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Have been trying to watch this after many many months of not bothering, and I've been left with an overwhelming question:
Do they actually play music?
I mean is it me? MTV - Music. TeleVision. M-T-V right?
There used to be Headbangers Ball, Dance Nation, European Top 20, Yo MTV Raps etc etc, ok so I didn't like most of the music on there but at least there were tunes being played.
But looking at it now, it's just wall-to-wall programmes with zero videos.
Jackass/Dirty Sanchez/Room Raiders/Cribs/Newly Weds/Pimp My Ride/Rich Girls etc etc.
It appears to be just programmes about people with records to sell and a product to push.
I even saw an advert that finished with "Less singing, more viewing"
Excuse me? A station that exists (as hinted at by the name) to spew endless videos/adverts for albums you can buy is promoting itself as a station with less music and more programmes about crap?
Eh? What's going on?
Is it that wretched "Branding" thing again, where a company/corporation decides it doesn't actually have to produce anything and instead promotes it's name as something? Like Nike isn't about the manufacturing of shoes, it's now about being seen as actually "about" sports, or Coke spending millions to simply keep it's brand in your head?
Could you explain to me the point of MTV if it doesn't actually play videos? Has it shifted into wanting to be this cool, hip station that you can leave on for everything, instead of watching an hour/two hour specialist show on your preferred musical genre?
Go look at the listings for MTV for the next two days - I would but I don't have a TV Times or similar - and see if there actually are scheduled music slots where they play videos instead of having a couple of cyphers doing nothing except making sure you remember their name and not even the asinine bilge their record company tries to convince you is music.
Go, really, have a look now and report back with what you find.
I don't get it, a music television station without music...*shakes head*
They have programmes about the making of a video, but they don't play the videos themselves.
Retarded, and I bet people lap it up and ask for more - and that makes me sigh a weary sigh as I watch future generations plummet in a freefall to inanity and lust for mindless trivia.
You can buy t-shirts with the MTV logo on the front, did you know that? You can be a billboard and promote this musicless-music station as you go about your life. Hurrah...
Mind you, looking at the absolute toss in the charts it's probably a good thing that station doesn't waste electricity playing their commercials..sorry...videos.
McFly - have you seen those little eunuchs? Man, when you make Busted look like Led Zeppelin, then something's wrong with this picture.
Are kids really that stupid that they like this? Actually, I can forgive kids because they don't have any tastes of their own. That's why Busted/Steps etc have fans that are under-10 but c'mon, 4 squeaky clean moppets bouncing around with Fisher Price guitars and singing about absolutely nothing of consequence...What has happened?
Why did we let it get to this?
We exist in a world of Will Young/Busted/McFly/So Solid Crews - a world where music is drained of soul, passion and heart and instead served up in odourless, tasteless bite-sized sachets of bland nothing.
Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin/The Temptations/Tina Turner/Led Zeppelin/Jimi Hendrix/Adam & The Ants/Wilson Pickett/Sam & Dave/Bill Withers/James Brown/Toots & The Maytalls/King Tubby/The Beatles/Black Sabbath...an endless list that you could add to all night and never repeat yourself.
Music used to be part of the culture, Bob Dylan wrote songs about Ruben Carter for chrissakes.
What do we have now?
MTV - a music television station that doesn't have any music on.
If I could hurry up with my escape pod then I wouldn't have to watch this planet sink into a quagmire of banality and you wouldn't have to read my headwrongs.
Kill these creatures.
Shoot McFly in the face.
Do it, for all our sakes.
Do they actually play music?
I mean is it me? MTV - Music. TeleVision. M-T-V right?
There used to be Headbangers Ball, Dance Nation, European Top 20, Yo MTV Raps etc etc, ok so I didn't like most of the music on there but at least there were tunes being played.
But looking at it now, it's just wall-to-wall programmes with zero videos.
Jackass/Dirty Sanchez/Room Raiders/Cribs/Newly Weds/Pimp My Ride/Rich Girls etc etc.
It appears to be just programmes about people with records to sell and a product to push.
I even saw an advert that finished with "Less singing, more viewing"
Excuse me? A station that exists (as hinted at by the name) to spew endless videos/adverts for albums you can buy is promoting itself as a station with less music and more programmes about crap?
Eh? What's going on?
Is it that wretched "Branding" thing again, where a company/corporation decides it doesn't actually have to produce anything and instead promotes it's name as something? Like Nike isn't about the manufacturing of shoes, it's now about being seen as actually "about" sports, or Coke spending millions to simply keep it's brand in your head?
Could you explain to me the point of MTV if it doesn't actually play videos? Has it shifted into wanting to be this cool, hip station that you can leave on for everything, instead of watching an hour/two hour specialist show on your preferred musical genre?
Go look at the listings for MTV for the next two days - I would but I don't have a TV Times or similar - and see if there actually are scheduled music slots where they play videos instead of having a couple of cyphers doing nothing except making sure you remember their name and not even the asinine bilge their record company tries to convince you is music.
Go, really, have a look now and report back with what you find.
I don't get it, a music television station without music...*shakes head*
They have programmes about the making of a video, but they don't play the videos themselves.
