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Some History Facts on Music Videos

Music videos represent a crucial part of the music industry. Artists owe their careers to videos as they are being given the chance of impressing the public not just making use of their vocal talent, but additionally with their looks or moves.

free online music - 30 years ago, music video was once less important then its nowadays. MTV (Music Television) was the phenomenon that gave a lot power and importance for the music video. MTV started broadcasting in 1981 in the USA and it marked the start of the music video's ruling over the music industry. The first video ever played on MTV was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by The Buggles. As MTV was broadcasting 24-hour-a-day music, music videos were needed to be produced. Consequently, music video started to play an important role in artists' careers. It's considered that even Madonna's career continues to be greatly influenced by her videos that presented an alluring, appealing look of the artist. Some professionals state that Madonna has been inspired through the image that the actress Greta Garbo has used in her silent movies. MTV has been highly controversial: some saw as the beginning of an amazing, new, fresh era in music, others considered it to mark the end of true musical talent, as artists have been become more appreciated for their looks instead of their vocal abilities.

mtv - Nowadays, the background music video is as essential as the song itself, often even deciding the success of an audio lesson or artist. Collections of music videos are being sold on tapes or DVDs. Music video's greatest fans are apparently watching them muted just to enjoy their artistic value, because they consider it to be a new kind of art. They consider that a music video ought to be assessed based on its visual qualities and never on the song quality. It seems that the music 'gurus', corporate managers, have realised the opportunity of using female sex-appeal in music videos, therefore this feature will be used excessively because it is more popular for the public.

pandora - The birth from the music video has generated a new type of directors: video directors. MTV started even listing directors with video credits and also this profession has become ever more popular. But it seems that most video directors don't concentrate on this particular art form, they view it as being just a strike the way to directing a film. Many start directing videos or commercials, hunting the recognition to build an identity and to direct a movie. It seems that even video directors admit the fact a music video is secondary for the song itself.

To conclude, although music video's fans have tried to elevate this form of entertainment towards the title of an art, the music video is eventually just a work of commerce, determined to sell a product: the song.