That's been the style in video dating to at least MTV (back when it, you know, showed music videos). The style apparently has a name, Post-classical editing:

That's been the style in video dating to at least MTV (back when it, you know, showed music videos). The style apparently has a name, Post-classical editing: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-classical_editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-classical_editing> I'm ... not particularly a fan myself and often slow videos considerably to savour the detail.