The 1980s didn’t just change music — they changed how we experienced it. Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were afterthoughts, low-budget promotional clips that occasionally appeared on ...

Country Music Television, better known as CMT, began in 1983. The first video ever was a performance of Faron Young singing “It’s Four In The Morning”. In the decades since then, artists have used ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

There have been a surprising number of one-hit wonders from non-American countries that love to put on impressions of Americans. “Cotton Eye Joe” by Swedish outfit Rednex is one example. Likewise, ...

Here are 10 hair metal music videos that defined 1980s (and very, very early 1990s) pop culture. Big hair. Bigger hooks. Even bigger budgets for fog machines and neon lighting. If there’s one thing ...

While radio waves were still dominating as the prime source for new music in the eighties, single songs in particular, one thing appeared that propelled new songs to either sink or swim - MTV and ...