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Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song. Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys are marketing campaigns for food and other products. Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip". Since the creation and increased popularity of YouTube, mainstream artists now promote new music videos by releasing trailers of short promos on the site for their upcoming song and music video. Consequentially, YouTube has been converted into a social media platform for celebrities and artists to market themselves to their fans and audiences.

Solid State Survivor

Solid State Survivor was the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979. Solid State Survivor was never released in the United States, but many of the songs from this album were compiled for release in the States as the US pressing of ×∞Multiplies (1980), including the tracks "Behind the Mask", "Rydeen", "Day Tripper", and "Technopolis".Solid State Survivor is only one of a handful of YMO albums in which the track titles do not have a Japanese equivalent.

The album was an early example of synthpop, a genre that the band helped pioneer alongside their earlier album Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978), and it also contributed to the development of techno.Solid State Survivor won the Best Album Award at the 22nd Japan Record Awards, and it sold two million records. Several songs from the album have continued to be widely covered and sampled.

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Solid State Survivor contains some of Yellow Magic Orchestra's best-known songs, including "Rydeen", which combines Eastern and Western musical styles, in addition to drawing from animal sounds, particularly the rhythms of a running horse. "Rydeen" was often sampled or covered in early chiptune and video game music, including Sega's Super Locomotive (1982),Rabbit Software's Trooper Truck (1983),ZUN's Touhou: Highly Responsive to Prayers (1996), and the Martin Galway soundtracks for Ocean Software's Daley Thompson's Decathlon (1984) and Superior Software's Stryker's Run (1986).

Absolute Ego

Absolute Ego is the fourth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Aco, released on December 15, 1999.

Absolute Ego incorporates Aco's signature soul sound with the leanings of the more experimental, electronic style she adopts for her next two studio albums.

Track 5 is a cover of the song "Black Maybe," written by Stevie Wonder and performed by Syreeta.

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