I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.
Yeah, I’ve been in booty magazines and did music videos but guess what? I can be on Nickelodeon too if I want to!
I searched YouTube for ‘deaf music videos’ and watched them with the sound muted. I noticed that though you could understand the words being signed, the sense of rhythm was lost. That’s when I had the idea to create a video where you could see the sounds you couldn’t hear.
I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.
One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.
People love me when I do selfie videos, so I know they like me in music videos as well. Otherwise, I would have just been a playback singer.
We didn’t have music videos. You weren’t an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.
I was on Tumblr when I was 12 or 13. I was on YouTube, too. I had a channel and made music videos. It had 50,000 subscribers.
I think before, in the ’80s, it was more about fashion and music videos and a lot of radio: getting out there and the fans learning who you were and your music.
Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever invented. And the people who were in the videos… coolest people ever. No question.
We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they’re different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they’re all the same, really.
At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing.
The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so many different ideas, but they need to understand what the musician wants.
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they’re like this short little stab.
I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.
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