Musical Stars, the big names in the industry, are relied upon to make almost all the main money in the music industry.
Only ONE in TEN
singers or bands succeed in earning decent money for the industry.
The 'meta-narrative star image' of a musician or group of musicians is very often heavily represented through music video. The star image is sold to viewers, who watch the stars performing or larking around in videos. The stars can choose what sort of image they wish to sell through the narrative of a music video.
A specific example of this would be Muse's recent Maddness music video.
The song features images of Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme, the three members of muse. However the main focus of the music video is a woman who wanders around an underground train station as riots and protests begin to arise both under and above ground. Eventually she finds her partner, who have a touching reunion in the midst of the fighting. Muse's messages here are clear; they are a mildly controversial band who's main aims are to highlight the importance of love and peace - in Madness, represented through both the lyrics and (ironically) the riots.
The aim of a music video is to promote an album; for this reason, almost all music videos contain the image of the star(s), the singer or band, to help promote the album.
Because of this music videos often feature a wide variety of shots (especially close ups) on their singers, and give them a large percentage of the screen time within a music video.
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