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20 reviews for MTV
Music Television.
It's like a radio for your TV. Pretty cool, right?
Yes, I know, everyone says that they don't play music videos anymore. The MTV networks mix is ever expanding, so be let's be flexible people, OK? I'm sure if you have to watch 9 straight hours of music videos, there is another MTV channel that you could watch.
What you have to do is come to terms with what MTV is today: the mother of all reality TV invention. I mean do you truly believe that there would be Survivor, The Bachelor, Extreme Makeover, The Amazing Race, Dancing with the Stars etc, if MTV hadn't green lit the original: The Real World.
So they not only pioneered "all music videos all the time" but created a whole new genre of tele.
I'm not saying that you have to love reality TV shows*, or even music videos for that matter, but you have to admit they deserve mad props for ingenuity.
*Perchance you do have a special soft spot for MTV shows....be sure to watch the "dream date to prom" episode of "MADE" in mid June. I promise, it will be enthralling.
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What day did the music die? I must have been out of town.
Yeah I know. Its not for you, Grandpa. Well who is it for then? Even my 11 year old cousins hate it. MTV2 is slightly tolerable but not even on a bet would I watch this channel anymore. Even my personal favorite from back in the day, Headbangers Ball, is oozing with commercials and pseudo-cool VJ'.
At the board meetings, try and find one person not using "product" in their hair. See if one of them has a pair of pants on that cost less than $150.
Complete garbage that teaches our youth how to be phony and uber-feminine before the age of 13.
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Back in the day it was "I want my MTV". Yes we did want it. The videos on all day and night. It was great. There was a mix of music and great themed video shows. Headbangers ball was my fave. Wendy O Williams episode was awesome. RIP. Most of the VJ's were good. Then came the game show. OK the first game show was funny. Ken Ober (?)
was the host, I think. It was great when guests from bands were on sitting in the tacky easy chair getting grilled with questions and videos.
Then you started to go too far. Real World, Road Rules and the list went on. Still at least I could watch my videos at intervals and at night. Now all there is, is CRAP. How many BITCHES do you need to date losers. If a grown man needs a reality show to get a FN piece of A$$, he is a sorry M***F***. Then the Skanky HOE BITCH shows. OM. I hope you check them for rabies first. How embarrassing to be on the S**T. Wait till your kids and grand kids see this S**T when you are old and shrivelled up. Who cares what a loser you are?
WERE ARE THE FN VIDEOS. Oh yeah. The same crappy videos from over indulged artists. Wait not artists. Spoiled brats. Anyone can make a video and put it on an independent web site now days. The same boring people with too much money who drink and drug themselves up with every nickle they get and then they receive an award for it. PLEASE. MTV2 ditto.
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Once upon a time, MTV played lots of music videos on their station. Now it's just a bunch of crappy reality television shows with TERRIBLE scripting and some songs inserted here and there to set up the drama. MTV was sorta okay during the first season of Laguna Beach, but they managed to ruin that too. The Hills is awful. Real World got old quick. They wonder why their ratings suck, but they fail to look at the fact that they make bad television. I don't bother with it anymore.
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You're kidding, right? 12 reviews before this and not a single one star review? Of current, modern day MTV. Allow me the privilege and the honor.
Allow me to flashback for a moment to MTV's glory days:
1) 120 Minutes: Matt Pinfield, fat bald hardcore music nerd, playing killer music videos for two hours and interviewing Beck, Sonic Youth, and many other great artists.
2) Amp: Awesome techno videos that would never get half a second on today's MTV.
3) The Real World: The first season or two were interesting and a pretty cool TV experiment. Not the drama filled moron-ville that it is presently.
4) Beavis and Butt-head: A cautionary tale about letting kids sit around and watch too much TV. They can't accomplish anything worthwhile because they're imbeciles. Mike Judges crowning TV moment.
The list goes on and on. Come up with your own, I'm sure it will rule. I was born in '82. That's why most of mine is 90s-centric.
Today's MTV: Every time I think about it, I get this queasy feeling in my stomach. Like the one that comes right before you vomit. I think if a bomb went off in a Real World house, I would laugh my ass off. I'd feel sort of bad about it, but I would laugh. So would you. Don't deny it.
All Reality TV, All the time. Laguna Beach, which makes me want to punch someone really hard in the face if I watch more than thirty seconds of it. Are teenagers today really that retarded? What is missing from this lineup? Hmmm...what is the name of the channel again?
