This video is a compilation of my entire "Hit Record" series released over the last three months. I thought I'd put them all together in one place in case anybody wanted to watch the full thing. Thank you all so much for your support of this series, it's been a really fun undertaking and the response has been incredible.
I think it's the smarter choice with the algorithm and hopefully you get more views with this one. High quality and people just aren't watching you as much as they use to. It really sucks to see someone continue to do their best but the views just aren't coming.
you ain't lying. I do think his videos will do well as a slow burn though. Historically I feel they are important videos. I just don't want for him to have to wait so long to prosper from them. @@Awesomebaconman123
Didn’t realize it was a three hour video so I kept watching it, I was like “Is it a new video or did I click a playlist of the video” and I looked at the time stamp when I was around 2 hours in and I was like “oh. Too far to quit watching now”
It's a shame The Residents don't garner a mention in this series. Their early music videos for 1980's Commercial Album were very influential for taking the focus off of the performers and onto more conceptual ideas and story telling through imagery. They were also in rotation in the early days of MTV, showing that there was a place for avant garde in pop culture.
MTV introduced me to New Romantic music. I still listen to it (Roxy Music, ABC, Thomas Dolby etc) when I want to go down memory lane. Proud Gen Xer here👍
Ehhh, Funk sometimes has overlap with Rock, but it just as often pulls from R&B, Jazz, and Disco. (Of course the common denominator in all of these is Blues.) MTV was still racist for refusing to play black artists in every genre, but it's certainly true that something like Let's Groove by Earth Wind & Fire has a totally different vibe from Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
You rock for posting the whole series. Ive seen a few episodes and they are really amazing work. Ken Burns quality but far more accurate while keeping the romanticism. ❤💪
What a great and amazingly comprehensive look at the history of music video. This was super interesting. Check out the Video work of Ren. Start with ‘Hi Ren’ and then ‘Violet’s Tale’ which are pretty interesting and fresh. Thanks for this fun tour.
2:49:49 why the heck did the voice suddenly jump all the way to the left channel? It's very difficult to listen to, and I hate having to go through all my settings to find the option to switch to mono, because I always forget to turn it off and for the next week I wonder why music seems so flat...
You should analyse some of Stromae's video's. They are still very watchable in this day and age. "Carmen", "Quand C'est", "Ave cesaria" and "Formidable" are stand outs for me, very creative. Thanks for the great video, greetings from Belgium.
Love the series. I am interested on your take with music videos being synchronized with other music depending on the creators perspective. As a new type of art.
15 minutes in and I'm already enraged by the amount of censorship imposed on the creator. The best way not to repeat bad history is to talk about it and let the air in on what's wrong. Fuck I hate censorship
Some gap filler... When Jackson bought the Beatles catalogue McCartney was more than annoyed. Michael had asked McCartney for some advice. McCartney suggested creating and investing in brilliant music videos and buying into music publishing rights. When Michael told Paul on the phone 'I'm going to buy your songs Paul...' McCartney thought he was joking but Jackson bought most of The Beatles Catalogue (Yoko did not want to go half with McCartney which later became another McCartney- Ono area of huge animosity. This real should have been included in this documentary. Huey Lewis and the News were one of the most enthusiastic groups for MTV and went to huge efforts to promote their songs through innovative, even cheesy videos and it worked for them - the videos becoming just as important as the music in selling products. Sports the massive success of 1984 spent most of the entire year on the charts and this peaked in 1985 with The Power of Love from the Movie The classic ‘Back to the Future’. They were just as video orientated and successful as Madonna and Prince and should have been mentioned. They may be considered cheesy - but in fact some of their material was great pieces. Music videos and film ties in became the norm very much and often the song was a bigger success than the movie it featured in. Billy Ocean's 'When the Going Gets Tough...' being commercially much more successful than 'Jewel of the Nile' the movie it was associated with. 'Footloose' and mush like 'The Glory of Love' are example of this tie in approach that dominated the mid-eighties. For many there began a steady decline in the quality and effort going into music videos, even prior to TH-cam. Almost as if the artist was saying cheap and easy equates to credibility and all artists sought street cred. Along comes TH-cam and everything becomes a mashup of everything. Then streaming platforms and the horrid TikTok - imo a horrible creation which has dumbed down both music and videos for a generation that we know for fact has an attention span vastly lacking to previous generations. In this modern age of instant everything on a plate it seems no-one can be certain of anything. There are more opportunities to find an audience, but every artist is now up against thousands of competitors not just the big corps of the past. Excess and at your fingertips is the new age. There has been an upside in broadening the viewers/listeners experiences as they search out new and different music genre and forms, but it also has come at the cost of the musical artist finding it difficult to earn a living even more than before when the big corps like Festival tried to give as little to the artist even as they raked the big bucks. These days most of which is produced goes to a single person - Elon Musk! Surely that is a situation worth taking a stand against. This documentary nevertheless is highly enjoyable and well-constructed. It would be difficult to include everything, and this is an excellent overview.
