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Should the music video be described as "computer animation" - or a variation of this?

I'm of the opinion that it's a valid description to call the music video "computer animated" even though it's not 100% CGI, mainly because it's the CGI aspect that made the video groundbreaking. In all other respects there's nothing that makes the video outstanding. The sources used in the article all support the importance of CGI, and as such it should be mentioned in the lede as the main hook. The main source comments that [e]ven the live action scenes in “Money for Nothing,” like the fake music-videos-within-the-music-video and clips of Dire Straits performing in Budapest, were colored over using animated paint pixels. Just "live action animated" misses the point entirely of why the video deserves mention. Chaheel Riens (talk) 05:36, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

PS: I've only reverted the "live action animated" comment, as I feel that to be inaccurate - but I haven't re-inserted any CGI-type of description while we discuss. This falls within BRD. Chaheel Riens (talk) 05:39, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

I watched the video, read the article, and feel that live-action animated is the most accurate summary description based on the major part of the animation being the characters with the live action background. The coloring over of the live action with some CGI effects doesn't turn this into an animated film which is generally reserved for fully animated films with no live action at all in them. Perhaps it shouldn't be classified in that section of the article which was the way it originally was and just stick with the fuller explanation in the Music video section. The use of CGI is the innovation. I added some info to the lead to reflect that section. See if that works. Geraldo Perez (talk) 06:04, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

MTV Production Credit Title Card Sound

"The sound of Sting’s initial 'MTV' serves as the audio for MTV Entertainment Studios production credit title card."

Is there a source for this? I came to this article out of curiosity immediately after hearing the MTV title card sound before an episode of a show, and this line stood out to me as incorrect. The pitch changes in the title sound match the final "MTV" sung in the intro, not the initial one, the way I hear it. I didn't wanna make the edit myself though without mentioning it here cause idk if this counts as "original research" or whatever or if that even matters for this lol Belden Program Garfield (talk) 00:51, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

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