History of the music video

Flowchart of the history of the music video 

Music videos today....

The MTV logo was designed in 1981 by Manhattan Design.Throughout MTV's early days, the channel's main logo was a large yellow "M" with red letters "TV," but unlike most networks' logos, the MTV logo constantly morphed and adapted with different colors, patterns and images filling in the large block letter. The very first moments of MTV featured an adaptation of the first landing on the moon, directly from NASA still images.

In 1981, when MTV was first invented, it consisted only of 1 channel which would play music videos on loop, but at this time it stubbled to find more than 200 videos to air. Now, MTV has a music channel, a news channel, a channel for shows, a website, competitions and its own chart show. 

The most expensive music video is still ‘SCREAM’ by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, in response to allegations of child sexual abuse against Michael Jackson in 1993, the “Prince of Pop’ composed “Scream” that bewailed the sensationalist journalism practiced by the tabloid press. He sang it with his sister Janet. The video was directed by Mark Romanek, it lasted 4 minutes and 16 seconds and cost $7Million. It was an angry video that featured the siblings flashing the middle finger and Janet grabbing at her breasts and simulating male urination. Japanese anime clips were shown in the background. The video won several awards from the MTV Music Video Awards, the Billboard Music Awards and the Grammy Awards.

                                      

The 10 most memorable music videos are...

1. Hurt - Johnny Cash

2. Thriller - Michael Jackson

3. Buddy Holly - Weezer

4. Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim

5. Everybody Hurts - REM

6. Just - Radiohead

7. Ray of Light - Madonna

 8. It's Oh So Quiet - Bjork

9. Sabotage - Beastie Boys

10. Take On Me - A-Ha

2 recent controversial videos are Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Justin Timberlake's "Tunnel Vision".

Robin Thicke's latest singles ‘blurred lines’ is one of the songs of the summer, but the music video was originally banned by YouTube for featuring three naked female models. The ban has since been lifted.

 Like Robin Thicke, Justin Timberlakes’s tunnel vision s was originally banned by YouTube. A representative for YouTube explained in a statement that the ban was revoked because they 'make exceptions when nudity is presented in an educational, documentary or artistic context.