Another great video by this channel. How many rock videos by white artists was BET playing ? MTV wasnt playing Rick James and other black artists cuz their target audience in those early days was basically middle America cuz that's who had cable.Like BET it was a business trying to make money.Soon as they got videos by black artists that could make them money they played them.
I don’t think “The little lost girl” was a music video. I believe that we should only count the videos that were made intentionally for M (Music), TV 📺 (Television).
Don't you DARE say Green day are pop punk!!! Listen to their discography! They grew up playing stitty bars and having no equipment. Only reason you say they are pop punk is because they accepted MTV with the Dookie album. That band is WAY more political than any good charlotte or your stupid, ill educated words.
😂😂😂 Nice save there at the end after stating, falsely, that Taylor Swift has the highest number of views in 24 hours for a music video at 65M and has held that record for the last 5 years, by throwing out an aside of, you know "I've mostly focused on videos coming out of the English speaking world". 🙄🙄🙄 Lame. So, not to be one of "those" fans... but for the sake of accuracy, the most views for a music video in 24 hours is Butter by BTS at 108M views... the first 30M of which was racked up in just 2.5 hrs. Butter... a song entirely in English... and that was nominated for a Grammy. 🤷♀️✌️
I don’t remember the Black Lives Matter movement happening in the 2010s I only remember it during the pandemic. Where was I? I don’t remember any of the conversations either. I guess it didn’t affect me until we were all at home.
Ahhhh, with that clip of D'Angelo's Untitled (How Does It Feel) at the end under the videos that you didn't have time to cover - I just know there was a section about how D'Angelo took the common music video trope of using mostly-undressed women's bodies to sell records and flipped it with a music video that was entirely about presenting his own male body for a sexual gaze. But it worked too well and led D'Angelo to feel awkward & self-conscious about how much his fans wanted his body, and became one of the contributing factors to his decade-plus hiatus between the Voodoo album and the Black Messiah album.
This video is a compilation of my entire "Hit Record" series released over the last three months. I thought I'd put them all together in one place in case anybody wanted to watch the full thing. Thank you all so much for your support of this series, it's been a really fun undertaking and the response has been incredible.
I think it's the smarter choice with the algorithm and hopefully you get more views with this one. High quality and people just aren't watching you as much as they use to. It really sucks to see someone continue to do their best but the views just aren't coming.
you ain't lying. I do think his videos will do well as a slow burn though. Historically I feel they are important videos. I just don't want for him to have to wait so long to prosper from them.
@@Awesomebaconman123
incredible content, thank you
Excellent work man, super thorough and well-researched project
Merry Christmas Polyphonic and a Happy New Year 🎉❤ and to everyone
Didn’t realize it was a three hour video so I kept watching it, I was like “Is it a new video or did I click a playlist of the video” and I looked at the time stamp when I was around 2 hours in and I was like “oh. Too far to quit watching now”
These videos are DOPE! Nice work man!
This is incredible Polyphonic. You are amazing
It's a shame The Residents don't garner a mention in this series. Their early music videos for 1980's Commercial Album were very influential for taking the focus off of the performers and onto more conceptual ideas and story telling through imagery. They were also in rotation in the early days of MTV, showing that there was a place for avant garde in pop culture.
Wish he would cover The Residents they are a freaky yet cool unknown artists.
this gives off crazy pick me energy
I LOVE THE RESIDENTS ANNFJESJIXDI
music is love
TICKETS TO THE POLYPHONIC MOVIE 🗣️🔥‼️🍷🗿
Told myself I was gonna use this to fall asleep… BIG mistake now I’m hooked on watching 😂
What a phenomenal series ! Spectacular work.
