"music videos were the soundtrack of pop culture," but then the audience demanded "more genre shows," and MTV moved into animation, reality TV and social campaigns. Bovine Scatology (BS).
MTV's execs simply moved their programming into the left's cultural sewer because they wanted to.
The network (and their subsequent award shows) are disgusting garbage.
Imagine. Just a few decades ago, MTV was a platform for the music of the likes of Tom Petty, The Who, and the Rolling Stones.
When it went "Ghetto", things started to go down quickly. Then it became a full time show for cultural "reality" dysfunction, sex, and a simmer cauldron of hatred for anything remotely related to morality.
And Al Gore was ready to accept their support. The PMRC Senate hearings were a stunt to get Al Gore national exposure as he ran for the White House in 1988. He got the #2 position for 8 years after that and a close presidential run in 2000. He’s remained on the stage ever since and has not brought up “dirty music” ever again.
He savaged careers (including the store clerks who got arrested by vice squads) for personal advancement.