What started off as us planning to rattle off our favorite music videos turned into an epic history of the Asian American music video form, with much-needed help from our Potluck Podcast braintrust. Impress your friends with your knowledge of Asian American music video, from pre- and early-YouTube to today, with these audio Cliff Notes. We break down the history, from the inspired to the embarrassing, from those videos we got through FTP servers to these modern YouTube videos that rival the production value of anything we saw on MTV's Total Request Live back in the day.

And search YouTube for "Asian American Music Videos Saturday School" for our YouTube playlist of every music video we talk about in this episode!

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