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Some History Facts on Videos

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

pandora - 30 years ago, music video used to be less important then its nowadays. MTV (Music Television) was the phenomenon that gave a great deal power and importance for the music video. MTV started broadcasting almost 30 years ago 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 air Star' by The Buggles. As MTV was broadcasting 24-hour-a-day music, music videos were needed to be produced. Consequently, music video begun 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 from the image that the actress Greta Garbo has used in her silent movies. MTV may be highly controversial: some saw since 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.

musica - Nowadays, the music video is as essential as the song itself, frequently 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 take into consideration that a music video should be assessed based on its visual qualities and never on the song quality. It seems that the music 'gurus', corporate managers, have realised the potential for using female sex-appeal in music videos, therefore this feature has been used excessively as it is more popular for the public.

musica - The birth of the music video has created a new type of directors: video directors. MTV started even listing directors with video credits which profession has become more and more popular. But it seems that most video directors don't focus on this particular art form, they notice as being just a strike the way to directing a film. Many start directing videos or commercials, hoping to get the recognition to build a reputation and to direct a show. It seems that even video directors admit the fact that a music video is secondary towards the song itself.

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