Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jacqueline Schneider is a reporter who covers music and technology. Videos have created deeper connections to music and the ...

The 1980s didn’t just change music — they changed how we experienced it. Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were afterthoughts, low-budget promotional clips that occasionally appeared on ...

Music videos and movies have been intertwined ever since MTV made the former ubiquitous in the 1980s. For songs that were part of a movie’s soundtrack, music videos frequently had tie-ins to the films ...