Music Video Genres

Music Video Genres

As we know music videos are a major factor in modern music and have been ever since 1964, where ‘The Beatles’ released their film ‘A Hard Days Night’ this was a feature length film covering every song off the album with the same name, so this was in it’s own sense the worlds first Narrative Based music video, the first of many. In the 1980’s the music channel ‘MTV’ was born playing music videos 24 hours a day seven days a week, people would watch the channel all day and all night they would decide they wanted to buy the albums there by making more money for the artists and the channel itself. Because of this channel artists could produce a music video and play in the video for everyone to see rather than the artists touring all around the world and playing the same song over and over again and this was the birth of the music video and there by also creating the 4 main music video genres.

Performance Based Music videos:

This type of music video pretty much explains what it is, it’s an artist or a band performing their music live toward a camera, it has no narrative it’s just the band putting their music as if they were playing a live gig.

Parody Based Music Videos 

This is where an artist would parody or make fun of another song or the music video and re-make it with their own altered words or lyrics, this is a way for the parody artists to in their own unique way to pay some sort of homage to the original artist.

Story Based Music Video 

This type of music video is where through the use of the lyrics a story is being told by the artist, and the use of the music video makes it easier for the artists to show the story they are intending the people / fans to see. 

Abstract Based Music Video 

This is a rarer type of music video but it happens, it is when a music video has no correlation to the song or the lyrics but instead mean nothing really it's just meant to profound the audience as most of the time it means nothing it's just trying to be weird...