video killed the radio starrrr

I LOVE MUSIC!
     I just love love listening to it. I'm one of those people who likes to have music on basically all of the time. It's just fascinating how it can set a mood and how it's used in different ways. Now, music videos are something I'm still getting into. My problem is I don't normally have the patience to watch them; I just like to hear the song and sing to it. But I find it really interesting how directors take this other artists' song and do something totally new with it. It's like passing along artwork. Sometimes the music videos tell a story along with the song, other times they really just make absolutely no sense whatsoever. 

     What else that has always fascinated me, and don't ask why, is how music (and culture in general) has changed radically throughout the decades. Of the videos we watched today, I think we can all agree that there were some strange ones. What I enjoyed was how once we got the the 50's ish decade and up, the videos all had a certain vibe to them. There was that Apache video which was... really fringy and really special. Then there was 'Video Killed the Radio Star', which was sooo MTV and though I didn't know that that was the first video they showed on that channel, I'm not surprised. Then there's the lovely age of the 80's, with big hair, synchronizers, and just a lot of weird stuff goin on in general. I loved the Take On Me video; I'd never seen the whole thing, but I had seen clips before. I was watching a special on VH1 once where they were doing a countdown of the top 100 80's videos or something, and I think that that was voted as number one, or at least in the top five. I admire the use of drawing and live action together; it was really smooth and well done. 90's came and went... what a time to be alive. There's something about 90's style that I just can't explain. Ideas were definitely expanding and traditions were being broken. Today we have some really cool and innovative ideas with our videos as technology allows us to expand our creative horizons, as seen in the OK Go videos. Totally mind-blowing.
    In general, as time has gone on I feel like music videos have always been a way to really bring people together and also a way to celebrate the art of music, film, and most of all, expression.