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This type of music video, rather than featuring the band performing the song, is presented as a visual narrative. These can be original stories, homages to a favorite TV show or movie, or anything else the performer or director comes up with. The video can also directly relate to the story of a [[Concept Album]]. |
This type of music video, rather than featuring the band performing the song, is presented as a visual narrative. These can be original stories, homages to a favorite TV show or movie, or anything else the performer or director comes up with. The video can also directly relate to the story of a [[Concept Album]]. |
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[[Concept Video]]s are a signature of the early-'80s "Golden Age" of [[MTV]]. |
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Often these make use of [[Talky Bookends]]. |
Often these make use of [[Talky Bookends]]. |
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* [[Michael Jackson]] |
* [[Michael Jackson]] was one of the kings, though ''not'' the originator, of this type of video. |
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** "Thriller": Where a date turns into a real, live, dancing horror movie. |
** "Thriller": Where a date turns into a real, live, dancing horror movie. |
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** "Bad": Features Mike as a young man coming home from a prep school, and confronting his old friends from the 'hood. |
** "Bad": Features Mike as a young man coming home from a prep school, and confronting his old friends from the 'hood. |
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