26 Thriller-ing Facts About Music Videos

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26 Thriller-ing Facts About Music Videos

Can any of you Boomers and elder Gen Xers tell us what it was like when bands first started making music videos? We only know a post-music video world, so that really must’ve been an awesome experience. Like space travel in a world of airplanes. Hmm, maybe that’s why the MTV Music Video Award has a little spaceman on it! 

We’ll go ask the fine folks at MTV while you check out these random music video tidbits. And appreciate them, would ya? The music video is still a pretty new-ish phenomenon.

MTV

MTV'S TOTAL REQUEST LIVE WAS A DAILY MUSIC VIDEO COUNTDOWN SHOW PULL SN Before YouTube, we had to patiently wait for Carson Daly to introduce one minute clips of our favorite music videos. CRACKED.COM

Total Request Live

AS THE NAME IMPLIES, TRL WAS A LIVE SHOW OF THE MOST REQUESTED MUSIC VIDEOS... beautiful DE H2O J - ...BUT THAT WAS ALL LIES. CRACKED.COM

Tom Green

Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song) was aired on The Tom Green Show, during which the comedian asked fans to request it on TRL. They did, and it became a number one hit on TRL. AND IT WOULD HAVE STAYED THERE, IF THE NEXT WEEK'S SHOW HADN'T ALREADY BEEN RECORDED. CRACKED.COM

Queen

Rolling Stone said that Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY invented the music video. It only took four hours and £3,500 to make, but its success in 1975 had every record company thinking about video! Director Bruce Gowers became a star, and went on to make videos for the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, and Prince. CRACKED

Thriller

Michael Jackson's THRILLER is so much more than a music video. In December 1983, the 13-minute short film was solely responsible for increasing MTV's ratings tenfold. It is the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. CRACKED

Madonna

The world first saw an empowered female artist through Madonna's videos She is cited by Encyclopedia Britannica as the first female artist to fully exploit the potential of the music video. Her '80s videos for Like a Virgin and Material Girl paved the way for every female artist to follow. CRACKED

Miley Cyrus

Beloved celebrities who used to be hated MILEY CYRUS got a lot of flak fo her twerking routine. During her performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, people were wondering if she was on MDMA (or molly). CRACKED

Columbia Records

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WAP

13 Little Things You Didn’t Know About Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects - The WAP music video spent $100,000 just on Covid testing.
Source: VICE

Shake It Off

During the shooting of the music video of Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, heavy-metal music was played around the perimeter of the studio SO no-one cou

Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender was in a bizarre music video. This 2003 music video for The Cooper Temple Clause song Blind Pilots sees Fassbender transform into

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