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The 1980s were the big bang of music videos—a cosmic explosion of creativity, technology and straight-up weirdness. With the launch of MTV in 1981, some artists used the visual art form to sell sex, ...

President Donald Trump is usually animated on Twitter, but tonight, he actually became a cartoon. The President tweeted a short black-and-white animated video in the ...

Back when MTV played music, a music video had the power to make a song more popular. (See also: $,$$$,$$$). In Millennial terms, the song would go “viral” on network television. Artists quickly ...

he video for Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes’ “Nightrider” featuring Freddie Gibbs opens with a familiar scene: Three friends drive down a road in a burnt orange convertible, smoking and vibing out to the ...

Artists still make music videos to promote their work, but it’s a much different world out there from when every new clip premiered with Ballyhoo on a channel called MTV (which still exists but is a ...

The network formerly known for playing “Video Music” (and inventing “reality television”) turns thirty today, and while many can complain it is showing some signs of aging (Where are the music videos?

The 1980s saw a music video boom and with it came the further exploitation of women in music. For decades prior, women had been used as tools – plastered across album covers and heralded as mere ...