What do music videos do?
When you sit down to watch music videos, you are called upon to relate to the lyrics of the songs through fashion, facial expressions and dance movements as the music and lyrics resonate in your ears. It is therapeutic in a way not to have to look at the chalkboard or blackboard, taking notes and flipping through pages of our textbook, constantly being led on by teachers. Watching music videos was a way of rehearsing the language in our heads without need to physically be involved in the learning. We only need to sit down, watch and enjoy. What could be easier (and lazier) than that? Thankfully enough, music videos that arrived at our homes had gone through censorships first. Our parents did not understand English but they were very well prepared to teach us moral and manners. We did not have parental locks on our television then, because we had our parents. They would know, by instinct, how to protect their children if they had to. They did not have to scream or shout at us to get our