Retarded, and I bet people lap it up and ask for more - and that makes me sigh a weary sigh as I watch future generations plummet in a freefall to inanity and lust for mindless trivia.
You can buy t-shirts with the MTV logo on the front, did you know that? You can be a billboard and promote this musicless-music station as you go about your life. Hurrah...
Mind you, looking at the absolute toss in the charts it's probably a good thing that station doesn't waste electricity playing their commercials..sorry...videos.
McFly - have you seen those little eunuchs? Man, when you make Busted look like Led Zeppelin, then something's wrong with this picture.
Are kids really that stupid that they like this? Actually, I can forgive kids because they don't have any tastes of their own. That's why Busted/Steps etc have fans that are under-10 but c'mon, 4 squeaky clean moppets bouncing around with Fisher Price guitars and singing about absolutely nothing of consequence...What has happened?
Why did we let it get to this?
We exist in a world of Will Young/Busted/McFly/So Solid Crews - a world where music is drained of soul, passion and heart and instead served up in odourless, tasteless bite-sized sachets of bland nothing.
Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin/The Temptations/Tina Turner/Led Zeppelin/Jimi Hendrix/Adam & The Ants/Wilson Pickett/Sam & Dave/Bill Withers/James Brown/Toots & The Maytalls/King Tubby/The Beatles/Black Sabbath...an endless list that you could add to all night and never repeat yourself.
Music used to be part of the culture, Bob Dylan wrote songs about Ruben Carter for chrissakes.
What do we have now?
MTV - a music television station that doesn't have any music on.
If I could hurry up with my escape pod then I wouldn't have to watch this planet sink into a quagmire of banality and you wouldn't have to read my headwrongs.
Kill these creatures.
Shoot McFly in the face.
Do it, for all our sakes.
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Have been trying to watch this after many many months of not bothering, and I've been left with an overwhelming question:
Do they actually play music?
I mean is it me? MTV - Music. TeleVision. M-T-V right?
There used to be Headbangers Ball, Dance Nation, European Top 20, Yo MTV Raps etc etc, ok so I didn't like most of the music on there but at least there were tunes being played.
But looking at it now, it's just wall-to-wall programmes with zero videos.
Jackass/Dirty Sanchez/Room Raiders/Cribs/Newly Weds/Pimp My Ride/Rich Girls etc etc.
It appears to be just programmes about people with records to sell and a product to push.
I even saw an advert that finished with "Less singing, more viewing"
Excuse me? A station that exists (as hinted at by the name) to spew endless videos/adverts for albums you can buy is promoting itself as a station with less music and more programmes about crap?
Eh? What's going on?
Is it that wretched "Branding" thing again, where a company/corporation decides it doesn't actually have to produce anything and instead promotes it's name as something? Like Nike isn't about the manufacturing of shoes, it's now about being seen as actually "about" sports, or Coke spending millions to simply keep it's brand in your head?
Could you explain to me the point of MTV if it doesn't actually play videos? Has it shifted into wanting to be this cool, hip station that you can leave on for everything, instead of watching an hour/two hour specialist show on your preferred musical genre?
Go look at the listings for MTV for the next two days - I would but I don't have a TV Times or similar - and see if there actually are scheduled music slots where they play videos instead of having a couple of cyphers doing nothing except making sure you remember their name and not even the asinine bilge their record company tries to convince you is music.
Go, really, have a look now and report back with what you find.
I don't get it, a music television station without music...*shakes head*
They have programmes about the making of a video, but they don't play the videos themselves.
Retarded, and I bet people lap it up and ask for more - and that makes me sigh a weary sigh as I watch future generations plummet in a freefall to inanity and lust for mindless trivia.
You can buy t-shirts with the MTV logo on the front, did you know that? You can be a billboard and promote this musicless-music station as you go about your life. Hurrah...
Mind you, looking at the absolute toss in the charts it's probably a good thing that station doesn't waste electricity playing their commercials..sorry...videos.
McFly - have you seen those little eunuchs? Man, when you make Busted look like Led Zeppelin, then something's wrong with this picture.
Are kids really that stupid that they like this? Actually, I can forgive kids because they don't have any tastes of their own. That's why Busted/Steps etc have fans that are under-10 but c'mon, 4 squeaky clean moppets bouncing around with Fisher Price guitars and singing about absolutely nothing of consequence...What has happened?
Why did we let it get to this?
We exist in a world of Will Young/Busted/McFly/So Solid Crews - a world where music is drained of soul, passion and heart and instead served up in odourless, tasteless bite-sized sachets of bland nothing.
Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin/The Temptations/Tina Turner/Led Zeppelin/Jimi Hendrix/Adam & The Ants/Wilson Pickett/Sam & Dave/Bill Withers/James Brown/Toots & The Maytalls/King Tubby/The Beatles/Black Sabbath...an endless list that you could add to all night and never repeat yourself.
Music used to be part of the culture, Bob Dylan wrote songs about Ruben Carter for chrissakes.
What do we have now?
MTV - a music television station that doesn't have any music on.
If I could hurry up with my escape pod then I wouldn't have to watch this planet sink into a quagmire of banality and you wouldn't have to read my headwrongs.
