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Submitted by koyaan on Wed, 02/14/2007 - 5:45pm.

Ladies and Gentlemen, TRL has left the building.

Long live MTV.

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MTV Blows. Now they blow more.

Submitted by Critter on Thu, 02/15/2007 - 9:54am.

Actually, to say MTV blows is not exactly breaking news. I remember when MTV played music. Of course, I also remember when record stores sold records, so there you go.

I guess we would have to say that MTV was a worthwhile experiment, and that it has failed.

Now, it is likely that someone will point out to me that MTV is hardly a failure, and I would expect that Viacom's balance sheet would demonstrate this to be a true statement in the strictest business logic, because I cannot believe that it doesn't turn a profit. It's not public broadcasting, after all.

It is, however, no longer the experiment that it was when it started. That experiment failed. That experiment is now over, and the apparatus that was built to carry out the experiment has been re-purposed into just another TV channel. MTV remains MTV in name only.

Stupid. Inane. Vapid. Mind-rot. Stench. Pabulum.
(Extra points if anyone knows what film that came from)

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DRM, Eggs, Sausage and DRM 'asn't got that much DRM in it....

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What's the "M" stand for anyway?

Submitted by koyaan on Thu, 02/15/2007 - 10:36pm.

I think that's true for the most part. Although I don't think it's the case of a failed experiment, but rather a great example of the downside of capitalism. Lets face it, to make money they were tricking people. "We've been this amazingly cool thing for so long now, and so if we say something is cool it totally is!" They were actually able to say that and mean it for the first 15 years.

Until untalented people, marketing crappy untalented music, figured out they could make a killing based on abusing that principal. "Hrmm, if we PAY THEM to say something's cool, it totally will be!" No. It wasn't cool. In fact IT REALLY FUCKING SUCKED, and possibly had a lot to do with the churning out of EVEN WORSE CRAP over the past decade. But the kids watching didn't know any better, they were kids.

But you can only fool kids for so long- eventually they grow up and figure out they've been ripped off and lied to. They realized that the person requesting the 'hottest new track' by some unknown 'hot new artist' was actually planted there by the label, or was a guy that works on the 8th floor. I hope the payola checks were worth every penny.

It should however be noted that most of the people who received said checks have recently found themselves unemployed. Perhaps it can only change for the better now... Or so one would hope...

Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.

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Back to DK.

Submitted by Critter on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 4:26pm.

Yep, and that brings us back around to DK....

"Tin-eared, graph paper brained
Accountants, instead of music fans
Call all the shot at giant record companies now,
The lowest common denominator rules.

Forget honest; forget creativity.
The dumbest buys the mostest, that's the name of the game.
But sales are slumping and no-one will say why....
Couldn't be you put out one too many lousy records!"

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DRM, Eggs, Sausage and DRM 'asn't got that much DRM in it....

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Amen.

Submitted by koyaan on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 5:15pm.

Well said.

Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.

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Proper citation

Submitted by Critter on Sun, 02/18/2007 - 3:10pm.

"Well said."

Thanks.

I should probably give a proper citation of the quote.... It's from the Dead Kennedys' song, MTV Get Off The Air!.
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Video confused the radio star

Submitted by fongaboo on Thu, 02/15/2007 - 9:52am.

I always wondered why I got Trevor Horn and Trevor Dunn mixed up.

One founded the Buggles and the other is in Mr. Bungle.

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