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MTV, still clueless after all these years
The New York Daily News ^
| August 7, 2006
| Stanley Crouch
Posted on 08/07/2006 9:45:48 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
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Video killed the radio star...
In all seriousness, Crouch makes an excellent point.
To: .cnI redruM
It's too late...
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:49:14 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: .cnI redruM
I quit watching MTV after they became a tool for the Moonbat crowd (i.e. during the first Gulf War and the 1992 elections). Haven't looked at it since.
To: frogjerk
What type of inhumane person would put a cat inside of a bag to begin with?
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:50:13 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Those who don't fight evil condemn those who do.)
To: .cnI redruM
I've never been able to see music videos as anything but childish indulgences by vain posers who like to see themselves on camera. In most cases, the actions in the vid don't have a thing to do with the music. And in the cases where they do, it's generally little more than soft-core porn. Or some hack filmmaker's idea of "art cinema:" meaningless montages of affected claptrap jump-edited into a visual jumble. When it doesn't make any sense, the filmmaker can then say that you don't appreciate visual subtlety. Personally, I say the emperor has no clothes.
I think it's time we update the lyrics to "Idiots killed the video star."
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:51:38 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: DemforBush
The first ten years of MTV were classic though.
Real music videos. Real VJ's who didn't talk like they had just stepped out of the 'hood.
Great music. Great videos.
I wish they'd start re-running MTV (and even VH-1) from that period.
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:52:26 AM PDT
by
MplsSteve
To: .cnI redruM
To: DemforBush
I quit watching MTV when they quit showing music (around 1986).
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:54:00 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: .cnI redruM
MTV is blocked on my set at home. It's been a long time since it was about music, music that any self-respecting person would want their children to listen to.
That goes the same with any channel that promotes the ghetto lifestyle as "normal" or "acceptable". Block it right on outta there !!!
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:54:18 AM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
To: .cnI redruM
You can blame MTV. You can blame money.
I blame the community leaders who said, "Yo! We be victims! Don't let the Man dis you! You got street cred, yo! Keep it real, bro!"
Without support and encouragement from the community, these MTV images which Crouch decries would have had a very short shelf-life.
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:54:25 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
( “I'm the Emperor, and I want dumplings!” (German: Ich bin der Kaiser und will Knödel.))
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To: .cnI redruM
MTV (almost) killed Rock n' Roll. Look at what happened to what started out as a perfectly good hard rock & blues band like ZZ Top - ruined by MTV. The video made them forget about the music.
To: .cnI redruM
I don't even have to do active putting. I just drop the bag on the ground after the groceries are out of it, and one of the three will be inside it in about half a second.
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:56:20 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(who is having the best day ever!)
To: DemforBush
I quit watching MTV after they became a tool for the Moonbat crowd (i.e. during the first Gulf War and the 1992 elections).You mean like when Tabitha Soren ambushed President George H.W. Bush with stupid questions about Iran-Contra?
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:56:28 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: .cnI redruM
MTV....didn't the "M" used to stand for "Music"?
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:56:42 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: MplsSteve
I wish they'd start re-running MTV (and even VH-1) from that period. If you have digital cable, check out VH1 classic. It will take you back (at times). The other problem is, we're getting so old (hee hee) that some of the ghetto slop is starting to get the title of "classic". I must have missed the moment when Pearl Jam become "classic" ??? :)
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:57:18 AM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
To: .cnI redruM
Whens the last time they actually showed a music video? I just watch them on YouTube.
To: DemforBush
>I quit watching MTV after they became a tool for the Moonbat crowd (i.e. during the first Gulf War and the 1992 elections). Haven't looked at it since.<
I remember that - it was 24 hours of "All we are saying is give peace a chance" - literally...
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posted on
08/07/2006 9:57:47 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: AbeKrieger
Soon there will be the "first ever" Hip-Hop hall of fame. And apparently those in NY and LA are arguing over which music genre from the community is "authentic".
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posted on
08/07/2006 10:04:52 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
To: AbeKrieger
You should see the way it promotes the homosexual lifestyle.
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