Thursday 11.08.14
Advances in technology turned music videos in what it is today. Music videos have been around since 1920. A Jazz musician such as Bessie Smith who sung St Louis Blues, made short films to accompany popular songs.
1965: Bob Dylan Film: Subterranean Homesick Blues was created as one of the first modern music video which was a form of lyric videos like we have in modern days on YouTube where people can upload anything so that people all over the world can watch them.
Pop music TV shows in 1970: the record industry discovers TV shows which are a great opportunity to promote their artists. They focus on producing short 'promos' early music videos started to replace the live performance of the artist on the TV stage. However some videos do not have artists in it but other people and things which could be considered as a new genre that is coming out.
Bohemian Rhapsody 1975: ground breaking video released by Queen. At the beginning of the video the era is set. The video was one of the first to use advanced visual effects which was exciting in 1975. At that time the video would have been controversial like today Blurred Lines is controversial with the type of video they shot.
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