Abstract music videos are videos with seemingly unrelated visuals, or visuals that are of a single kind: That is, driving around at night and taking video of all the colored lights. But the Abstract music video is not an afterthought as some, especially Vérité, videos can be. Many are very well conceived and scripted video productions that use a variety of images that, on the surface, do not seem to be related. When digging deeper most Abstract music videos are well-conceived.
This is a type of narrative but the images do not tell a story so much as they depict a mood or feeling the music helps tell the story:
This video is an example of an Abstract music video that focuses on a place or object with other images to fill out the "story":
Some very abstract imagery with overlapping images — then takes the song as a point of inspiration:
This video mixes performance, narrative and good black and white photography to create an Abstract video with emotion:
The use of various images almost qualifies this as a Mashup video. However, the images do not seem to revolve around a theme as closely as a Mashup. With the overlaying of images and color flashes this video borders on psychedelic:
Again, a moody, almost psychedelic video:
Using nighttime city lights and kaleidoscope camera effects, this is a truly abstract and psychedelic video.
