Video and the Radio Star

I really enjoyed the abridged history of music video. I had seen a lot of the more recent ones before, but it was also a lot of fun to see things I had never seen before. I mean, who can forget the dancing pig?

The evolution of the form of music video was really interesting too, how it progressively became more of a story than just the people singing the music. And the change in production value as things went on. However it seems there will generally be about two kinds of videos now - the ones that actually try to tell a good story, and the ones that just show random stuff, almost like the literal music video we watched. I prefer the ones that tell a story, or if they are random they at least need to be artistically random or have some decent effects to them.

The reading was very revealing as to how much MTV has changed. Even now its known more for its cheap reality tv shows than for actual music videos. Youtube has definitely become the premiere place for music video. Its interesting that they say in the article that music videos aren't a huge event anymore, like Thriller was in the 80s. That basically no one cares anymore. I would argue that while many do go by mainly unseen by the majority of the public, there are definitely still music videos out there that have an influence like Thriller did in our modern culture. Gangnam Style definitely comes to mind, as well as works by the like of Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, and Imagine Dragons. It might not be exactly like it was before, but I don't think music videos and their influence are going anywhere anytime soon.