music video

noun

1. a commercial video featuring a performance of a popular song, often through a stylized dramatization by the performers with lip-syncing and special effects.

Example Sentences

The album opens with “Hammer,” in which she sings, “Some days, I’m a woman / Some days, I’m a man” over a strobing synth lick; it’s a theme she revisits in “Man of the Year,” whose music video shows Lorde pulling off a white T-shirt then binding her breasts with strips of duct tape.

From Los Angeles Times

In 2016, Kidman and Urban released a giddy music video of themselves singing to the duet.

From Los Angeles Times

On Tuesday, Young was nominated in the UK Music Video Award's best pop music video category for One Thing, a song on her recently released album I'm Only F****** Myself.

From BBC

Valbona Shekaj's son Klevi Shekaj, 23, was murdered along with 15-year-old Leo Reid while they were at a music video shoot in Archway, north London, in 2023.

From BBC

The men, who were described in court as "smirking" killers, ran amok at the music video shoot and fatally stabbed Klevi and Leo and severely injured Abdullah Abdullahi, 28, for an "adrenaline rush".

From BBC

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