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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 using their vocal talent, but in addition with their looks or moves.
pandora - Thirty years ago, music video used to be less important then it's nowadays. MTV (Music Television) was the phenomenon that gave a great deal power and importance towards 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 radio stations Star' by The Buggles. As MTV was broadcasting 24-hour-a-day music, videos were needed to be produced. Consequently, music video begun to play an important role in artists' careers. It really is considered that even Madonna's career has been 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 continues to be 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 happen to be become more appreciated for looks instead of their vocal abilities.
musica - Nowadays, the background music video is as important as the song itself, often even deciding the success of a song or artist. Collections of music videos are being sold on tapes or DVDs. Music video's greatest fans are apparently watching them muted in order to enjoy their artistic value, because they consider it to be a new type of art. They take into account that a music video needs to be assessed based on its visual qualities and not on the song quality. It appears that the music 'gurus', corporate managers, have realised the opportunity of using female sex-appeal in videos, therefore this feature will be used excessively as it is more popular for the public.
free music videos - The birth with the music video has established a new type of directors: video directors. MTV started even listing directors with video credits which profession has become increasingly popular. But it seems that most video directors don't specialise in this particular art form, they view it as being just a strike the way to directing a show. Many start directing videos or commercials, hunting the recognition to build an identity and to direct a film. It seems that even video directors admit the truth that a music video is secondary to the song itself.
To conclude, although music video's fans have attempted to elevate this form of entertainment to the title of an talent, the music video is eventually just a work of commerce, going to sell a product: the song.
