Got over it by 86 and never looked back.
Still historians will have to acknowledge that MTV was a cultural icon of the early 80's.
Flame away and discuss, it's saturday have fun.
Always on , my default channel. Videos got too expensive to make. I miss it. Music today isn’t video worthy anyway.
They got rid of music, headbanger’s ball, and the shows like Aeon Flux, Oddities, and The Max.
They heavily backed rap culture and everything it entails.
And even infected VH1 who decided to copy it.
“I want my MTV!!”
I was different in the early 80s, too.
Or here’s a thought: current music has gotten to a point where no one of any age wants to hear it.
I was all of 21 yrs old when MTV went on. Me and my buddies where watching at the launch as, it got a lot of press, but in the end we just didn’t “get it” . I was surprised at how popular it seemed to get.
The former VJ’s are on Sirius XM now.
I want my...
I want my MTV.
Sitting in front of a screen and watching music set to video has never really appealed to me. As well, most of those videos were pretty awful.
There was a time in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I watched MTV in the middle of the night while feeding my infant children who woke up in the middle of the night, as there was nothing else on at that hour. Some of the videos from that era remind me of those times. It was interesting seeing how late-night MTV went from mostly hair metal videos (i.e. Cinderella) to grunge videos (i.e. Nirvana) pretty much overnight in early 1992.
Except for “YouTube and TikTok” this sounds like a story out of the 90s
When I think of MTV, I think of Beavis and Butthead.
It was the most popular, most watched show on that network.
(heh-heh-heh)
They started shifting to reality shows as far back as 1986. That’s when I quit watching (except for Bevis & Butthead in the mid-90’s).
If I remember correctly, MTV got into trouble because they did not play enough black oriented music. When they ceased playing music it was mostly a black music station, few white entertainers on it.
There’s a simple explanation—the internet. Using your own search parameters you can find whatever music videos appeal to you the most. Artist still make videos and post them on their own YouTube pages. Music fans do the same thing. And it’s a vast network that they control. I still watch music videos that way—old stuff, new stuff, personal favorites. And every now and then I make an interesting discovery.
Because it sucks and did suck.
I’ve always hated it. Ruined keg parties in college. Zombies would rather sit and stare at the same 12 videos for hours rather than mingle and hook up.
Had to pretend to like it to get laid.
To this day I HATE Duran Duran’s “Rio”. Only because it was on all day.
Recently? MTV has been total crap for at least30 years. It was great in the 80s when they played music.
Oh, wait, she's been hanging out at Fox recently.
Sheeeet... MTV barely made it out of the 80s I never really watched it but I also never really understood their infatuation with heavy metal 24/7/365
Time for David Ellison to sell MTV Group (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, BET, Logo, Paramount Network, et al) off. Keep Pop, CBSSN, Al Jazeera (Paramount owns 49% of Al Jazeera’s media group, which includes Miramax and the BeIn sports channel in the United States that serves as CBS Sports Network’s secondary channel), TV Land (old Paramount shows), and break them from MTV just as the NFL wanted.
Al Jazeera could air the UFC’s Fight nights from the Middle East or Dana White’s Contender Series.