When it comes to music videos, there is a before and after. There was a time when music videos weren’t prized like they were in the 1980s and 1990s. Prior, they were rarely seen promo materials. But ...

When looking back on the most “absurd” decades of music, I think all music lovers would unanimously agree that the 80s take the cake as the most “absurd”. Big hair, electronic sounds, flashy brands, ...

Since MTV launched in the early 1980s, music videos have served as both artistic expression and cultural lightning rod. What started as a new medium for marketing songs quickly became a battleground ...

More 1980s hair rock, the title cut from Dokken's 1981 studio debut. The budget on this video must have been pretty slim. The band plays while walking down a hallway, and we wonder how injury was ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

When MTV first started in 1981, the network broadcast wall-to-wall music videos. The network's Movie Awards show, airing tonight, is an indication of how far from those beginnings the channel has come ...