02-20-2023, 09:55 AM
Music videos have been a reliable source of commentary and controversy since the moment they began to exist. But as much as can be said about the more typical things in this medium, like MTV, or actual music videos, I want to ensure the scope of the discussion is expanded to include everything within the category of "combining sound and images", including AMVs/VGMVs, experimental films, tiktok, twitter "edits", whatever else you can think of that focuses specifically on the effect music has on moving pictures.
The hypnotic effect caused by combining the two is increasingly a defining artistic feature of our era. Music itself is already starting to bend around the demands of video and more visual mediums...tiktok being a primary engine of music discovery for many people now, and I think the results speak for themselves. It's clear that even minor visual aids to accompanying music make the current generations more capable of receiving it, and may as well be making the music sound BETTER.
Many individual artists in this medium are worth discussing as well. Michael Jackson is one person who has come up many times in chats about mass culture and the visual and kinetic component to his music and perfornances is certainly unquestionable. Many film makers also often indulge in what is essentially just music video, and this can be very influential on the art of cinema itself.
Not knowing where to begin here I will leave off with a simple one by NobodyTM, a contemporary rightward artist whose work is a deep exploration of this paradigm. There will be a proper post about him later on this thread, but for now the OP is going to remain broad.
The hypnotic effect caused by combining the two is increasingly a defining artistic feature of our era. Music itself is already starting to bend around the demands of video and more visual mediums...tiktok being a primary engine of music discovery for many people now, and I think the results speak for themselves. It's clear that even minor visual aids to accompanying music make the current generations more capable of receiving it, and may as well be making the music sound BETTER.
Many individual artists in this medium are worth discussing as well. Michael Jackson is one person who has come up many times in chats about mass culture and the visual and kinetic component to his music and perfornances is certainly unquestionable. Many film makers also often indulge in what is essentially just music video, and this can be very influential on the art of cinema itself.
Not knowing where to begin here I will leave off with a simple one by NobodyTM, a contemporary rightward artist whose work is a deep exploration of this paradigm. There will be a proper post about him later on this thread, but for now the OP is going to remain broad.