In today's lesson, we continued the countdown of the 100 greatest music videos.
10- Nirvana - smells like team spirit 1991
Reminds the viewers of fire as video reflects the same colour
Difficult to control crowd at the time of filming as the kids were drunk on set for about 11-12 hours.
9- Madonna - Vogue 1990
Madonna understands what makes a good music video which is why she has 2 video's in the top 10.
8- The Verve - Bittersweet sympathy 1997
7- Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 1983
America has come so fart, playing black people on MTV, now have a black president.
6- Robbie Williams - Rock DJ 2000, No real message, tries to get DJ's attention.
5- Madonna - Like a prayer. 1989
Most contraversal video becayse Jesus is black and comes back to life to sleep with Madonna. Pepsi/coke cancelled her sponsership deal.
She is brilliant at manipulating the media
Video is about religios and sexual exticy.
4- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1975
Where the music video starts because queen cannot be on top of the pops, spent 9 weeks at number 1but were unable to get on top of the pops as they were touring.
3- A- ha - take on me 1985
Was a flop when was released, then when the video was released, it was so good that it attracted more people and became a success due to the success of the video.
2- Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 1986
So many things happen in 3 minutes, the artist wanted something that could repeat several times but that could still keep the viewers interested.
1- Michael Jackson Thriller 1983
John Landis directed American Wearwolf in London and Michael Jackson saw this film and wanted to use the idea for this music video Thriller. The video is 15 minutes long and the very first viewing of it was at 1am because it was too scary to show during the day. Programmes were cancelled to have the premiere.
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