New Wave's Visual Language Outlived the Genre
Angular, ironic, art-school strange: new wave built a visual identity so distinct it escaped the music entirely. The look that outlived its own decade.
May 28, 2026
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40 articles from the Videojam editorial team.
Phil Collins Facts: The 'In the Air Tonight' Myth and the Day He Played Two Continents
The drowning legend behind 'In the Air Tonight' (and why it's false), the time Phil Collins outran the clock on Concorde to play Live Aid twice in one day, and how a drummer became an accidental superstar.
May 27, 2026
What Makes a Jazz Performance Video Work When There's No 'Video' to Make
Jazz rarely gets the conceptual music video treatment, and that turns out to be its strength. On the quiet art of simply pointing a camera at musicians who are listening to each other.
May 24, 2026
Bee Gees Facts: How 'Stayin' Alive' Became a Literal Lifesaver
Doctors use 'Stayin' Alive' to time CPR, the Bee Gees secretly wrote half your parents' favourite songs, and that falsetto was a happy accident. The disco legends, explained.
May 22, 2026
The Unmistakable Look of 80s Synth-Pop, and Why It's Back
Neon, fog, and a future that never quite arrived. Why the visual world of 80s synth-pop proved impossible to kill, and keeps getting resurrected.
May 20, 2026
How the 90s R&B Video Defined an Entire Visual Era
Glossy, intimate, impossibly cool: the R&B videos of the 1990s built a visual language so complete that we're still borrowing from it. A look at why they still feel definitive.
May 16, 2026
Warehouse to Streaming: The Dance Music Video
Dance music started in rooms never meant to be filmed. How its visual language evolved from no visuals at all to a genre that reshaped the music video.
May 12, 2026
Acoustic on Camera: Why the Simplest Music Videos Are Often the Best
No CGI, no choreography, no budget: just a person, an instrument, and a camera that knows when to hold still. A case for the quiet power of the acoustic music video.
May 8, 2026
The AI Music Debacle: Lawsuits, Deepfakes, and the Fight Over Who Owns a Voice
AI music turned into a full-blown industry crisis in 2025: fake bands fooling Spotify, streaming flooded with AI tracks, a Copyright Office bombshell, and lawsuits that could decide who owns the sound of music.
Oct 6, 2025
How AI-Generated Music Got Here: The Milestones That Changed Everything
A plain-English timeline of AI music: from the fake Drake song that broke the internet in 2023 to the lawsuits, the first criminal fraud case, and the copyright fights that followed.
May 12, 2025
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