Music Feature: When Music Videos Changed the Game

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This week’s Music Feature Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal takes a nostalgic yet critical look at The Death of MTV and how landmark music videos shaped pop culture as we know it. From Michael and Janet Jackson’s “Scream” to The Weekend and Daft Punk’s “I Feel It Coming”, and Missy Elliott’s “Work It”, he unpacks how these visual masterpieces turned songs into global sensations and asks, can the art of the music video ever make a true comeback?
6 Nov 2025 3PM English South Africa Education · Careers

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