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DOES music videos detracts from the quality of the music by placing so much emphasis on non-musical elements

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imo, no it doesn't

A music video is only a pleasant supplement to the song itself.

It helps in visualizing what you want your audience/listeners to think and feel when they hear it.

Music videos are an important aspect of an artist's overall artistic vision. A music video is a focus point

it catches your attention, or at least helps to do so

Having a music video may encourage artists to focus on making music that is danceable or capable of evoking an image in the listeners head of "what the song would LOOK like," but this isn't always a bad thing; in fact, it can be a good thing because it puts the artist in the in the listeners point of view

This often leads to positive changes, such as adding more features to the track like a storyline which, while not directly related to the music, can still have a positive impact on it by

by for example encouraging the artist to: adjust the lyrics so they'll be more meaningful/relatable to people, change the melody of the track to fit the impression it wants to make, change certain aspects of the song to make it less repetitive, fix the song structure to make it sound less messy or overwhelming for the listener, and so on.

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