This has been talked about by many people before me, but music videos caused the sully of the music industry. Sure the idea is fresh enough, using another medium such as video to enhance and drive home the point of a song. But since most people aren't artists, most people don't think of music as art. They see music as a consumable item that fulfils a need, and as such are not bothered and even drawn toward what's become the typical music video. Tits, ass, drugs, jewellery, cars, big houses, private jets are all consumable items as well and so suits decided that that's what should be in music videos, and that's what their contracted(grossly untalented) talent should be singing/rapping about. Your typical music videos, the ones that flood the airways and by some commercial force the ones that drive their accompanying audio diarrhoea to the top of the charts are designed to sell products, in fact the bodies that run those charts that they manage to climb are themselves managed by the same fuckers selling ad space in the songs. Lyrics to these puddles of poo are comprised of the dirtiest things they can think of, which in terms of the music industry are poorly strung together half-sentences and repeating the same misplaced vulgar words and catch phrases again and again. I'm all for talking dirty but this is a half-dressed attempt at best. Most of it anyway lends to a 7th grade outlook on dirty which makes it all to clear it was placed for the cheap thrill that resonates the mainstream when hearing such words through a set of speakers to a shitty beat.

Art is when something tangible, like a paint brush or a guitar string, can be used to portray something abstract, like an emotion or a cultural folly. When people are poisoned by infomercials injected into what should be an aggregate of art, and to the point where they are convinced what they are watching is in fact art, it's sad. It's sad to think that not only do these people live on the verge of a human experience–in a significant way, but also that they remain chained in the dark because someone else wants to make a buck. Manipulating someone else's reality and truth  for your own gain is a dirty trick to play.

I leave you with some art.

Support these artists and others like them or soon there won't be any left.

Metallica - Turn the Page Directed by: Jonas Akerlund

Killer Mike featureing Ice Cube - Pressure Directed by: Giovanni Hidalgo

Radiohead - Just Directed by: Jamie Thravest

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