Music Videos People Still Talk About Decades Later A great music video can do more than promote a single. It can turn a song ...

The brilliant and cathartic release and the characters demand to finally be seen resonated strongly in the MTV era, too.

When MTV debuted in 1981, it ushered in a golden era of music videos. The network’s launch was groundbreaking for artists everywhere. Suddenly, music was no longer a purely audible medium. Visuals ...

The 1980s were a pivotal time in the music industry as the decade served as a transition period, saw the emergence of new genres, and the music video reigned supreme. However, many consider 1985 to be ...

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 ...

In 1985, two groundbreaking works of animation could be viewed, sometimes in the same hour, on MTV. One was “Take On Me,” the A-ha video in which a woman (actress Bunty Bailey) gets yanked out of a ...