A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a piece of music. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into prominence in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around the medium. The first ever video was Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles. Although music videos were a new development, a lot of controversies surrounded music videos as many thought it was a new era for pop music, however some believed it took away the importance of the artists voice and forces you to concentrate on their looks and the actual image.
Thriller by Michael jackson was a 14 minute music video released in 1983 and was voted most influential music video of all time. Also his album Thriller is considered to be the best-selling album of all time. Thriller included a lot of intertextual references to horror films and used a lot of homage and pastiche elements of other films and combinding it with his music and dancing to create a feature film music video. His music videos were seen as a revolution for all music videos.
Thriller - Music Video
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