"MTV turns 30 today and we would like to thank them for 5 years of music videos."
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MTV is 42. Somehow though the 70s were only 30 years ago. These facts are simultaneously true.
It was virtual insanity.
or was is Missy Elliot? We went a little H.A.M. on the fish eye lens back then.
Busta Rhymes was the biggest offender of fisheye.
Courtesy of Hype Williams (Harold Williams) the director of all these music videos.
From wikipedia:
Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes' "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check", the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC's "No Scrubs", and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West's "Gold Digger".[4]
Well, people did get their freak on.
Listening to how that video was made was awesome. It's so simple and obvious when it's explained to you, even if it's not particularly obvious on its face.
Oh, it feels just like it should.
It was intergalactic planetary.
Planetary
Planetary
I like my sugar with coffee and cream.
Actually it was more like this -
Everyone: give us freakin cool looking videos
Video industry: *delivers*
Never forget what they took from us.
feat. Timbaland
Uhn. Yeah. Uhn.
Virtual Insanity
I really miss old school MTV though. I feel like, for a time, bands were doing some crazy music videos that were as much works of art as the music itself.
I do too. I remember for a short period, you'd go over to anyone's house and they'd just have MTV on a TV somewhere playing video after video.
It was immensely popular, and it was a fun way to passively see a bunch of artists without any effort.
Puffy
Also Missy Elliott.
I think missy actually started it first and the Puffy s videos was similar
Futuristic cheese graters will be anti-gravity, and so will toasters. You'll really have a hard time keeping your breakfast and lunch down in the world of the future.
Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today.
In the year 2525 you won't need no wife. You can pick you sons, pick your daughters to from the bottom of a long glass tube.
"Damn it, Jerry. We bought this computer and we sure as hell are going to use it!"
Missy Elliot videos were the best
Surely that's just a present-day cheerleader with a cartoon character stuck in it.