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The day the music died, MTV is shutting down its music channels after four decades
Yahoo News ^ | 10/15/2025 | Louisa | La Passion Voutee

Posted on 10/15/2025 1:55:01 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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To: Kid Shelleen

Video killed the radio star. Then, video killed itself. A murder suicide.


41 posted on 10/15/2025 2:24:38 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Who??


42 posted on 10/15/2025 2:29:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Redmen4ever

You’re too old to lose it, too young to choose it
And the clock waits so patiently on your song
You walk past the café, but you don’t eat
When you’ve lived too long

Oh, no, no, no, you’re a rock ‘n’ roll suicide


43 posted on 10/15/2025 2:33:06 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Kid Shelleen

They ruined our young women.


44 posted on 10/15/2025 2:33:59 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: dfwgator

And now she’s married to Richard Marx.


45 posted on 10/15/2025 2:34:11 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: dfwgator

It was hard to take seriously one Tabitha Soren doing the news.


46 posted on 10/15/2025 2:34:20 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Kid Shelleen

Like Blockbuster


47 posted on 10/15/2025 2:39:18 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Sacajaweau

To think this was almost 2 decades ago…

https://youtube.com/shorts/8KBijMa3MVo?si=Qveg0Gq8ahsRuyrO


48 posted on 10/15/2025 2:39:23 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Fledermaus

The young lady was hotter than hell, even though the band was named after a planet Jane Fonda visits in “Barbarella” :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTizYn3-QN0


49 posted on 10/15/2025 2:48:36 PM PDT by JeemBeau
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To: Kid Shelleen

I prefer to listen to the music and just let my own mind’s eye create the visuals.


50 posted on 10/15/2025 2:49:21 PM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: dfwgator

I liked that cute chick on Remote Control. I remember Sandler would laugh out songs for contestants to guess.


51 posted on 10/15/2025 2:50:01 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: dfwgator

Sting’s label threatened to sue Mark Knopfler for Sting’s opening line “I want my MTV” claiming it was identical to the line “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”.

IIRC, Sting eventually got songwriter credit.


52 posted on 10/15/2025 2:53:37 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Tell It Right

Agreed. They are a large part of the problem.


53 posted on 10/15/2025 2:56:01 PM PDT by albie
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To: Kid Shelleen

Their “get out the vote” campaign was very influential. For liberals.


54 posted on 10/15/2025 2:58:03 PM PDT by albie
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To: Kid Shelleen

It long ago became the degenerate masochist homosexual reality show channel. /spit


55 posted on 10/15/2025 3:01:14 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

MTV: gone the way of rotary telephones and 78 rpm Bakelite records ...


56 posted on 10/15/2025 3:01:30 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Texas Eagle


The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video)
57 posted on 10/15/2025 3:10:43 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: dfwgator

I got that album within a few months of when it first came out.

But it was just about three months ago, that I solved an ancient mystery. I learned what the line from Rock’n’Roll Suicide “Don’t let the milk float cloud your mind” (on all the lyrics sites as “ride your mind”) meant. I was reading a British detective book called “Slow Horses”, which I subsequently found out is a TV series. It referred to a “milk float”, and it was obviously a British term for milk delivery truck. Which makes sense in the song, because the protagonist is going home at daybreak.


58 posted on 10/15/2025 3:11:44 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: DeplorablePaul

She was every dude’s favorite back in the day.


59 posted on 10/15/2025 3:13:20 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Tell It Right

MTV hasn’t been about music for decades.


60 posted on 10/15/2025 3:14:23 PM PDT by BOBWADE (God Bless America)
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