We have looked at the song 'Addicted to Love' by Robert Palmer. First released in 1986 it has been adapted and borrowed throughout the years, it has been noted that this music video has influenced such music videos as Tone Lōc's "Wild Thing", Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like a woman!" where the women dancing in Palmer's music video are then swapped for male models dancing in the same way. Also Bowling for Soup's "1985" has been said to have been influenced by Palmer's music video and finally Beyoncé's video "Green Light" also is said to share many of the same elements.
Artists seem to borrow and adapt from other music videos to build off of, they often use key points or ideas from other music videos, this can be as a parody (as seen in Weird Al Yankovic's music videos in which he makes fun of mainstream bands by changing the words and making new videos). Or even this could be due to nostalgic purposes, 1985 by Bowling for Soup uses the essence of many different 'classic' music videos to create a feeling of nostalgia whilst acting as a parody at the same time.
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