Music Videos

Hello, this blog is going to discuss music videos. More specifically, I want to highlight the sensibility, cleverness, and overall appearance of music videos. Have you ever heard the song before you saw the music video and visualized how the video might look? Well I have done that plenty of times, and some songs have definitely tricked me. I think it would be one way when it actually ended up being completely different. However, the videos that come out exactly how I pictured it makes me feel satisfied because I feel as though I understood the song. In a way I think videos are necessary to visually show the meaning of a song, and sometimes its a teaching method for a new dance. Some examples of these different types of videos are................ 

Songs such as: "Walk it Out" by UNK, "You're A Jerk" by New Boyz, and  "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," these songs include a dance that teaches the audience how to do them. Each dance earned huge props from its fans and some fans even uploaded videos on YouTube attempting to do the dance. Many times, proms and clubs play the song and people perform the appropriate dance to the correct song. Because of the popularity of the dances, I believe those videos are pretty clever and successful. Since I usually focus on R&B and Hip hop music, I wanted to switch it up and blend country music into the mix. The songs "You Belong With Me" and "Love Story" by Taylor Swift both turned out to be exactly how I anticipated because the video actually included things that the lyrics were about. On the other hand, music videos such as Jazmine Sullivan's song "Bust Your Windows," did not meet my expectations at all. I expected to see Sullivan destroy and vandalize a car, and instead she vandalized the house. I was pretty upset that she did not destroy the car because that is what the song was about. Another video that I thought of is Drake's song called "Best I Ever Had," I loved the song, but the video did not make any sense to me. His lyrics were about a girl that he loves and that she is the best he ever had, while the music video contained girls playing basketball, which I didn't understand. To me, the music video did not match the song and that kind of made me question the meaning of the song (however I still believe the song is about a girl he loves).

  However a music video turned out to be, maybe the artists wanted to be creative and do something unexpected. Either way, the artists are making money so the fact of the music videos sensibility doesn't affect their pay check.