Fine, they do play videos occasionally. However, they're all by bands that few self-respecting intelligent people would ever admit to liking.
Therefore, I dub thee one star, MTV. And I think that's being pretty generous.
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What the hell happened to you? You went from playing good videos with fun hosts, to being a bunch of sell outs. I hate these damn reality shows. WE GET THE POINT! No one cares about wannabe gangster Guido's, or a spoiled girl's Sweet 16. Music is an art and using the name Music Television while airing these lame, non well thought out shows is just an atrocity. I understand we live in a capitalist county and I'm totally for making profits and expanding. You can still do that by listening to the majority of the people by playing the things they want to see.
MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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While watching a rerun of the latest Gauntlet's final HOO RA episode, I was inspired. Inspired by utter disappointment and mediocrity. So here is my review of the fabulous, trendsetting (both in good and bad ways) basic cable channel.........
I was 5 when the little astronaut guy stuck the MTV flag on the moon for the first time. I wasn't supposed to be up, but from then on, there was no such thing as "bedtime for Maria" on weekend nights. MTV provided the soundtrack to my youth: Michael Jackson, Def Leppard, the Cars, the Police, Pat Benatar and Queen, to (gulp) bubble-gum dance tricks, all the way up to hair metal and the Seattle sound. And all those VJ's: JJ Jackson and Martha Quinn to Downtown Julie Brown and Adam Curry. I think I have old videotapes with all of these people. How could I forget 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball and YO! MTV raps???? MTV also made me way popular in elementary school. Hardly any of my friends had cable yet. And you could always find me surrounded by a group of boys, attracted to me for my music knowledge and taste, and my Sanrio scratch and sniff pencils.
Later on, MTV showed Beavis and Butthead and Daria. The bulk of my high school years, I hate to say. I watched the first season of the Real World with complete awe. The cast was so smart and so cool. However, I never knew it would grow into an empire where the cast gets dumber and dumber every year. So kudos to MTV for being part of the reason people think it's so cool to be a complete idiot meathead drunk. It was the beginning of MTV's reality/unreality fetish, and now we are lucky if we ever get to see a video on the first VIDEO CHANNEL. MTV2, which was meant to be the video branch of MTV, has also been saturated with complete crap. Super Sweet Sixteen, The Hills, Laguna Beach? Same people, different locations, all of them snots. And who lets their parents pick out their boy/girlfriends? Ew.
MTV as it is today gets 1 star. MTV as it was when I was growing up gets 5 stars.
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I had to save my 311th review for the media outlet that introduced me to 311 - my favorite band of all time. It was 1995. I had just come home from school and was about to fix myself something to eat (probably a sandwich). I went into the living room, turned on the TV, and changed the channel to MTV. As I was walking towards the kitchen, I heard an interesting song come on and glanced down at the TV... I had to do a double take because the lead singer (Nick Hexum) with bleached blond hair was super hot. So, I sat down on the couch and watched the entire video, in awe. At that moment, I became a fan. Since then, I've been to numerous shows, have almost all their music, and I still rock out to them every once in awhile. Thanks, MTV.
I don't watch MTV as much anymore. Sometimes, I'll catch an episode of Making the Band or one of their dating shows, but it really doesn't interest me to the point of obsession like it used to. I have MTV2 now, which is suppose to be more like the MTV I knew and loved, but haven't had much time to really check it out.
Oh...and Nick no longer has bleached blond hair - thank goodness!
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I know this is a dead subject anymore, but read a review about MTV today that was a "5 star" and just had to chime in.
5 stars? Pleeeease.
This review was obviously another one of those posts from the man. Someone at MTV trying to save their star ratings. So, I'm countering that with a (sorry I can't go any lower) 1 Star.
People at MTV, your not fooling anyone. Just like your staff you fire after a certain age in an attempt to keep your image, "Youthful", retirement is here. You old bastards at MTV just retire already damn. It's time to call it quits and please just follow suit like all the other former giants of the corporate world. Take the money and run.
No need to go into reasons why. You know, like everyone else with a brain why.
Each year it gets worse and worse and worse It's like nothing really to watch where is the video? Its like tv shows for young teens who don't know better - boo you loose all stars
Best show on MTV.....
goes to....
The Gauntlet.
