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Subject: Re: Re: VIDEOS - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 05:57:12 EST
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inmet!andrew    Mar  6 11:53:00 1984

Videos are a new form of promotion more than a breakthrough in music.  They
have already become as formulaic as the FM radio they were supposed to have
supplanted.  Five years ago, a new band would release a record that sounded
like everybody else in order to get FM airplay; now they release a video
that looks like everybody else in order to get MTV exposure.  Meet the new 
boss, same as the old boss!
 
Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics    ...harpo!inmet!andrew
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