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Does the genre of the music determine the style of the video

            Music videos are made entirely to promote the song, though through doing this they make people more aware and the genre of the song, and the story line. .
             But does the genre of the music really determine the style of the video? Can all music videos be sorted into groups? This essay is going to be discussing this in response to several music videos.
             It is noticeable that the heavier bands, such as "Nirvana", "InMe" and the "Foo Fighters" all have videos of themselves playing. This is because they wrote all the lyrics and music for their songs and they actually pride themselves on being able to play instruments such as the guitar, bass guitar and drums. This is means they want to prove to the public they are proper music bands and want to show everyone that they have talent.
             Whereas the rap bands such as "Ja Rule" are shown prancing around with skimpily dressed women in flashing bright lights. They also show themselves driving around in smart cars and going clubbing. This is to make them seem popular and rich, as well as extremely important. They do not show themselves playing instruments as they cannot actually play any instruments. They have the music playing over the top and sometimes don't even have themselves miming to it. They do not consider this to be important. .
             These kinds of videos are rather predictable and not very imaginative. They are made to promote a gangster style of living, and to make themselves look rich and important, but they do not promote the song greatly as the lyrics only rarely match the video.
             It is noticeable that the heavier rock bands show themselves in filtered light but the rappers show themselves in bright flashing lights. This is because the rock bands want to look dark and mysterious, but the rappers want to looks important and rich.
             But of course there are many other types of music aside from rap and rock. .
             "My united states of whatever" by "Liam Lynch" is a good example of this as it is neither rock nor rap.


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