I know many will jump on to discredit Miley, nevertheless, I shall continue with this discussion. Has Miley done what Beyonce wanted to achieve with "Beyonce: The Visual Album"? Bey talked about how the music industry right now is so dull and uneventful. But, If you look back at the Wrecking Ball fiasco and all around it, its have been closest thing we have to a musical event in recent history (concerning music videos), dare I say compared to Thriller (not quality-wise, ofcourse). The way Beyonce described how she grew up looking forward to music videos, sitting around with her family and friends watching it on TV and discussing it, that's exactly what happened with Wrecking Ball. EVERYONE talked (and laughed) about it.
Beyonce, in her part, with her groundbreaking album release did something no one ever dared to do before: release a visual album without any notice. Shortly after the release BEYONCE became one of the biggest musical events of the year.
Beyonce:
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“I feel like right now, people experience music differently. I remember seeing Thriller on TV with my family – it was an event. We all sat around the TV…I’m now looking back and I’m so lucky that I was born around that time.
Miley: (about her VMA performance)
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“This is a time in the year where it really brings it back, focused on music and that’s what it was supposed to be,” Miley said. “It was supposed to be celebrating music videos and that was basically my music video.”
So, are Beyonce and Miley Cyrus reviving music videos and their importance?
every once in a while we get classic music videos, I don't think music videos fading is something to worry about right now tbh
they have been around since 80's(or 70's idk) and hopefully will survive some more decades
I get your point, but I dunno.
Did people really anticipate Miley's Wrecking Ball in the first place? Yes it was discussed and scrutinized a lot, maybe the biggest MV of the year, but even though this she didn't manage to create the same hype for Adore You. The music videos had some kind of revival in 2009-2011 I would say with GaGa making her videos events (she lost it with The Edge of Glory though) and several other artists followed suit with creating stylized and/or story-driven music videos.
The MV's influence this decade can be seen paralleled with GaGa's decline in 2011 and Adele's rise. People got less interested in the "visuals".
Yes, but I think some credit needs to go to Billboard, as well. By changing the formula for the Hot 100, they've made the music video much more important to a single's success, thus pushing artists to create more eye-catching, attention-getting videos.
No...we really haven't had any revolutionary music videos since Bad Romance and Single Ladies. I mean Wrecking Ball got close but the controversy will probably be remembered more than the actual video itself, i.e. people will recall "oh, Miley was naked on a wrecking ball" as opposed to the whole piece as a coherent work of art.
To an extent this is certainly true. I feel like in recent times music videos have become less of events than before, but recent stuff like Gangnam Style/Wrecking Ball (even for the novelty reasons) have increased their popularity. BEYONCÉ's visual approach I think will also cause a lot more videos to be made, which isn't a bad thing at all.
Lol I'm sorry but any video where someone is literally only touching themselves, simulating masturbation, and doing nothing else basically does not get to count towards a 'music video revival'. The Wrecking Ball video may be something that will be remembered in the grand scheme of things, although not for it's quality, but for it's shock factor and how ridiculous it was and the We Can't Stop video is just trash. But yeah Beyoncé did a good job to make music videos worth watching for people again.