Question: Videos vs. Songs
Why is there a great music video resource like antville for music videos, but not for standard songs?
Conversely, why are there 5 billion mp3 blogs, but only 2 real music video blogs (Cliptip and SoHotRightNow)
The obvious answer is that music videos are somehow more "legal" to post than songs, but I don't think that's completely true. Also, there are necessarily way more songs than videos, but there are still a damn lot of videos out there. It's an odd assymetry.
And just to follow the rules of posting a video: you can find lots of videos at the sites listed above.
It's a good point.
I think one reason is there's more to talk about with a video - song plus vision + narrative, etc.
Also, there are only so many videos (opposed to ten songs an album) which nicely controls the flow here. Postings linger long enough to foster dialogue, whereas if there were to be something like this for songs, I'm pretty sure there'd be a hundred postings a day.
There are interesting combinations, like em411.com - where you post your own songs and they gets commented on.
um, the hype machine?
Cool links. :)
other differences:
- antville's a collective thang, while all mp3 blogs are singly edited, at most by a crew. (interestingly, mefi, a site that antville resembles, has just recently launched a music site.)
- antville's only republishing extant links (mainly), whereas mp3 blogs actually (illegally) post songs (hype machine and elbo.ws then aggregate those).
- other music video resources via videoville.
signs off for a bit<
music is the product, videos are just the ads.
Well, I agree with all of that, except on thing,
you 've forgotten an other music video blog (which is in the video.antville link section):
yes I know it's french but anyway you can watch lot of videos too.
What is a real music video blog?
Good points, all.
-You're totally right that the Hype Machine is a very similar thing, but I personally don't find it to be quite as "personal" as videos.antville as it lacks the commentary (which is probably due to there being less volume in video land - good point). It just feels different to me.
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The songs can defintitely be considered the "product" and the videos the "ad". But is this as true now as it once was? iTunes sells music videos, for example.
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A "real" music video blog is a blog (i.e. provides some form of commentary) that focuses on providing viewable (Cliptip) or better yet downloadable (SHRN and the late Videoteque) music videos and that's it. Compare to stereogum, for example, which may or may not post a video in their general music reporting. No disrespect intended to blogs I didn't mention or that are in languages I can't read: Cliptip and SHRN are just the most prototypical, "pure" music video blogs I know of (and the oldest, I believe).
Ok, I got it. Well. MP3 blogs are about music, done by people who like music. So they... uhm, just post music... Music videos are a form of film making. So I'd feel like a limit to post only music videos. Probably other video bloggers feel like this.
and another indie rock/electronica music video blog that is not in the antville link section: collectivision.blogspot.com...but what you find there you will find here first or eventually.
ontoyourego.blogspot.com offers music videos, they've been around for some time now.
For the blog in other languages just use googles language tool www.google.com will translate entire page.
i think antville works because music videos are created for promotion of the artist. this page basically becomes a free promo for any artist with a video posted. all we do here is gather the promotions and talk about them. if you rip tracks off a cd and post them, you are giving consumers something they aren't supposed to get until after they've spent cash. i think the only downbeat would be if advertisers realized that people were watching more videos online then on mtv, vh1, they would move to pushing banners on sites like this rather then commercials on tv.