Everything else is trash...
Why must we watch Tila Tequila, The Hills, etc?! Makes me feel brain dead.
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Why do you build me up (build me up), MTV, baby
Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (worst of all), you cancel Daria
And you hear me yell (hear me yell) "this DVD would sell!!!"
I need you (I need you) to stop releasing crap like
My Super Duper Sweet Sixteeeeen...
So tell me now (tell me now), MTV, where's Daria?????
Oh, MTV, what a love-hate relationship we do have.
You released "Daria," only my absolute favorite cartoon and the most beloved angst-filled teenager, two dimensional or not, to whom my generation relates. Then you yank her away like a ten year old playground bully who will reach his peak at the age of thirteen and then spiral into a pitiful existence of reliving his youthful "accomplishments" -- if yanking away candy from a five year old in pigtails is indeed brag-worthy.
You release this show, this show of utter brilliance, you know of its cult following, yet you have shown NO efforts towards releasing it on DVD, which is a business move that I cannot fathom considering the cultural contributions of some of your current releases like Seasons 2 and 3 of "Laguna Beach" or Season 1 of "Pimp My Ride."
You put out some gems in the film department ("Election" or "Better Luck Tomorrow," anyone???) but then you release "Crossroads" [dead silence] and total utter loathsome drivel like "My Super Sweet Sixteen," which, thanks to you, has increased the demand for diamond tiaras fivefold since its release. What values are we glorifying here?!
The +1 star is for the combination of (1) whoever green-lighted "Daria," (2) giving me the opportunity to be within 3 feet of Ringo Starr, whose name alone, let alone his Beatles membership, makes him pretty damn cool in my eyes, and (3) the glorious heydays of MTV that introduced me to the light-up dance floor of "Billie Jean."
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OK guys, I'm outing myself as an employee at MTV. Well, most of my friends know, so why shouldn't you, right?
Working for the company is great. I'm in the On-Air Promos department alongside some very creative and interesting people. Our main job is getting an audience to tune in to shows like America's Best Dance Crew, which I actually work on (so now you know who produces those commercials.) Also, our current campaign to highlight artists throughout the commercial breaks on MTV is a wonderfully fantastic and amazing experience for all of us and the rest of the company.
As for the programming, hey, it's entertainment people! I like to watch just about all of them, though I will admit "The Real World" may be a bit over. Now I know everyone complains about music videos no longer being aired, though actually some are shown in the early AM hours (I'm talkin' 1-9 AM,) but really, we have a couple of digital channels devoted to JUST music videos, like MTV Hits and MTV Jams (VH-1 also has a few channels, too, like Classic, Soul and Country.) Also, we have some specialty channels like MTV Tr3s and mtvU, which airs a ton of great videos of a variety of artists, not just pop and hip-hop. In fact, you can view a live stream of mtvU online anytime at http://www.mtvu.com/ though I think it may only work with PCs.
And of course you can see pretty much any music video on http://MTV.com, which is nice but sometimes the website just isn't all that. They keep trying, though, so I'll give 'em that.
Overall, I think our channel is in pretty good shape and I can't tell you what a fantastic experience it is to be here. It may not work for some, but it sure feels good to me!
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I've never been here and think MTV is completely retarded as they no longer play music. It's now a bunch of reality television and tribal hooting appealing to their core demographic: morons who buy ringtones.
I do miss the days where they played music videos, but that's in the past.
What I LOVED about MTV was that whenever I exited my office off of 6th Ave, I would get mobbed by cheerleaders, dance squads, and otherwise hot and perky teen girls.
Just me. No one else.
Every single day without fail, different mobs of these girls, in their dance or cheer outfits, would focus in on me. They would run to me and say:
"Oh-mi-gawd! Do you know where TRL is?" *pompomps* *smile* *squeee* *bat eyelashes*
"Why yes I do. If you go over one block.." etc.
"zomg! Thank you so much!!" *SQUEEEE*
I would then go about my business. This happened every day for months and never failed to make me grin like an idiot.
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I used to work in the MTV building and let me tell you, I'm not sure how they have all that room for all those interns. They have millions of them. Millions.
I agree, the TRL crowds are disgustingly terrible. If you're so excited, why don't you see your favorite people in concert? When they are spittin' out music? You know, that thing that made them famous in the first place (at least most of them are music people, some are just celebs).
