"Gimme All Your Lovin'" is a song by ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. The song was released as the album's first single in 1983. I chose this video as it was very unique at its time, as many videos were all focused on stage performance where as this video is different which does focus on the singers but the red car plays a big part in the video. Also, the girls which now in the 21st century in 'Rap' videos are represented as 'slags' and the camera focus on their body features i.e. the three B's Boobs, Butts and Bellies! The beards on all the three singers represents the fashion back in the early 1980's also. Finally I mainly chose this video as it is very different from videos from the same era such as Meatloaf- Bat Out Of Hell which mainly focuses just on stage performance.
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Saturday, 18 June 2011
HomeWork!!! :D :D
I feel that this music video was iconic and groundbreaking as during MTV's first few years on the air, there was very few black artists included in the rotation on the channel. The very first non-white act played on MTV in the US was this uk band 'the specials' who had a line up of white and black musicians and vocalists. The specials video Rat race was played as the 58th video on the stations first day of broadcasting. MTV rejected some other black artists viseos, such as Rick James ''Super Freak'' because they didnt fir the channels rock dominated format at the time. i think this makes this video ground breaking and helped start equality within the music channel.
i like the simplicity of this video, its not trying to be too flashy but instead concentrates on the music itself. There is good use of close ups throughout the video whether its on the instruments, the singers or an object related to the song. I also like that there is a distinct relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, an example of this if to the line 'working for the rat race' where there is a visual aid of a rat 'racing' and someone working.
Monday, 13 June 2011
Homework! 80's video :)
This video is by Queen - Radio Ga Ga. (1984)
I thought it was iconic because I believe it is on about music videos 'killing' the radio, just like 'Video killed the radio star'. It suggests that television and the music videos are taking over the radio and making the radio less popular.
Roger Taylor (who wrote the song) claimed he was inspired to write this after watching MTV. He noticed that lots of kids were watching the channel instead of listening to the radio. This shows that maybe it is not music videos that have entirely taken over the radio, but the amount of publicity MTV is given, and how much is has been advertised, has boosted the ratings of music videos and MTV.
There is a part of the music video that shows Queen performing infront of a group of people. Nowadays, music videos normally consist of the artist dancing throughout the song or trying to make a narrative throughout the music video, whereas, in this particular music video, it focuses on the artist's talent and their music instead of their appearence to show to an audience. I think this links in with the meaning of this song that 'radio is better than music videos' because the radio focuses on the lyrics and talent, whereas the music videos are used to portray an 'image'.
However, as this shows a difference between then and now, I still think this video is iconic because it later on was performed by Sophie Ellis Bextor and other artists. I think this shows that the thought that radio is still important, aswell as music video, still stands, which is shown through the ongoing rememberance and performance of this song. I also think this video has done well because it has given new artists inspiration, for example, Lady Gaga has said that she got her name from this song. I think this shows that this song has been iconic because it has stayed in the industry through new artists.
This music video also shows an image of the radio itself.
Although it links the picture with the lyrics, it is also contradicting itself because the image of the radio is actually in a music video.
Roger Taylor (who wrote the song) claimed he was inspired to write this after watching MTV. He noticed that lots of kids were watching the channel instead of listening to the radio. This shows that maybe it is not music videos that have entirely taken over the radio, but the amount of publicity MTV is given, and how much is has been advertised, has boosted the ratings of music videos and MTV.
There is a part of the music video that shows Queen performing infront of a group of people. Nowadays, music videos normally consist of the artist dancing throughout the song or trying to make a narrative throughout the music video, whereas, in this particular music video, it focuses on the artist's talent and their music instead of their appearence to show to an audience. I think this links in with the meaning of this song that 'radio is better than music videos' because the radio focuses on the lyrics and talent, whereas the music videos are used to portray an 'image'.
However, as this shows a difference between then and now, I still think this video is iconic because it later on was performed by Sophie Ellis Bextor and other artists. I think this shows that the thought that radio is still important, aswell as music video, still stands, which is shown through the ongoing rememberance and performance of this song. I also think this video has done well because it has given new artists inspiration, for example, Lady Gaga has said that she got her name from this song. I think this shows that this song has been iconic because it has stayed in the industry through new artists.
This music video also shows an image of the radio itself.
Although it links the picture with the lyrics, it is also contradicting itself because the image of the radio is actually in a music video.
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Friday, 6 May 2011
prelimary Task
This is our prelimary task, which I forgot to upload months ago. Anyway this was a good practice for us as a group, especially myself, Charlotte and Oliver as we had never used camera's before.
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