This is fantastic, awesome production here 👍
Polyphonic compilation movie of Hit Record is a Christmas miracle. Happy Holidays, Polyphonic. ❤ 🎄
Your probably my favorite youtuber. Your such a great editor and speacher.
MTV introduced me to New Romantic music. I still listen to it (Roxy Music, ABC, Thomas Dolby etc) when I want to go down memory lane. Proud Gen Xer here👍
Amazing, immediate follow and I cannot wait to get into this deep dive compilation.
Thank YOU! Happy holidays.
Thank you, this was entertaining, interesting and a bit of nostalgia all into one.
2:31:08 this might be the longest rickroll setup ever
😂😂😂
This is exceptional! This is reference, top-shelf, outstanding research. Thank you.
Awesome work. Wow, this is encyclopedic, and it's fascinating and relevant throughout. Bravo and congrats. Tour de force.
1:06:00 "their argument was that theyre a rock channel," funk is rock, MTV out here being racist as fuck.
Ehhh, Funk sometimes has overlap with Rock, but it just as often pulls from R&B, Jazz, and Disco. (Of course the common denominator in all of these is Blues.) MTV was still racist for refusing to play black artists in every genre, but it's certainly true that something like Let's Groove by Earth Wind & Fire has a totally different vibe from Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
5 seconds of Joan Jett. Well...I'll take it! 🤩
Did I just get fucking rickrolled two and a half hours into a yt video
A masterpiece! Thanks from a big music fan.
man, the Scopitone is far-out! I groove on it.
Clicked cuz i knew NIN would be mentioned heh, i was right!
a lot of gratitude, CHeer mate!thank you
Thanks for this & everything you do in general😁.
1:58:27 so happy to see Frontier Psychiatrist in here
what a Tour de Force, wonderful video, many many thnks
You rock for posting the whole series. Ive seen a few episodes and they are really amazing work. Ken Burns quality but far more accurate while keeping the romanticism. ❤💪
This is outstanding. Thank you for your hard work
I was an MTV kid for sure. My earliest memory is La Bamba on mtv
What a great and amazingly comprehensive look at the history of music video. This was super interesting. Check out the Video work of Ren. Start with ‘Hi Ren’ and then ‘Violet’s Tale’ which are pretty interesting and fresh. Thanks for this fun tour.
Just finished the entire video for the 4th time. Good stuff bubba
2:49:49 why the heck did the voice suddenly jump all the way to the left channel? It's very difficult to listen to, and I hate having to go through all my settings to find the option to switch to mono, because I always forget to turn it off and for the next week I wonder why music seems so flat...
Great work, thank you.
You should analyse some of Stromae's video's. They are still very watchable in this day and age. "Carmen", "Quand C'est", "Ave cesaria" and "Formidable" are stand outs for me, very creative. Thanks for the great video, greetings from Belgium.
Damn, I remember the Vevo backlash back then, everyone hated it
2:49:49 - NOTE AUDIO GLITCHES STARTING HERE! In my headphones your voice jumped to only left & music to only right! Corrects at 2:51:08
Love the series. I am interested on your take with music videos being synchronized with other music depending on the creators perspective. As a new type of art.
Christmas came early, huh?
15:35 you didn't show the best part of this movie.. the woman flying wing dancing on the planes. Love the video
1:20:30 I want my..... I want my MTV
Good moment to pretend I’m working in excel Huehuehue |3
Dang thanks
Q-Bert- Wave Twisters?
The first music video is clearly crank that by sir Soulja the great
Fantastic Video Compilation, the Nine Inch Nails Video has some child images that are disturbing.
15 minutes in and I'm already enraged by the amount of censorship imposed on the creator. The best way not to repeat bad history is to talk about it and let the air in on what's wrong. Fuck I hate censorship
What they did to Janet jackson after costume malfunction was criminal. There should be a backlash on that behaviour now.
Some gap filler...
When Jackson bought the Beatles catalogue McCartney was more than annoyed. Michael had asked McCartney for some advice. McCartney suggested creating and investing in brilliant music videos and buying into music publishing rights. When Michael told Paul on the phone 'I'm going to buy your songs Paul...' McCartney thought he was joking but Jackson bought most of The Beatles Catalogue (Yoko did not want to go half with McCartney which later became another McCartney- Ono area of huge animosity. This real should have been included in this documentary.
