How the ’80s Turned Music into a Visual Medium, and We’ll Never Have Another MTV Moment

In 1981, asking someone if they wanted to watch a music video would likely get a confused reaction. The concept hadn’t ...
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5 rock videos from the '80s every late boomer will immediately recognize

The '80s saw the rise of truly creative and expertly directed rock videos, and late boomers were treated to some of the most ...
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3 MTV Music Videos That Made You Rush Home After School in the 1980s

We can’t talk about ’80s MTV without mentioning Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller.” It’s perhaps an obvious choice, but it wouldn’t feel right to leave it out. “Thriller” epitomized the music video ...
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3 Surprising Country Songs That Made It to MTV in the 1980s and 1990s

MTV is known for debuting quite a few stellar music videos for high-charting songs in pop, rock, and hip-hop. Country songs didn’t make it to MTV often in the early days of music-videos-only ...

10 Music Trends That Defined Early MTV

When MTV launched in 1981, it did not just play music videos, it rewired pop culture. Image was inseparable from sound, and ...
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30 defining songs of the 1980s that shaped a musical decade

Few decades transformed popular music as dramatically as the 1980s. New recording technology, the rise of MTV and the commercial breakthrough of hip-hop reshaped how artists reached audiences around ...