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10 music videos that helped MTV become essential viewing
Far Out Magazine highlights ten music videos it considers pivotal to MTV’s rise as essential viewing, arguing that the channel made visual presentation central to pop music. The selection emphasises videos that turned artists into cultural figures and demonstrated music video’s potential for storytelling, style and technical innovation.
– The article presents MTV as a force that reshaped music promotion and viewing habits. – Its choices span major pop, rock and alternative artists associated with memorable visual identities. – It argues that these videos helped establish music television as an influential cultural platform.
In short
- MTV made music videos a major cultural force
- Visual ambition helped turn songs into events
- The list celebrates formative MTV-era videos
Explained simply
MTV launched in the United States in 1981 as a television channel devoted to music videos. Viewers could watch a steady stream of clips, giving songs a visual identity as well as a sound.
Record companies and artists began using videos to introduce music and shape how audiences saw performers. Some clips became widely recognised for their storytelling, distinctive style or technical ambition, helping make music videos a major part of pop culture.