The Primary functions of all music videos are to showcase and promote the artist and to advance the sales of the music. As part if this, the industry of creating music videos often rely on a good song in the background so that people will watch the video regardless. Despite this, the following two examples are both songs that weren't particularly well received by the public on their release, yet the music video given to the song has helped to increase their popularity inexplicably, even to the point of the songs and videos still being popular today.
A-HA- Take on me
The music video of A-HA's "Take on Me", directed by Steve Barron, cast the original idea of having most parts of the video inside of a comic book, making the majority of the frame in the video with hand drawn characters and backgrounds of the characters. The smooth transitions between reality and comic book style blew this song into popularity, considering that a year before the video was released the song was released on its own and didn't gain much of a following. Part of the beauty of this video was down to the stop motion animation that took place in it, as nowadays the amount of time and money that would be spent attempting to recreate such a video would be too great to be reasonable to produce.
Sinead O'Connor- Nothing Compares 2U
Sinead O'Connor's music video "Nothing Compares 2U", a cover of Prince's song, instantly became her most famous music video, as well as one of the greatest music videos of all time. This is due to the real emotion portrayed by her during her close up. before the music video was shot, Sinead's mother passed away, and combined with the emotional lyrics of the song, caused for her to actually cry over the song. This created a problem for the director, as prior to filming her close up he had spent £40,000 shooting in France. The tears added incredible amounts of emotion to the video, so most shots of France were scrapped and the majority of the video is Sinead's head, forcing you to stare into her eyes as she cries.
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