I have recently researched the functions required to make a good music video. This assisted me to find the best example of the 'music video form'. I have chosen Lil Wayne - How To Love.
Below is the official music video:
I have chosen this music video because I feel it carries a very strong message behind it and it reflected the lyrics of the song well. The video first started off with a woman on the hospital bed ready to get an abortion. She realizes it could potentially be a mistake in the near future and runs out. She then raises her daughter in an abusive, unstable home. Her daughter witnesses all this and the different men that is associated with her mother. She is shown everything but love and grows up to work in all the wrong places, befriend all the wrong people and diagnosed with a distressing disease that gives her an unappealing image. However, the video gets rewinded back to when she was a child and she sees her mother falling in love and getting married and she eventually is graduated, has a legitimate job. The video ends with her ecstatic due to finding out she is pregnant with her boyfriend.
All in all, the video not only promotes Lil Wayne as a legitimate artist but almost makes the audience like him more because of its excellent storyline and their ability to relate to it.
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