This is a new level of music video: Recent trend in making music clips transforming them into a shor
- Dana Ivanova
- Aug 11, 2018
- 2 min read
Has anyone noticed how popular became trilogies? I am not talking about movies or books, obviously, this is a music blog first of all, duh.... Musicians started release more music videos that have connection, but not random video clips. It is like watching a short movie, but with great music as a bonus. This is totally not the newest thing, there were made trilogies in a past few years, but this year seems like a little boom for that.
But also there might be two different types of those stories. First one is fully one album related short movie. Like Halsey, Years & Years or One Pilot, they release(d) new music and put together music videos for that, and every next released clip is a part of one story, everything is chronological. Also there are full album films, the ones like Fall Out Boy made in 2013 with their "Save Rock and Roll" album. I find it amazing, listening to great and meaningful music and watching artist's living that imaginary story.
Also there is second type of those trilogies, I might call them "one story through albums". That one has Panic! at the Disco. They made that one story that lived through 3 albums and looks like it still not finished yet. But I must say they messed with this one, in previous episodes we kinda saw how the story ends and this year, with release of "Pray for the Wicked" we finally had an opportunity to see the beginning of that scary story. Soloist, Brendon Urie, mentioned that this was the last one, but they might do some kind of conclusion of the whole thing.
There are many more musicians that use that "technology" right now and I absolutely love it. Watching those vids make listening to music more exiting and thrilling, because you try to live in that story and feel the whole emotional spectrum. These are only some examples of artists, I am sure there are many more and will be even more.
Fall Out Boy
Album Save rock and Roll
Troye Sivan
Album Blue Neighborhood (tracks Fools, Wild, Talk Me Down)
Halsey
Album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (tracks Now or Never, Bad at Love, Alone, Sorry, Strangers)
Panic! at the Disco
Tracks This is Gospel, Emperor's New Clothes, Sat Amen(Saturday Night)
Twenty One Pilots
Album Trench (tracks Nico and the Niners, Jumpsuit, Levitate)
Years & Years
Album Palo Santo
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