Don brought up a really good point in his post - WHERE HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS GONE? It's a good fucking question. MTV is a sorry excuse for a music channel... and I wasn't even around when it WAS good so I've got nothing to compare it to. I haven't seen a music video on that channel since I started watching it, except for during TRL - and even then, you get a minute TOPS of the "top 10 requested music videos of the day" (who, and how, exactly are they polling? If people don't get to watch the videos in the first place, isn't it just a popularity contest over artists?)
I'll be the first to say, though, that I LOVE MTV's reality shows. Especially "True Life" and "Made." I go to MTV to watch those shows - not to look for videos because I know I won't find any (honestly, I just use YouTube for music videos). It's all a bunch of bullhocky and I take the shows for what they're worth: a bunch of media moguls trying and succeeding to shock audiences. America has become a nation that runs on shock and infotainment - not news and hard facts - and television execs know that and embrace it instead of trying to be visionaries and change the way we think...
And it's not a good thing. Our generation is falling by the wayside by watching "Super Sweet 16" (and its sister-spinoff "Exiled," where former sweet-16ers are sent to faraway lands to "see how the other half lives" - it's fucking amazing and I love seeing those girls whine their way across Iceland...) because they're taking this smut as serious business. We're no longer interested in who's going to win the election because we'll vote for whoever our best friend endorses (and whoever the major media outlet of their choice deems worthy). Palin? She'll get votes from our generation because she's pretty and has a cute son (but it doesn't matter that she'll drill for oil all over Alaska). Obama will get votes because he's the token black guy (but no one notices his ties to religious evangelists)...
...This one-sided debate I'm having with myself is really going nowhere fast! I don't know... watch the news. Get informed. Stop taking reality shows seriously because they're just as scripted as the music videos you should be watching on a network called MUSICtv...
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God I love you.
I've been having these debates with you lately and there are times where I thought I wasn't making progress...
the only thing I ask from people is that they get informed. Make an educated decision on their vote in the election... The liberal tendencies aside, don't take everything the media gives you as purity. It's not. Do your research on these candidates, you'll find out more about them than they're willing to tell you, and more accurate information than their opposition is feeding you. That's it, my argument in a nut shell broken down from every previous post I've made about politics.
As for MTV, I agree, I like the reality shows... particularly the first few seasons of Road rules and real world... I don't like their new challenge shows. Hell... even Adam and Dr. Drew on Loveline was cool... but the majority of the shows should be music videos...
VMA's are BS... and TRL... could you get a little more Hannah montana/Jonas brothers promotion going on ...really... TRL is loaded with too many Artists... and not enough musicians, and I'm disgusted by it.
- Don
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