Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Top 10 Ridiculous 1980s Music Videos" video.

  1. While bands had been doing “promotional films/videos” since the ‘60s (used to get more attention to a band since they can’t tour everywhere; the Beatles pioneered moving it from just the band pantomiming the song to something more artsy), the “music video” for MTV was almost a new thing in the ‘80s since there was no definitive way to do it.
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