Music Videos

Daft Punk – Digital Love (Animated and Homage to Manga): http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjli3hj0ZkM&ob 

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 The song has references to manga animation, as the video is done in a way to look similar to that style of the Japanese animation that is used to showcase the band in a different way. 

 Eminem Ft Rihanna – Love the Way You Lie (Narrative and Performance): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U&ob 

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 These references to abusive relationships and what life is like for people who are in these types of relationships and it also shows how people react different after splitting up from being in a long term relationship. 

 Oasis – Let There Be Love (in concert and as live): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TqJa0RZOUc 

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 This video shows what a concert environment for a band like Oasis is like.

 Foo Fighters – Walk (Pastiche of Falling Down): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PkcfQtibmU and Falling Down Opening Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYcKvq81-1I

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 This video is a parody of the falling down scene as the Foo Fighters have copied the same scene and was created for comedy aspects for the band this is also there where promoting the movie and also making a fool out of falling down opening scen

 Weird Al Yankovic – Eat It (Parody of Beat it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJjMnHoIBI&ob=av2e
Michael Jackson – Beat it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym0hZG-zNOk&ob=av2n;

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 This song is just used for comedy aspects as well as promoting the original song. Even though it’s a parody to of one of Michael Jackson’s number hit beat it. The song was created and followed the original video with the setting, clothes etc

 Kanye West - Gold Digger (influence of commercials): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY&ob=av2e

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 The video mainly is used for advertising states as the video is very commercial as the first thing we see throughout the video is images of magazine covers.

Thirty Seconds To Mars - The Kill (Bury Me) (referencing – The Shining): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvGCAvOAfM

The Shining trailer  -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cb3ik6zP2I

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 This song is just used for comedy aspects as well as promoting the original song. Even though it’s a parody to of one of Michael Jackson’s number hit beat it. The song was created and followed the original video with the setting, clothes etc

Radiohead - Street Spirit (abstract): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk&ob=av2e

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 This video has been filmed in an abstract style, meaning the video was filmed in black and white. And it doesn’t even go with the lyrics its just the motion of the video how slow it is

The Lonely Island – I’m on a Boat (interpretive): http://www.vevo.com/watch/the-lonely-island/im-on-a-boat/USUV70900588?source=instantsearch

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 The video is interpretive as everything in the video we hear about in the lyrics. For example the video is filmed on a boat and the majority of the song talks about him being on a boat. Whenever something is mentioned in the lyrics we see a clip of it

The Beastie Boys – Sabotage (impressionist): http://www.vevo.com/watch/the-beastie-boys/sabotage/USCA39400003

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 They’re taking mick out of the police. That all police officers have moustaches is shown by the use of fake moustaches. This video is mainly used for comedy and as a joke towards the police officers.

What is a Music Video?

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is considered the first music video. When the song was released in the UK in 1975 the band were on tour abroad and couldn't make it to Top Of The Pops each week when it reached no.1. No-one imagined the record would be so successful (at nearly 9 minutes long it was considered un-radio-friendly and the record company assumed no radio station would play it), and that is when they recorded the video to be played in their absence. Although it looks crap today, at the time it was revolutionary and people couldn't get enough of it. The first video played on MTV was Video Killed The Radio Star (by The Buggles) but not until Michael Jackson's Billie Jean was MTV taken seriously, and seen as an alternative to radio. Until then, music videos consisted mainly of bands grinning at the camera from exotic locations (hands up Duran Duran) or performing badly in a 'captured-on-film' moment. Of course, when Michael Jackson released Thriller (the single) and it's accompanying video/mini-movie (the most requested video of all time) did MTV become the most popular way of discovering the new (certainly in the 80's). I can't imagine that Peter Gabriel's So would have sold in the quantities it did were it not for the video to Sledgehammer. Since then music video has become an art in it's own right, and you only have to watch the work of Michel Gondry (DVD available - The Work Of Director...) to see how imaginative and important the promo video has become. A long way from the fractals of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Queen went on to enjoy the video, and it's interesting to note that when they released 'I Want To Break Free' with its Coronation Street based video, in which the band are all dressed in drag and Freddie Mercury is doing the hoovering, their success in America came to a halt, as American so called sensibilities couldn't cope with 'men' dressed in frocks.

Music Videos!

Music Videos are a big part of our world, especialy to young teens.