Planning Blog - Analysis Of the History Of Music Videos

The main lesson learned from the entire history of the music video is that for a video to be popular and be watched it has to be controversial and break the mould, they had to do something that no one had done before, in the 1930's this was done through the use of black stars and by having women dressed inappropriately for the time dancing provocatively. In the 1950 and 60's it was done in the same way but women would show more skin as it was more accepted at the time. In the late 60's they looked for a new way to be controversial, it was the start of the psychedelic era with a lot of drug use this started to be represented in music videos as the videos became more out of this word and drug influenced. In the 1970's focus was put on breaking the boundaries of sexuality with more and more artists coming out people such as.

-John Harding-