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The day the music died, MTV is shutting down its music channels after four decades
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| 10/15/2025
| Louisa | La Passion Voutee
Posted on 10/15/2025 1:55:01 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
There was a time when three letters defined cool. M-T-V.
If you grew up anywhere between the neon ’80s and the streaming 2000s, MTV wasn’t just television, it was a lifestyle. It gave us Madonna before social media, Nirvana before YouTube, and Beyoncé before Instagram. It shaped music, fashion, and the very idea of youth culture.
Now, after more than forty years of rewiring global pop culture, MTV is beginning to power down some of its most iconic music channels around the world, and for millions of fans, it feels like saying goodbye to an old friend.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: goodriddance; mtv; music
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I didn’t even know MTV was still on the air but nevertheless they were very innovative when they first started. The ZZ top videos were my favorites.
To: Kid Shelleen
MTV wasn’t just television, it was a lifestyle Which was very much a problem.
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posted on
10/15/2025 1:57:42 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Music industry is literally all Taylor Swift right now anyway.
To: Kid Shelleen
Marth Quinn was my favorite VJ
To: Kid Shelleen
Fun fact: Kennedy from Fox News was an MTV VJ back in the day!
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:02:21 PM PDT
by
Flatus I. Maximus
(I never left the Democratic Party. It left me, and every time I look it keeps going further left.)
To: Kid Shelleen
I can't believe that it is 40 years since A-Ha's video of "Take on Me" was released.
If it wasn't for that video, people would be saying, "A-who?"
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:02:49 PM PDT
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: Kid Shelleen
Spotify killed the video star...
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:03:36 PM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: DeplorablePaul
And (Lisa) Kennedy who is currently on Fox News.
To: Kid Shelleen
I hated it. Ruined college keg parties. Everyone turned into TV watching zombies looking at the same 8 videos they ran 24/7.
Whenever I hear Duran Duran sing “Rio” I vomit.
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:04:26 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: CondoleezzaProtege
One of my fraternity brothers was a VJ on a local station. That was weird. He was a comedian.
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:05:34 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
To: Hatteras
Do we see a rocket crash into earth. Blowing the MTV uplink to smithereens ?
To: AppyPappy; Kid Shelleen
That’s cool though!
And to add, let’s not forget that:
Sean Duffy, Trump’s Secretary of Transportation is a “Road Rules” alum.
As is his wife, Rachel Campos Duffy of Fox News.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Sean Duffy, Trump’s Secretary of Transportation is a “Road Rules” alum. Hah! Road. Rules. Transportation? Talk about foreshadowing.
To: Kid Shelleen
First time I saw MTV was in the day room at LAFB. It was pretty cool - and sometimes shocking - to put faces to voices.
I thought they only did scummy 'reality' and 'color correct' shows nowadays.
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:09:51 PM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(A Free Press MAY distort the truth, but a Controlled Press WILL distort the truth.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Daisy Fuentes was so hot...
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:09:54 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
("I am Charlie Kirk!")
To: DallasBiff
I can’t believe that it is 40 years since A-Ha’s video of “Take on Me” was released.
I believe it’s the only music video on YT with over 2 billion views.
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:10:58 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
("I am Charlie Kirk!")
To: Kid Shelleen
Sheeeeeyit. When was the last time MTV played music?
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:11:16 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
To: Tell It Right
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:11:25 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Kid Shelleen
What was the first song ever played on MTV?
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posted on
10/15/2025 2:12:15 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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