Editing Music video (section)

====Lyric videos====
A '''lyric video''' is a type of music video in which the [[lyrics]] to the song are the primary visual element of the video. As such, they can be created with relative ease and often serve as a supplemental video to a more traditional music video.

The music video for [[R.E.M.]]'s 1986 song "[[Fall on Me (R.E.M. song)|Fall on Me]]" interspersed the song's lyrics with abstract film footage. In 1987, [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] released a video for his song "[[Sign o' the Times (song)|Sign o' the Times]]". The video featured the song's words pulsing to the music, presented alongside abstract geometric shapes, an effect created by Bill Konersman.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKXMvInfbyEC&pg=PA20 |page=20 |title=Rewind, Play, Fast Forward: The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video |first1=Henry |last1=Keazor |first2=Thorsten |last2=Wübbena |publisher=transcript Verlag |year=2010 |isbn=978-3837611854 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aH1OGro9bkC&pg=PT146 |page=146 |title=R.E.M. <nowiki>|</nowiki> Fiction: An Alternative Biography |first=David |last=Buckley |publisher=Random House |year=2012 |isbn=978-1448132461}}</ref> The following year, the video for the [[Talking Heads]] single "[[(Nothing But) Flowers]]" composed of the song's lyrics superimposed onto or next to members of the band, was released. In 1990, [[George Michael]] released "Praying for Time" as a lyric video. He had refused to make a traditional music video, so his label released a simple clip that displayed the song's lyrics on a black screen.<ref>{{cite web|last=Blankenship|first=Mark|title=More Than Words: The Art Of The Lyric Video |date=February 29, 2012 |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/02/29/147637692/more-han-words-the-art-of-the-lyric-video |publisher=NPR |access-date=December 29, 2012}}</ref>

Lyric videos rose to greater prominence in the 2010s, when it became relatively easy for artists to disperse videos through websites such as [[YouTube]].<ref name="ew1">Strecker, Erin (October 14, 2011). [https://ew.com/article/2011/10/14/lyric-videos-is-this-a-trend-now-britney-spears-criminal-joins-the-youtube-fray/  Lyric Videos: Is this a trend now? Britney Spears' 'Criminal' joins the YouTube fray], ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''</ref> Many do not feature any visual related to the musician in question, but merely a background with the lyrics appearing over it as they are sung in the song.<ref name="ew1"/> In 2011, death metal band Krokmitën released the first lyric video for an entire album, "Alpha-Beta".<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ZfzJOI-XP9I Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120311074416/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfzJOI-XP9I&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfzJOI-XP9I/ |title=Krokmitën - 'Alpha-Beta' |via=YouTube |date=June 2, 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The concept album video featured imagery pulsing to the music and stylized typography created by bandleader Simlev. As of 2017, the 2016 song "[[Closer (Chainsmokers song)#Lyric video|Closer]]" by [[The Chainsmokers]], featuring vocalist [[Halsey (singer)|Halsey]], is the most-watched lyric video on YouTube.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/chainsmokers-coldplay-youtube-record-day-views-lyric-video-7709334/ |title=The Chainsmokers & Coldplay Break YouTube Record for Most Single-Day Lyric Video Views |last=Stutz |first=Colin |magazine=Billboard |date=March 1, 2017 |access-date=July 23, 2024}}</ref>