Huey Lewis and the News were one of the most enthusiastic groups for MTV and went to huge efforts to promote their songs through innovative, even cheesy videos and it worked for them - the videos becoming just as important as the music in selling products. Sports the massive success of 1984 spent most of the entire year on the charts and this peaked in 1985 with The Power of Love from the Movie The classic ‘Back to the Future’. They were just as video orientated and successful as Madonna and Prince and should have been mentioned. They may be considered cheesy - but in fact some of their material was great pieces.
Music videos and film ties in became the norm very much and often the song was a bigger success than the movie it featured in. Billy Ocean's 'When the Going Gets Tough...' being commercially much more successful than 'Jewel of the Nile' the movie it was associated with. 'Footloose' and mush like 'The Glory of Love' are example of this tie in approach that dominated the mid-eighties.
For many there began a steady decline in the quality and effort going into music videos, even prior to TH-cam. Almost as if the artist was saying cheap and easy equates to credibility and all artists sought street cred. Along comes TH-cam and everything becomes a mashup of everything. Then streaming platforms and the horrid TikTok - imo a horrible creation which has dumbed down both music and videos for a generation that we know for fact has an attention span vastly lacking to previous generations. In this modern age of instant everything on a plate it seems no-one can be certain of anything. There are more opportunities to find an audience, but every artist is now up against thousands of competitors not just the big corps of the past.
Excess and at your fingertips is the new age. There has been an upside in broadening the viewers/listeners experiences as they search out new and different music genre and forms, but it also has come at the cost of the musical artist finding it difficult to earn a living even more than before when the big corps like Festival tried to give as little to the artist even as they raked the big bucks. These days most of which is produced goes to a single person - Elon Musk! Surely that is a situation worth taking a stand against.
This documentary nevertheless is highly enjoyable and well-constructed. It would be difficult to include everything, and this is an excellent overview.
As time marched video killed instrumental music and relied upon dance, vocals. No place to go but back, and a deeper dive into the 1960s, 1970s.
Another great video by this channel.
How many rock videos by white artists was BET playing ? MTV wasnt playing Rick James and other black artists cuz their target audience in those early days was basically middle America cuz that's who had cable.Like BET it was a business trying to make money.Soon as they got videos by black artists that could make them money they played them.
Fuse exsisted
Video killed the radio star.
I don’t think “The little lost girl” was a music video. I believe that we should only count the videos that were made intentionally for M (Music), TV 📺 (Television).
❄️
Excellent work, but the sound effects are way annoying.
ads vs Bt
Call video, but why not do a story about the history of online videos?
first-ish
First
Don't you DARE say Green day are pop punk!!! Listen to their discography! They grew up playing stitty bars and having no equipment. Only reason you say they are pop punk is because they accepted MTV with the Dookie album. That band is WAY more political than any good charlotte or your stupid, ill educated words.
😂😂😂
Nice save there at the end after stating, falsely, that Taylor Swift has the highest number of views in 24 hours for a music video at 65M and has held that record for the last 5 years, by throwing out an aside of, you know "I've mostly focused on videos coming out of the English speaking world". 🙄🙄🙄 Lame.
So, not to be one of "those" fans... but for the sake of accuracy, the most views for a music video in 24 hours is Butter by BTS at 108M views... the first 30M of which was racked up in just 2.5 hrs.
Butter... a song entirely in English... and that was nominated for a Grammy.
🤷♀️✌️
I don’t remember the Black Lives Matter movement happening in the 2010s I only remember it during the pandemic. Where was I? I don’t remember any of the conversations either. I guess it didn’t affect me until we were all at home.
Ahhhh, with that clip of D'Angelo's Untitled (How Does It Feel) at the end under the videos that you didn't have time to cover - I just know there was a section about how D'Angelo took the common music video trope of using mostly-undressed women's bodies to sell records and flipped it with a music video that was entirely about presenting his own male body for a sexual gaze. But it worked too well and led D'Angelo to feel awkward & self-conscious about how much his fans wanted his body, and became one of the contributing factors to his decade-plus hiatus between the Voodoo album and the Black Messiah album.