Music videos are a precarious combination of art form and commercial necessity, usually hovering somewhere between seen-it-before drudgery and headline-grabbing sensationalism. But now and again a director or artist sees the endless possibilities inherent in the medium and produces something breathtaking. Pour yourself a lemonade and grab your sledgehammer as we take a [...]
In today’s society, is anything even about ingenuity or is it just about making something aesthetically pleasing without any context? With the rise of pink lighting and colourful bubble-gum aesthetics in modern music videos, from the likes of hip hop’s alpha male Drake, Ariana Grande, pop music’s new princess – move over Britney Spears [...]
The history of pop music has spawned many a controversy, from Elvis Presley provocatively swinging his hips on American TV to Lou Reed slipping lyrics about fellatio past unsuspecting BBC censors. The advent of the music video gave extra scope for such controversies to sing and dance their way across our popular consciousness. [...]
