The music video has long been a widely varied, versatile type of art form, both when it comes to the overall direction of the creation’s style and how the visual form of the medium chooses to break down the audio of the song that it’s meant to illustrate.
The music video can provide a greater explanation of what a track might be about, obscure it beneath hazy meaning, or offer some form of artistic flourish that emphasizes the overall composition. One of perhaps the most well-known ways to add some clout to a music video’s weight is through celebrity appearances.
Rock musicians have been known to utilize celebrities in music videos over the years, while the pop punk genre has also snuck in some famous faces into the visual side of their compositions. Some celebrities have even been known to do cameos in multiple music videos throughout their career (take actor/director Ben Stiller as an example of this). A decade ago, singer-songwriter Madonna took the celebrity appearance route to maximum potential for her song “B**ch I’m Madonna,” in a way that still has pop music fans talking years later.
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