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Video Killed the Radio Star (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a 1979 song by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley, first performed by Woolley in 1979 for his debut album English Garden before Horn and Downes recorded their own version as The Buggles, becoming the debut single for the latter's 1980 debut album The Age of Plastic. Though both versions saw single releases parallel to one another in 1979, the Buggles' rendition was also released with a promotional music video that was shot in a day on a budget of $50,000.While reaching the top ten chart positions in many Anglosphere and European countries, the song barely scraped a Top 40 position in the United States when it was first released. But then on August 1, 1981, at 12:01 AM EST, MTV hit the airwaves for the first time, and aptly, the music video was the very first to play after the promotional bumper. It had since been used as a milestone, like when MTV played its millionth music video on February 27, 2000, or when MTV Classic opened in Ireland and the UK on March 2010.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning: The Buggles' version rewrites the second half of the first verse, replacing the narrator's fantasizing over old radio stars with a description of how new technology ends up perverting older classics, tying in with the Buggles' dystopian lore (about a mad scientist pumping out Shoddy Knockoff Product versions of classic hits) and more thoroughly emphasizing the Ludd Was Right themes. | |
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Chroma Key: An early usage towards the beginning, and it shows, particularly when the explosives effect have bled into the girl where some darker shades in the hair should be. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: Trevor Horn's part as the eponymous radio star in the Buggles' music video is shot in black and white, with the contrast cranked up to the highest possible level. | |
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