Women In Music
Music videos have been a part of the music scene after the creation of Mtv. Since Mtv's introduction as part of the "pop" culture, it has evolved to include all types of music, from rock -n- roll to love songs to hip-hop. Videos used to help the listeners/fans interpret the artists' songs, now the videos just have nothing to do with the song itself. Such as some hip-hop video, where the "ladies" are wearing nearly nothing, and are just running around trying to get more camera time. Unfortunately, in the past couple of years, these types of videos have become more and more popular. Not that I have a problem with it, but the videos after a while seem to repeat themselves.All these videos are the work of promoters and record labels in an effort to sell more and more albums. Sometimes the artists have their hands tied in the way the music is promoted. These marketing tactics are probably dictated by someone in an office in some building in New York. But a
Those days of watching hip-hop videos where the artist actually has creative control of the direction of the video are long gone. It seems that the bigger the car, the bigger the watch, the bigger the house, the better the video, and therefore tries to trick you to automatically think that the song is actually good. Now there are some of these videos that have a nice beat to them, or they have meaningful words or messages, but these songs and videos are the minority nowadays and it is dangerous to think that with this new generation of hip hop artists backed by lots of money (maybe via Sean "Puffy" Combs) to wage war against the current number one. What ever happened to videos that tried to accurately portray what the artists are trying to say? Unfortunately it’s an attempt by record producers, and label owners to sell more records at any costs. Whether it be by putting more of these ladies in the video, or by putting more diamonds on the artists. It is a real shame, because
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