One thing you have to know about the Viacom building, it has an AMAZING cafeteria. With hilarious grill guys. and a pasta guy who I'm not sure if he's all together. And there's a thing about the entrance which I'm sure if you've worked there, you've noticed.
As for the channel, well the channel. No music videos to be found. And I want to cause serious harm to every family profiled on my super sweet 16.
the only thing worthy, that is part of their youth-focused original programming, is Made, True Life, and Fear when it was on, of the more recent shows in the past 7 years or so.
Made is scripted. And hilariously so. Its so embarrassing. and awful.
True Life actually is quite a serious examination, not quite sure how much of it is organic, but the one about "i'm broke poor" was pretty good.
And the best one I've seen of course, is True Life: I have a Summer Share on the jersey shore. It was HILARIOUS. find it. Watch it. laugh horrifically. that guy is Dom from Entourage. To a tee (wifebeater styley)
Fear was fuckin balls scary. They actually decided to make a bare-bones, simple set up that technically has "objectives" but they do'nt get in the way of some truly creepy settings.
The one thing that prevents it from one star is that it did used to have music videos. and not only that, they produced Beavis and Butthead. Some may balk at that, but its a clever show, that may be an acquired taste. And the computer game based on it was hilarious.
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I hate MTV but I keep watching their crap when I feel like I should be watching something educational on National Geographic or something.
The Real World (ugh)........... The Hills (UGH)........... Road Rules......... and the retarded dating show with the lie detector :(
but I do like "True Life", especially the episode with Kobayashi. It inspired me to pursue my dream as a competitive eater. OK, not really but it showed me that anyone can do it with enough practice and perseverance.
MTV-K has a fountain soda machine for its employees which we abused during a late-night raid.
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I miss Clone High and those edgy animated shorts (not the bumpers/visual station ID). I think you should take the M out. I never catch a video on this station. It would be nice if you also subtitled music videos like in Asia so I actually know the words to a new song if I see it. The Real World should be cancelled because its a tired franchise.
Oh MTV, why do you entertain me so much? Why is your programming full of mindless slop continuing to intrigue me? Should I shoot myself?
Obviously MTV doesn't play music videos anymore because hey, that doesn't make any money and doesn't bring in ratings. Reality TV obviously does because that's all they pretty much show on MTV. Do they have anymore scripted shows on this network? I guess you can call TRL "scripted". They do have writers. I think there are only like 5-10 shows on MTV and they just replay and replay each show until the next week. Genius!!
MTV teaches you that you do not have money and you worthless if you aren't pushing a Bentley or have an extravangant birthday party. But hey it's entertaining. Anyone notice how many fat people are on MTV? Maybe Sharon from Real World London and hmmmm... that one black dude that Abe socked on Road Rules. That's it.... two people. What does that teach us? Yes we're not pretty!!
How the hell do they have a music video award show? The only nominees are the 60 music videos they showed through the entire year.......
Ok I can't front, I still watch MTV for entertainment. I'm 28 and I can see through all their bullshit. I don't know if teens can. All MTV does is show how little you have and how lame your life is.
Best thing about MTV: Vanessa Minillo
Best show on MTV: True Life
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I'm old enough to remember when MTV used to be a really fun channel to watch *gasp* music videos.
What the hell happened? How did MTV get so far away from what they're actually supposed to be about? It's partly our fault. As viewers we do watch these terrible reality shows which in turn generate higher ratings which in turn gets MTV more advertising dollars. But the shows that they do air are terribly insulting to our intelligence. Tila Tequila? Rob & Big? The Real World? Gross. This is not to say that I don't enjoy an episode of "The Hills" every once in a while, but since when was it ok for MTV to air marathons of "America's Next Top Model?"
MTV's programming just reeks of a channel that is struggling to stay relevant. Instead of aiming for the masses, why not go back to airing niche blocks of videos like Headbanger's Ball or 120 Minutes or Yo MTV Raps? They may not get the monster ratings that a reality show might get, but your audience will be grateful.
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The TRL crowds are annoying. Consider this an extension of my annoyance-with-Times-Square review. I give it an extra star because my ex once ran right into Pauly Shore as he was walking in, knocked him over on live TV. He was on the phone with me, and my little bro had MTV on at the time, so it's totally a credible story. It also gives MTV a second star. What can I say, I'm easily amused.
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