Music videos are often criticized for several reasons: they can sexualize children; they function primarily as advertisements; they are seen as inauthentic representations of artists and songs; media theorists disagree on how to analyze them; and they limit the freedom of individual interpretation of songs.

1. 5 PROBLEMS WITH
MUSIC VIDEOS.
By Chloe Phillips

2. 1. Music videos are at the
heart of controversy
about the sexualisation
of children.

3. 2. Music videos are just
adverts.

4. 3. Music videos are
dismissed for being
inauthentic.

5. 4. Media theorists can’t
decide on how to make
sense of music videos:
Modern art?
Pornography?

6. 5. Music videos take
away your freedom to
interpret a song for
yourself.