'Old-school' music videos - a culture shock?!
Question: When I watch my favourite vintage music vids - I am reminded how drastically different things were (music, image, mentality etc.)...
So, I'm very curious...
*Does the newer generation get a culture shock if they (happen to) see those old vids?
*Like, wouldn't they wonder about things like:
Why are there only guys in this vid; why is that girl band playing music and not dancing; why did female hip-hoppers wear track suits; why was there much less physical interaction, etc, etc?
I'm not here to preach, but to know. Peace to the 'new-school' music video makers too.
Answers: When I watch my favourite vintage music vids - I am reminded how drastically different things were (music, image, mentality etc.)...
So, I'm very curious...
*Does the newer generation get a culture shock if they (happen to) see those old vids?
*Like, wouldn't they wonder about things like:
Why are there only guys in this vid; why is that girl band playing music and not dancing; why did female hip-hoppers wear track suits; why was there much less physical interaction, etc, etc?
I'm not here to preach, but to know. Peace to the 'new-school' music video makers too.
I look at some of the later 80s ones that I watched when I was younger......and I have to laugh and be amazed.....I can't believe how different things looked, how bad the fashion was (I think pink spandex should NEVER make a come back).
There was a lot more suggestion/implied meaning in those videos. Now, pretty much anything goes. I definitely notice the absence of the normal overabundence of video girls. Back then, there were usally dancers in a group who did not grind up on the artist. The censorship present in the past, has definitely relaxed or has been thrown out the door.
what generation are you from ? the lost generation ?
growin on the 80's im at a loss as to what you are referring to ... would be good to know what videos you are waffling about
When i first discovered older rock in general it was a "culture shock".. but a positive one.
I look at it with admiration more than anything.
Although, I'm stuck in the past when it comes to most things...a 30 year old stuck in a 16 year olds body, it seems.
It makes me laugh. Not so much a culture shock.
people are always going to look back at stuff and get a shock.things move on :)
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