10 Music Videos That Changed Music Forever

10. One - Metallica

At the start of the 80's, metal's representation on MTV was a bit too neon-colored for many headbangers to stomach. A lot of these acts either looked the same or had the same cookie-cutter pop song to sell to the teenage demographic. Just as the age of hair metal reached its pinnacle, one black and white video changed everything.

The video for Metallica's "One" was an amazing feat from both a visual and cultural perspective. This was one of the first major videos by a thrash metal act that got a major amount of airplay, thanks in no small part to the harrowing story on display. The song was inspired by the novel and film Johnny Got His Gun, which depicts a soldier who is badly injured in war and cannot communicate with the outside world.

Metallica use different snippets from the movie in conjunction with their riffs to create a mesmerizing collage of media that was impossible to take your eyes off of. Even with the song being 7 minutes, no one felt like the video dragged because of just how brutal it was. After "One" became a fixture on MTV, the time had come for the hair metal to be pushed aside for the new kings of heavy rock.