Oh Life....

More often than I'd like to admit, when I sit myself down to try to write a few posts, my brain starts with "oh life" because I mean Oh.... life... phew.  Which then causes my brain to sing "OOOOOOH Life... it's Bigger!  It's bigger than YOU and YOU are not me" (From R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion")

Which means that just a few minutes ago I indulged this ear worm and flipped over to YouTube to watch the video.  (It's a great video.)

Which made me think about how many of us grew up with these magic, truly amazing mini video movies that came along with our songs and our music and how those videos, like WATCHING the performance of it was part of how the song ingrained itself into our minds and memories.

I'm sure music videos are still a big thing and yes I've seen some of them of course but to me at least it feels like music videos used to be such a big thing.  And maybe it's that there wasn't a YouTube to go to.  You'd watch a show, a program and they'd show you this video and that one and debut a new one from whoever and it was a whole thing.  And yes, I know that MTV recently shut down their whatever channel or something but I was a Much Music girl anyway and whatever other stations I had access too although when I was young enough I wasn't actually allowed to watch those shows as my folks seemed to think they were trash (maybe they were) but man oh man there is some excellent art out there and honestly some songs for me were *made* by their video.  As in the video did an exceptional job of selling the song and became part of it.  

This still goes on, absolutely.  Like I've never listened to "This is America" by Childish Gambino *without* watching the work of arr that is the video.  I don't' know that I would listen to the song without the visual accompaniment.   It is a part of the story.  It IS the story.  

I believe the oldest movies were silent (no sound/talking) but accompanied by music.   This combo has been around a long while.  

I guess this is just me wanting to say I'm so grateful I had such great music growing up and into my early adulthood and that a good chunk of that had some amazing music videos to go along with it.