or is it simply a song for your amusement?
2007-01-21 04:26:18 · 13 answers · asked by scape.squad.story 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
It means that the image of musicians had become more important than the music itself. We used to actually listen to music but now we care more about what the musician looks like.
2007-01-21 04:28:46 · answer #1 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a New Wave song released in 1979 by the British group The Buggles that celebrates the golden days of radio. With broadcast-quality vocals and a bouncy rhythm, the song plays like a jingle. It's a fitting sound, considering the song tells of a singer whose career is cut short by television. Group member Trevor Horn has said that his lyrics were inspired by the J.G. Ballard short story The Sound-Sweep, in which the title character, a deaf and dumb boy vacuuming up stray music in a world without it, comes upon an opera singer hiding in a sewer. He also felt "an era was about to pass."
2007-01-21 04:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
TV, before ppl had it they listened to the radio for everything, then the TV came and all those ppl were out of jobs, therefor video killed the radio star, oddly enough that was the first song video that MTV played, kinda ironic.
2007-01-21 04:30:54 · answer #3 · answered by sarah 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it started out as just a fun song for MTV to start it's station with. But it became ominously true. Bands' images were just as, if not more, important than their music when MTV came out. Gone were the days of just being a good songwriter. You had to have a look, too. Back when MTV was at its best, those videos helped sell more records.
2007-01-21 04:34:53 · answer #4 · answered by BigJake418 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's kinda like" Radio Ga Ga!" The video era killed the radio. But the only time one listens to the radio now a day's is when they drive their car.
2007-01-21 04:31:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
MTV...the song came out the year MTV hit the air. It is about how musicians don't really have to make good music...just good videos. Look at rap on MTV...bogus music with videos that everyone raves over.
2007-01-21 04:32:53 · answer #6 · answered by Perry L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh the birth of MTV how videos were being made and that was the end of radio AS WE KNEW IT up till that time everything changed most specifically apperances of new bands
2007-01-21 04:30:12 · answer #7 · answered by 'lil peanut 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Simple amusement I think. Maybe it's about the end of people listening to music and instead watching M-TV. It was the first video they played in August 1981. The second video they played was by pat Benetar. "You better Run!"
2007-01-21 04:29:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
its about music videos killing the careers of radio stars
2007-01-21 04:55:03 · answer #9 · answered by The Capo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was all about the arrival of MTV,were they showed videos,instead of just playing music,like the radio did for so many years prior
2007-01-21 04:38:50 · answer #10 · answered by jvg49er 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