MTV RESPONSE

i think that MTV was a success for the simple fact that they were among the first to bring a "visual" aid to accompany music. which has, sense then, changed the way we listen to and percieve music as a whole. most people, before getting the chance to see a video for a song, would hear the lyrics and paint their own picture for the words, of what they might have thought the artist was trying to say, but now with videos there are images and concepts to help show what they mean with their words and theres a better idea of how the artist was trying to convey their emotions through that song. its kinda like talking to someone on the phone that youve never seen before and bc of their voice you start to make a visual of what their face looks like to you, only to see that when you meet in person, their nothing like you thought they would be!...for example. if there were a song you heard by eminem and he was talking about people being killed and on drugs and other sorts of crazy things then you would assume it was HIM on the drugs or doing the killings, (which most of us seem to think, that he indeed is talking about himself) but when you see the video for that song you start to think that hes speking on things that he has seen happen to other people, not directly himself. so on those terms i think the video aspect can be a positive reinforcement of a song, although sometimes i feel like the vidoes sometimes take away from the song. the videos dont have anything to do with the song,i feel so when i see the video i dont like the song that much. its kinda like having an original song, and then having the same song with another artist for a 'remix' it sorda takes away from the song, at least i feel that way. i think the video launching was also a success because then came other stations that did the same such as CMT, and BET. although i like to watch BET over the other two, i feel MTV has a more diverse selection on music, where as BET mostly plays music for 'black entertainment' and CMT mostly plays country music.