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What happened to music videos?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 12:46 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 12:46 pm
Music videos used to tell the song's story, but lately, they show the artists singing on a set or in the studio. With the death of MTV and VH1, do artists no longer produce watchable music videos?
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Posted on 7/15/25 at 1:04 pm to Skenes
I see plenty of new traditional music videos today. It's just that we've moved away from watching channels that show music videos all the time.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 1:13 pm to SUB
I was watching YouTube while I was working out at home. It seems that every new song has a guy on a stool in a recording studio at their concert, while many of the older ones tell the song's story.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:01 pm to Skenes
Here’s some Great New Videos
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Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:21 pm to Skenes
The same thing that happened to record sales, streaming.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 6:18 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 3:24 pm to Skenes
I still watch music videos on YouTube. I also watch a lot of concerts sometimes even live. There’s as much music video content coming now as there’s ever been…probably even more.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 4:49 pm to Decatur
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There’s as much music video content coming now as there’s ever been…probably even more.
Yeah, but finding it requires a little effort...which is more than most of the general populace can muster.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 5:24 pm to Skenes
Plenty of traditional-ly music videos on social media. The streaming age has disrupted the monetary stream in the industry, though, so promotional budgets are a fraction of what they were.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 11:45 pm to Skenes
Bring Me The Horizon has put out some absolute bangers of music videos the last few years.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 5:36 am to Skenes
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Music videos used to tell the song's story, but lately, they show the artists singing on a set or in the studio.
There were tons of performance/faux performance videos back in the day, but otherwise, I feel your pain.
Music is mostly astro-turfed and pre-fab now. There was always an element of that back in the day, but because the didn't have the tools to conceal/overwrite lack of talent, what happened through the 90s and early 00s was that there was a filter or funnel and the (I'm not going to say best here) folks with talent and the right style for the time would rise to the top, generally. Now it is all pre-selected and homogenized because most hit pop songs are written by the same group of 40 or so professional songwriters. The suits just pick who gets to record them.
Legacy acts are just doing updated live versions of videos. It is somewhat interesting that some legacy acts are having videos made of older songs that didn't get them (e.g. Elton John's Tiny Dancer in 2017, Pink Floyd DSOM just last year for the 50th anniversary).
It is a fertile ground for filmmakers if the licensing issues can be dealt with.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 8:26 am to lionward2014
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Bring Me The Horizon has put out some absolute bangers of music videos the last few years.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 8:32 am to Saint Alfonzo
I usually get down voted for posting his stuff, but The Weeknd always puts out cool videos. Many cinematic influences in all his music.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 8:51 am to Skenes
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do artists no longer produce watchable music videos?
There's this fresh new format now called YouTube.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 9:56 am to Cdawg
Artists don’t have the budget to make videos like the record companies used to pay for. It’s all DIY now.
Just out of curiosity I looked it up and the video for Estranged by GnR cost $4,000,000
Just out of curiosity I looked it up and the video for Estranged by GnR cost $4,000,000
Posted on 7/16/25 at 10:25 am to TTB
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Artists don’t have the budget to make videos like the record companies used to pay for. It’s all DIY now.
Just out of curiosity I looked it up and the video for Estranged by GnR cost $4,000,000
You can shoot film quality stuff on your phone nowadays. If you want to fly helicopters around and blow shite up, that still costs money.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 11:49 am to Skenes
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Skenes
BTW nice job in the All-Star Game last night
Posted on 7/16/25 at 4:56 pm to Skenes
They had to kill Headbangers Ball to destroy white suburban culture.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 4:59 pm to Decatur
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probably even more.
There's way, way more. You can find multiple concerts, videos, interviews, documentaries etc on almost any artist.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 6:53 pm to Skenes
Even in its heyday, there were basic types of videos on MTV - the performance video, the concept/story video, and some dance videos. Occasionally you'd get something weird/different.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 9:16 pm to A12 Oxcart
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