Posted on 12/11/2025 6:29:27 PM PST by Angelino97
Shut the MTV Networks down, David. Sell them with selling Fake News CNN.
The only of the “mainstream” MTV channels still playing music videos is CMT, and that’s only six hours a day in the morning.
“I will probably get beat up for this, but I really think MTV destroyed real music.”
Autotune and formulaic song writing killed real music.
She may get love, but she won’t get mine…
Lots of heavy metal bands and pop-metal bands got big via MTV. Would Def Leppard have become as big as they were (and still are) if not for MTV? There's no telling. Probably not as big. Video definitely helped them along.
Martha Quinn was born in Albany, NY, on May 11, 1959, and raised in Ossining, NY. She is the daughter of David Quinn, an attorney, and Nina Pattison, a retirement counselor, and the stepdaughter of financial columnist Jane Bryant Quinn.
You tube feels more authentic. MTV always came across as contrived.
Never got much out of MTV but maybe Beavis & Butthead as a pair on “ungrateful stupes”.
MTV’s legacy is that of an activist cultural sewer during a time of American collapse.
Too bad, because MTV now just sucks and it has been this way for over 20 years.
The Beatles were one of the first groups to use videos.
Strawberry Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8
Honestly the only time I see that it’s still on is when TNT has something decent on (right next to it on our lineup). I scroll up through MTV to get there. I haven’t really stopped there since the early 1990s. And I used to run CATV marketing departments for our region.
And MTV never gave us good stuff for our annual employee golf tournament. So…no great loss.
When they started showing reality shows in the 90’s is when it really started going downhill. When they started playing a lot of rap (Yo MTV Raps) was the beginning of the end.
I would say Rap, politics, and then reality shows is what killed it. They stopped playing music for most of the time was the final end. Really, I don’t know anyone that still watches anymore.
Like someone else said, you can watch youtube now for the music videos you want, so it has no purpose anymore. And it doesn’t play music videos anyway now.
MTV killed grassroots motorsport by taking sprint car racing and grassroots Late Model racing of the Midwest off television. This hurt NASCAR, INDYCAR, and World of Outlaws that they’ve never recovered. They also committed Murder on Music Row in Nashville.
Bingo. My GenX interest was somewhere between zero and none with reality TV and rap music…. and it still is!
IF MTV was wise, they would diversified with the audience, creating unique channels on music preferences. If they did do that I must have missed it. There was that part about going to school and the workforce that became a priority, but if I knew I could watch rock music evolve on such a channel I would have.
Nesmith invented the modern style of narrative music video, and the concept of a music video tv show.
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