I noticed that a lot of MVs are getting more value production lately, compare to 4-5 years ago.

Is it just me or do you notice it too?

Well MV makes the 80% of song promo, what more do you expect?

^agree, the EOG videos is terrible and didn't help the song at all.

Being someone who has been watching music videos for 15 years now, I feel like videos have been are getting cheaper.

Of course there are always huge stars who put out expensive videos but especially for third and fourth singles
videos seem a lot cheaper.

You're right. As album longevity continues to decline the later videos seem to have low budgets.
-Don't Stop The Party
-Cheers

Everybody knows that Gaga brang the music videos back

What has Gaga brought to Music Videos that hadn't been there before?

Sex? Done.
Death? Done.
Les/Gay/Bi themes? Done.
Death? Done.
Murder? Done.
Death? Done.

I think the editing and CGI technique, such as optical flares, color correction, transition....etc.

added up a lot of what you called「production value」.

But that doen't mean music videos are more expensive, nowadays, they are cheaper as I recalled.

Back from what...?!

But I'd say she def. raised the bar.

Which makes it all the more sad that I can't enjoy them on my large-screen TV anymore.

For the most part, no. They appear to be getting more and more low budget, with the exception of a select few elite artists (Britney, Gaga, etc.) Only K-Pop artists still deliver flashy videos on a consistent basis.

No, but the quality sure has decreased.

Pretty much this.

I say that mid 2000s video quality started dropping because YouTube became popular and with music videos rapidly disappearing from MTV, and it became harder and harder for music videos to make profit, so therefore, the budgets got smaller.

I think the quality is slowly starting to go up in the past year, thanks to Vevo, but the quality is still obviously lower than 10 years ago.


I kind of agree with this actually, at least back during TF and TFM era. Before that, there was much less demand for high concept/high budget videos.


I really wish they released budgets for music videos... Wasn't the last reported million dollar+ mv Kanye West's Stronger? And the last music video budget ive heard being released was Britney's Womanizer and it was $236,000

Someone Like You video has so much production value

Yeah, it really has.

I only check for Britney and Gaga videos.

I REALLY hate videos with 1 scene and it just has tacky Windows Movie Maker graphics over it.
So man artist seem to make those lately.

How so?

I thought it didn't have a video...