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Violent music videos have always existed, yet before the internet they weren’t quite as problematic. The point of a music video, of course, is to promote a song or album…yet there was little tolerance for showing any depiction of violence on television stations, meaning it was tough to get the money and approval to make them.
Yet the advent of the internet and the popularity of streaming services like YouTube has breathed new life (and many more gruesome possibilities) into the violent video. Bands and artists no longer have to worry about a lack of promotion… gory videos still make it onto YouTube, and are written about, shared and discussed much more than your standard fare.
For this reason music videos are able to get more unsettling than ever… but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some insanely brutal videos made back in the day,...
Violent music videos have always existed, yet before the internet they weren’t quite as problematic. The point of a music video, of course, is to promote a song or album…yet there was little tolerance for showing any depiction of violence on television stations, meaning it was tough to get the money and approval to make them.
Yet the advent of the internet and the popularity of streaming services like YouTube has breathed new life (and many more gruesome possibilities) into the violent video. Bands and artists no longer have to worry about a lack of promotion… gory videos still make it onto YouTube, and are written about, shared and discussed much more than your standard fare.
For this reason music videos are able to get more unsettling than ever… but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some insanely brutal videos made back in the day,...
- 3/10/2016
- by Brian Wilson
- Obsessed with Film
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