A music video is a short film or movie that is created in order to promote the artist's music that accompanies the video.
The first music videos were in black and white and showed film of machinery.
As the 60s and 70s came there was a great advancement in the music video with artists such as Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd made film length music videos which were very popular such as their hit album The Wall. (1979)
The 80s saw bands and artists such as Nirvana, David Bowie and The Beastie Boys.
The beastie Boys had a hit single Sabotage which was also released as a music video. They also created a number of longer music videos/films which were very popular.
The 90s saw Fatboy Slim who had successful music videos such as Praise You which broke the 'normal' view of the music video as it was filmed all on a video camera and was of a load of people dancing in the street.
In 2000 bands such as Coldplay and Kings of Leon were making music videos. Another band called Gorillaz had also formed at this time and were unlike most normal bands as their artists were all cartoon charaters. The music videos that they made such as Clint Eastwood and Feel Good Inc were all animated and was a large step for music video progression.
In the past few years, artists like Lady Gaga are pushing boundaries with music videos making them more sexualized. For example Lady Gaga's song Bad Romance was heavily sexualised and some people think that it is not appropriate for the younger generation viewing them.
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