MTV party turns ugly

NY Daily News ^ | 26 June 2003 | TRACY CONNOR

[weegee]

I know that MTV covers hip hop music as well as all of the flavors of rock music but does BET cover rock music? All I ever saw musically there was rap.

There are rock bands with black performers. MTV seems to ignore this as well.

I hear that MTV added hip hop to the mix because they were accused of racism. I hear that no black artists appeared on MTV until Michael Jackson. What of Prince and Little Red Corvette and 1999? What of Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue? What of Musical Youth, Pass the Doochie(sp?)? There were other examples of a diversified playlist.

[weegee]

Beavis & Butthead showed (excerpts) of better videos than MTV ever did. It was a substantial part of their show. I hear that the B&B DVDs (and videotapes) omit all of the music video footage.

That's like selling episodes of the Monkees without the 2 songs they sang.

[berserker]

A drunken mtv hip-hop party turning into a melee, hmmmm.......

I guess the M-TV connection made this incident news. Fights at nightclubs in Texas don't even get reported unless someone gets killed.

[weegee]

I think that Canada's Much Music is supposed to fit that bill. They do some music related reporting (I don't know how much of the programming it makes up).

I do know that I've seen their camera crews at SXSW in Austin and at the Las Vegas Grind. MTV has never been at any event I've been to.

[weegee]

See the documentary The Devil's Playground. It covers the point in young Amish followers' lives when they are allowed to cut loose.

They emerge into the "English" world with no background on popular culture or the diversity of music available. They plug into the top 10 trends and go wild.

Needless to say, one of the kids that opens up to them becomes a gansta playa selling meth.

[Lee'sGhost]

I guess we'll have to wait for Time-Warner to pick it up.

Yeah, right.

[weegee]

I think that Much Music is slowly appearing on some dish tv systems.

Viacom owns MTV and a major block of Warner Cable programming (as well as tv syndicated programming). They also own a large number of radio stations (I think that they are the second highest player behind Clear Channel).

[wardaddy]

There was a thread this week about an Amish guy in Ohio busted with a considerable amount of crank.

[A CA Guy]

Lawsuits against MTV...

That ought to convert a little conservatism their way!

[weegee]

Fights at nightclubs in Texas don't even get reported unless someone gets killed.

Right, but then there are enough club fights that end with a shooting or knifing that there is almost always something for the news in Houston. If it bleeds, it leads.

[skeeter]

Well, I've gone a few rounds with these hombres as well.

[radiohead]

dang - beat me to it!

[Cooter]

Hip-Hop rules my butt.

According to the Supreme Court, whatever you and Hip-Hop do in the privacy of your bedroom is A-OK.

;^)

[HIDEK6]

What of Prince and Little Red Corvette and 1999? What of Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue? What of Musical Youth, Pass the Doochie(sp?)?

Yeah!

And Al Jolson, too!

[wordsofearnest]

Don't forget your sarcasm .

[radiohead]

<There is no place for rock music on TV anymore. MTV hates rock. It is too white and they won't play it (except for maybe briefly during the middle of the night).

MTV glamorizes and crams this gangsta-thug music down kids throats and then wonders why their parties turn violent.

you have that right! i'm a little out of the demographic, but i love rock music. i don't know where you can see it anymore, surely not on mtv.

btw - strange how i never saw a fight break out when we partied listening to led zepplin or tull. (ok, we were too stoned to fight, maybe there's a lessson there...) : )

[Lee'sGhost]

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

[weegee]

While looking for a past MTV thread, I stumbled across this one:

Breaking *** Fellow Freeper SirGawain's Music Video Available!*** Makes top 10 on MTV! Congrats!

Is this an example of the videos FReepers want to see on MTV?

[weegee]

Things could've gone worse, much worse for everyone involved. I couldn't find the thread where the girls were sprayed with fecal matter by some squatting men on some MTV beach party contest (some sort of 30 second gong show). The girls sued MTV.

[weegee]

And Al Jolson, too!

So gold studded teeth on big pimpin' muthas isn't a stereotype that MTV is now promoting?