The Rise of Music Videos

In the 80's, music videos became popularized with the rise of MTV. Music videos were a new and exciting way to showcase an artist's music and quickly became extremely popular among teens and young adults. Although music videos are a great way for an artist to spread it's music to a larger audience, I wonder if there are consequences to having video associated with music. The production associated with some music videos is so vast that the music can become secondary to the video. I think this is especially apparent in many modern rap videos. These music videos commonly have expensive sports cars, yachts, mansions, and gold jewelery. I feel like all of these things can act to divert attention away from the music. My question is, do you think that high production music videos take away from the music? Why or why not? Do you think that these videos are artistic and add to the music, or do they just attempt to captivate their audience by using outrageous images?