E.g. Vid 8: Madonna - Papa Don't Preach

Track: Papa Don't Preach
Artist: Madonna
Genre: Pop
Director: James Foley
Year Released: 1986

The Papa Don't Preach music video combines narrative, set in New York where Madonna plays a tomboy, juxtaposed with performance where she is alone in a large dark room and looking glamorous. In the video Madonna meets a guy, gets pregnant and struggles to tell her father who she is shown to be close to, but does tell him and he eventually accepts it and hugs her. The visual narrative of the video corresponds directly to the song lyrics.

Glamorous Madonna

Tomboy Madonna

At the start of the video there is a different shot of the same location in New York for every beat, which I think works effectively for this song as the beats at the start of the song are so prominent.

The video was directed by James Foley who also directed Madonna's Live to Tell. The two videos are very similar in style, most noticeably in the performance where Madonna is in a dark large room singing alone.