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  3. You miss watching MTV and you’d like a curated mixtape of the best music videos of the week.

  4. You want to read more about how videos “work” as an art form (and as a form of advertisement), how they’ve evolved since the 1980s (and earlier), how they connect to film/history/media/the internet, and why they’re still relevant in 2018.

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