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| Why did (or do) nusic videos have nothing to do with the music? by Tansin A. Darcos 08/29/2022, 6:18am PDT | ||||
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| I have seen many music videos where the song and the video have almost nothing in common with each other. I'm not talking about music videos that do not show the band playing, I mean where they tell a story, but the story has nothing to do with the video.
U mean, I like Aha's Take on Me video, and except for the scenes of the band playing, the fantasy of the lead singer being chased by cartoon thugs really doesn't have much, except he is singing it to her, so ir barely qualifies as related to the song. Now, The Clash's Rock the Casbah is a story-telling music video where the video is related to the story of the song. "Weird Al" Yankovic's Like a Surgeob has the story perfectly matching the video. I think this was mostly back in the '80's and '90's when "artistes" tried to do "message" videos to show what were the weirdest things they could do, subject to not getting arrested and it meets the conditions of MTV/VH1's Standards and Practices department to be shown. On the other hand, the perfect example of this trope is Harry Styles Adore You where Harry is running all over creation to save a goldfish and the only way the song could have anything to do with it is if he wanted to fuck it. In fact, I could do a whole article about what's wrong with the song. I probably will, too. |
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Why did (or do) nusic videos have nothing to do with the music? by 08/29/2022, 6:18am PDT  Re: Why did (or do) nusic videos have nothing to do with the music? by 08/29/2022, 8:55am PDT I like it when strippers lip sync the songs in rock videos rather than the band NT by 09/02/2022, 3:22pm PDT |
