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Happy 35th Anniversary, MTV!
NY Daily News ^
| 8/1/16
| Nicolas Parco
Posted on 08/01/2016 7:31:18 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Are you sure you want your MTV?
On its 35th birthday, a quick glimpse at the network shows its hardly what it once was.
While change isnt always easy... its not always needed either.
What started as a network dedicated to airing music videos and sharing insight on the topic has transformed into a smorgasbord of reality shows that teens who listen to Justin Bieber are glued to.
Its a far cry from the stations days of 120 Minutes and Daria and Kurt Loder staring into your soul telling you what you needed to know at the top of every hour.
Even Total Request Live had more substance than what MTV passes off for content now as it actually featured music.
For what its worth, the top minds at the network know everyone wants their MTV the old one, that is.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1980s; genx; mtv; musictelevision; newwave; rock
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Let There Be Rock!
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
1989 was the last I watched MTV. After that, it turned into crap.
To: Right Brother
Yes - Aug. 1, 1981 through Dec. 31, 1989 were the golden years. After that, it’s all RAP.... er... CRAP!
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:36:04 AM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Hip Hop and Rap are not music ,,, it is the lack of music performed by talentless thugs and wanna bees .
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:36:22 AM PDT
by
Lionheartusa1
()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Video killed the radio star.
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:36:42 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(<<<<<a<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I think MTV--getting away from showing music videos--needs to figure out that they need go to back to that format at least much of the day.
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:38:46 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: RayChuang88
“MTV Classic” debuts today — a network airing 1990s videos.... “VH1 Classic” already airs 1970s and 1980s videos....
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:40:40 AM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
This channel is still on?
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:41:21 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: Lionheartusa1
Agreed. It is the cultural equivalent of a monkey flinging its own feces.
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:41:50 AM PDT
by
Lucas McCain
(The universe is made up of electrons, protons, neutrons, and morons.)
To: Lionheartusa1
Hip Hop isn’t music to begin with; it is a culture.
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:44:29 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Are you sure you want your MTV?
No. Who even watches MTV anymore? MTV should be about music, music videos and Beavis & Butthead. The other networks already have the trash reality-show territory covered.
To: Right Brother
When it moved into rap they destroyed MTV. Another good thing destroyed because it was “too white”.
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:49:28 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
And Youtube killed the video channel. Why accept whatever dreck they run when you can find the video yourself?
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:49:52 AM PDT
by
RedStateRocker
(Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Time has not been good to some of the VJs:
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:50:19 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Seeing where the mess ended up makes me appreciate the early days, when fixed scenes of incoming ocean waves played for long stretches due to lack of content.
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:50:42 AM PDT
by
avenir
(I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
To: avenir
I like watching the VH1 classics. MTV is a worthless shell of itself.
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:54:57 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Hits for Hillary. Get paid to sign onto YouTube and watch Hillary's speech over and over.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
I like “That Metal Show” and “Totally 80s” on VH1 Classic....
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posted on
08/01/2016 7:59:40 AM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I don’t remember the actual launch of MTV with “Video Killed The Radio Star” but toward the end of that first week you could tell that it was going to be the “Talk of the Town”.
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posted on
08/01/2016 8:22:33 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: equaviator
The day ... the music ... died .........
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posted on
08/01/2016 8:27:35 AM PDT
by
bankwalker
(Does a fish know that it's wet?)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
For a short decade, it was the greatest advertising medium for music ever invented. It spawned hundreds of artists and an amazing explosion of creativity. It had the best demographic for advertisement.
What killed it was a combination of liberal political correctness and the greed of the music industry which hated the idea of anyone else profiting as much as a penny of “their” money they squeezed out of performers for their music.
But it was fun while it lasted.
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posted on
08/01/2016 8:32:43 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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