What has happened to MTV?
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Music Television?
I remember when I was growing up - when MTV first started, and all over the television would be ads with various musicians saying, "I want my MTV."
I doubt you'd see that these days. It's not the same as it used to be.
A check of the day's programming offers: MTV Cribs, The Real World, Pimp My Ride, etc.
No videos in site. The only time you may see videos is if you happen past TRL.
TRL may show you about one minute of a new video, ranked in a top 10 order.
My question: How can people vote on their favorite video, if they never show any?
It's the same garbage on a different day on that show. They pimp the latest pop "hit" and that's all viewers get to see.
Maybe some people have MTV2, but not enough. And even that show is soon to change - the next season of Wildboyz with Steve-O and Chris Pontius is set to debut on the "deuce" early this year.
While MTV2 currently shows a variety of videos, it looks like that will soon end.
MTV continues to force cookie cutter pop music down the throats of viewers while ignoring those with talent.
Case in point - Ashlee Simpson. If she didn't have an MTV show, no one would even give her the time of day. She'd be another Aaron Carter - the sibling of some big pop star who is trying to cash in on the family "suck"-cess.
Of course, there is a solution to this problem, and it's called don't watch. I remember when people would look forward to the MTV Music Awards, and how videos were a topic of discussion.
Now, you rarely hear about a video, and the Music Awards have almost become a complete joke.
Some new channels are popping up however. One called Fuse is available on the standard cable package and only plays videos and interviews. It's like MTV used to be, and should be.
Are there even any MTV VJs anymore? I would think not, because in order to be a "video jockey" you'd have to play videos.
Even MTV Cribs has taken to interviewing sports stars instead of musicians.
It's just another one of the problems on a long list of what's wrong with music today.
Music Television?
I remember when I was growing up - when MTV first started, and all over the television would be ads with various musicians saying, "I want my MTV."
I doubt you'd see that these days. It's not the same as it used to be.
A check of the day's programming offers: MTV Cribs, The Real World, Pimp My Ride, etc.
No videos in site. The only time you may see videos is if you happen past TRL.
TRL may show you about one minute of a new video, ranked in a top 10 order.
My question: How can people vote on their favorite video, if they never show any?
It's the same garbage on a different day on that show. They pimp the latest pop "hit" and that's all viewers get to see.
Maybe some people have MTV2, but not enough. And even that show is soon to change - the next season of Wildboyz with Steve-O and Chris Pontius is set to debut on the "deuce" early this year.
While MTV2 currently shows a variety of videos, it looks like that will soon end.
MTV continues to force cookie cutter pop music down the throats of viewers while ignoring those with talent.
Case in point - Ashlee Simpson. If she didn't have an MTV show, no one would even give her the time of day. She'd be another Aaron Carter - the sibling of some big pop star who is trying to cash in on the family "suck"-cess.
Of course, there is a solution to this problem, and it's called don't watch. I remember when people would look forward to the MTV Music Awards, and how videos were a topic of discussion.
Now, you rarely hear about a video, and the Music Awards have almost become a complete joke.
Some new channels are popping up however. One called Fuse is available on the standard cable package and only plays videos and interviews. It's like MTV used to be, and should be.
Are there even any MTV VJs anymore? I would think not, because in order to be a "video jockey" you'd have to play videos.
Even MTV Cribs has taken to interviewing sports stars instead of musicians.
It's just another one of the problems on a long list of what's wrong with music today.
posted by "Dakota" at
1/07/2005 09:48:00 AM
1 Comments:
Weird. MTV-USA doesn't have ten secondary channels that consist only of music videos?
Here, in Europe, we have MTV (as described, plays videos in the middle of the night), MTV Hits (continuous videos, no VJs), MTV2 ("alternative" music), MTV Base (hip-hop), MTV Dance (guess), VH1 (older - mostly not music), VH2 (VH1 but actually plays videos), VH1 Classic (plays 80s videos), TMF (chart), The Box (chart), Kiss (urban), Smash Hits! (chart), Magic (soft chart, plays about the last five years), Q (recent music, mostly just people who can actually play their own instruments), Kerrang! (rock/metal), Chart Show (chart), The Vault (5+ year old chart), B4 (unreleased chart), The Hits (chart), Classic FM TV (classical), Channel U (hip hop), The Amp ("alternative"), Scuzz (rock/metal), Flaunt (girlie pop).
That's 22 channels that just play music, plus the MTV and VH1 that mostly don't. About half of these (all the MTV/VH/TMF channels) are owned by MTV; the rest aren't.
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Richard Gadsden, at 9:16 PM
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