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Why aren't our music videos good enough for the American Audiences???? |
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Why aren't our music videos good enough for the American Audiences????
This has been bugging me for ages.
Why is it that many artists like Leona Lewis, Kid Cudi release music videos here and as soon as they get a little notoriety in the US, they come out with a different video for american audiences. For example, Leona Lewis' 'Bleeding Love', as soon as the states got an ear of it, there was a brand new video for the single. Personally i prefer the British version. It kinda pisses me off. Aren't the music video made for us, good enough for the Americans? |
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Leona's management were told by the networks that the first video was too much, so they did a new version for daytime and the Middle East and parts of Asia. And the first video for Bleeding Love was American anyway.
Both aired on the US television. |
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You also need to remember artists tend to have different management teams in the US, who will have the money to want to do their own videos.
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Though in cases like Daniel Bedingfield and Atomic Kitten, their UK videos were cheap ass and not good enough for the US market.
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I remember the All saints had to re do a video of their for the US market.. cant remember the song but they said it was because americans 'didnt understand the original video'
I dont mind them making different videos though.. sometimes the US videos end up being better.. |
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This has been bugging me for ages.
Why is it that many artists like Leona Lewis, Kid Cudi release music videos here and as soon as they get a little notoriety in the US, they come out with a different video for american audiences. For example, Leona Lewis' 'Bleeding Love', as soon as the states got an ear of it, there was a brand new video for the single. Personally i prefer the British version. It kinda pisses me off. Aren't the music video made for us, good enough for the Americans? |
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Leona's management were told by the networks that the first video was too much, so they did a new version for daytime and the Middle East and parts of Asia. And the first video for Bleeding Love was American anyway.
Both aired on the US television. |
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Are you sure? Why would they go to all the bother of making a new one if they are going to show both? I think she looks stunning in the US version.
Aside from location shooting in New York, the second video probably didn't cost that much. |
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It'll be the American media fatcats, being convinced that the US public will look upon anything even slightly visibly foriegn with horror. Remember all of our sitcoms that the TV bosses insisted would need to be remade completely in order to attract an American audience? Remember how the only reason that was ever given was that the programmes needed to be 'more suitable' for Americans, and that Americans 'won't understand all these British terms and references'? And it isn't just our stuff- remember all the 4kids anime dubs that had to have anything even remotely Japanese ripped out before the series could be aired?
It's just the USA's particular way of treating their viewers like idiots. If they're doing it with music videos too, it doesn't surprise me. |
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Turquoise, you're a bit OTT, comparing music videos to oversexualised Japanense anime. For the record, both Bleeding Love videos are American.
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Since when was Pokemon oversexualised? And they were cutting out rice balls and editing out Kanji (even really irrelevant Kanji on the background, as well as changing half the storylines). And I didn't just mention anime anyway- I was mostly talking about British sitcoms. The only reason I mentioned anime was to prove it isn't just British stuff that gets Americanised to death in the states.
Also, lots of music videos, from any and every country, are oversexualised. The USA media doesn't seem to have a problem with that in particular! It has nothing to do with sex! |
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Since when was Pokemon oversexualised? And they were cutting out rice balls and editing out Kanji (even really irrelevant Kanji on the background, as well as changing half the storylines)
Also, lots of music videos, from any and every country, are oversexualised. The USA media doesn't seem to have a problem with that in particular! It has nothing to do with sex! And do you really need me to pull up images of racist Pokemon, Team Rocket with their breasts hanging out, Team Rocket using a gun, and of course, the infamous epilepsy episode that caused 700 Japanese children to be rushed to hospital? |
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Leona's management were told by the networks that the first video was too much, so they did a new version for daytime and the Middle East and parts of Asia. And the first video for Bleeding Love was American anyway.
Both aired on the US television. But the 1st video was primarily intended for British audiences. Quote:
Though in cases like Daniel Bedingfield and Atomic Kitten, their UK videos were cheap ass and not good enough for the US market.
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It'll be the American media fatcats, being convinced that the US public will look upon anything even slightly visibly foriegn with horror. Remember all of our sitcoms that the TV bosses insisted would need to be remade completely in order to attract an American audience? Remember how the only reason that was ever given was that the programmes needed to be 'more suitable' for Americans, and that Americans 'won't understand all these British terms and references'?
It's just the USA's particular way of treating their viewers like idiots. If they're doing it with music videos too, it doesn't surprise me. That pisses me off aswell. I just saw an ad for the US version of Life on mars. Are Americans soo special that they need a existing series to be recreated just for them. Can't they watch our version of Life on Mars? Surely it would it be a cheaper alternative. We don't demand that US shows like LOST and Heroes be recreated for British audiences. |
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the americans ALWAYS remake everything, god knows why, its especially irritating when they remake british tv shows, they just want everything americanised, when infact they end up ruining it altogether.
in the case of leona's video, i found it completely bizarre that they chose to remake it - considering the US version was far more dull and pointless compared to the original video, they should have saved the money and put it 2 better use ! |
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