You watch a 14-minute music video and suddenly the way music appears on television feels different forever. The debut of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on MTV in 1983 fused cinematic storytelling, ...
If you didn’t live through the 80s but have read about MTV’s dominance in that era, you might not realize that the network wasn’t the be-all, end-all for music videos. The clips were such a phenomenon ...
MTV came to be in the year 1981. Many a Gen Xer remembers August 1 of that year, when the broadcasting network first aired its plentiful music videos to the world. It’s no surprise that MTV became an ...