Kill these creatures.
Shoot McFly in the face.
Do it, for all our sakes.
Do they actually play music?
I mean is it me? MTV - Music. TeleVision. M-T-V right?
There used to be Headbangers Ball, Dance Nation, European Top 20, Yo MTV Raps etc etc, ok so I didn't like most of the music on there but at least there were tunes being played.
But looking at it now, it's just wall-to-wall programmes with zero videos.
Jackass/Dirty Sanchez/Room Raiders/Cribs/Newly Weds/Pimp My Ride/Rich Girls etc etc.
It appears to be just programmes about people with records to sell and a product to push.
I even saw an advert that finished with "Less singing, more viewing"
Excuse me? A station that exists (as hinted at by the name) to spew endless videos/adverts for albums you can buy is promoting itself as a station with less music and more programmes about crap?
Eh? What's going on?
Is it that wretched "Branding" thing again, where a company/corporation decides it doesn't actually have to produce anything and instead promotes it's name as something? Like Nike isn't about the manufacturing of shoes, it's now about being seen as actually "about" sports, or Coke spending millions to simply keep it's brand in your head?
Could you explain to me the point of MTV if it doesn't actually play videos? Has it shifted into wanting to be this cool, hip station that you can leave on for everything, instead of watching an hour/two hour specialist show on your preferred musical genre?
Go look at the listings for MTV for the next two days - I would but I don't have a TV Times or similar - and see if there actually are scheduled music slots where they play videos instead of having a couple of cyphers doing nothing except making sure you remember their name and not even the asinine bilge their record company tries to convince you is music.
Go, really, have a look now and report back with what you find.
I don't get it, a music television station without music...*shakes head*
They have programmes about the making of a video, but they don't play the videos themselves.
Retarded, and I bet people lap it up and ask for more - and that makes me sigh a weary sigh as I watch future generations plummet in a freefall to inanity and lust for mindless trivia.
You can buy t-shirts with the MTV logo on the front, did you know that? You can be a billboard and promote this musicless-music station as you go about your life. Hurrah...
Mind you, looking at the absolute toss in the charts it's probably a good thing that station doesn't waste electricity playing their commercials..sorry...videos.
McFly - have you seen those little eunuchs? Man, when you make Busted look like Led Zeppelin, then something's wrong with this picture.
Are kids really that stupid that they like this? Actually, I can forgive kids because they don't have any tastes of their own. That's why Busted/Steps etc have fans that are under-10 but c'mon, 4 squeaky clean moppets bouncing around with Fisher Price guitars and singing about absolutely nothing of consequence...What has happened?
Why did we let it get to this?
We exist in a world of Will Young/Busted/McFly/So Solid Crews - a world where music is drained of soul, passion and heart and instead served up in odourless, tasteless bite-sized sachets of bland nothing.
Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin/The Temptations/Tina Turner/Led Zeppelin/Jimi Hendrix/Adam & The Ants/Wilson Pickett/Sam & Dave/Bill Withers/James Brown/Toots & The Maytalls/King Tubby/The Beatles/Black Sabbath...an endless list that you could add to all night and never repeat yourself.
Music used to be part of the culture, Bob Dylan wrote songs about Ruben Carter for chrissakes.
What do we have now?
MTV - a music television station that doesn't have any music on.
If I could hurry up with my escape pod then I wouldn't have to watch this planet sink into a quagmire of banality and you wouldn't have to read my headwrongs.
Kill these creatures.
Shoot McFly in the face.
Do it, for all our sakes.
Watch MTV2
Although ignore it at weekends after 7ish
And even then you get crap.
VH2 ain't bad either, too many adverts.
Although ignore it at weekends after 7ish
And even then you get crap.
VH2 ain't bad either, too many adverts.
Yes McFly should burn, as should all these 'Popular Music' bands, its all trash... Emo all the way!!!!
MTVUK doesn't play any music really, well the occasional Boyzone video but that's about it.
MTV2 and MTV Bass are where the music's at. There's also a few more MTV channels but they're full of crap.
MTV2 and MTV Bass are where the music's at. There's also a few more MTV channels but they're full of crap.
The Headbanger's Ball still appears some nights at 10:00 on MTV2, it's for the most part pretty terrible but occasionally they play some Slayer or something.
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh.
I was soon to do a post about this. Every time I switch it on (purely out of interest), it's some Jessica Simpson bint with the intelligence of a table cloth and her newly wed or something.
What a load of absolute t**s.
I was soon to do a post about this. Every time I switch it on (purely out of interest), it's some Jessica Simpson bint with the intelligence of a table cloth and her newly wed or something.
What a load of absolute t**s.
From what ive seen VH1 is a bit more decent.
I flick through all the music channel for something I like, if there's no music on: change channel. It's as simple as that. MTV2's the only MTV channel I bother with on a day to day basis and even then it's cack next to it's rivals.
You don't need MTV for music, the dozens of other music channels can cater to your every need. At least, that's how they see it.
I see MTV, now, as the 'Home Base', as they've got all their other stations (MTV2, Bass, Dance, Hits) to give you all your other needs.
Peace.
Peace.
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