Michael Shore

Michael Shore argues that music videos are:

• recycled styles
• surface without substance
• simulated experience
• information overload
• image and style scavengers
• ambivalence (don't care)
• decadence (want luxury)
• immediate gratification
• image assaults and outre folks
• the death of content
• anesthetization of violence through chic
• adolescent make fantasies
• speed, power, girls and wealth
• classical storytelling's motifs