Music Video History Project

16Apr11

A few years ago I wrote a paper about music video history for college.

While most of the music video world is concerned with the promotion of a song some directors consider their creations artistic endeavors. Music videos are short enough to have an impact yet long enough to allow for the construction of a coherent story. There are components every music video must contain but there are countless paths a director might take to achieve balance between promotion of the artist and expression of the music. (Fauser 2008)

I always wanted to expand it :)

I will start by making a rough outline of topics and songs I wish to cover and we will go from there using these ideas as chapters in BLASTEDGOAT’S MUSIC VIDEO HISTORY PROJECT!

• My favorite videos of all time
• Coolest conceptual videos
• Performance/promotional videos (expansion of original thesis)
• Death of the music video?
• Rebirth of the music video
• Worst music videos EVER!
• Best lyrics/worst lyrics
• Strangest videos/artists

Tell me what kind of subjects you would like to see covered in the comments! I will provide links to each song via YouTube video. This means the links could become outdated if copyright issues occur with a specific user but I will try to keep them as updated as possible.

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Tags: band, educational, interpretation, music video