Sunday Sep 23, 2007

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filmjedi is a crybaby

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growing up in the 90's versus being 27 in 2007.

I remember being about 12 or 13 years old. turning on the mtv top 20, and watching every video religiously. It was a great experience, a lot of fun to watch. it was, dare i say it, entertaining?

i remember watching videos by nirvana, pearl jam, alice in chains, soundgarden, all of those, great bands. (and a lot of bands that didnt make it, remember the spin doctors?)

I remember the great rock and roll documentaries they made. I remember tabitha soren covering the 1992 election on mtv news. i remember, they tried to make a news outlet for young people. I remember wanting to be there, with my ripped up jeans and flannel.

I remember seeing women, girls, go ga ga for eddie vedder, christ cornell. I remember that was the style.

I woke up the other day, in september 2007. I plugged my tv back into the cable, and it's all crap. MTV is bullshit, and it kind of always has been.

I will say that mtv has had a huge contribution to youth culture. But now, it tries to create it. I can honestly say that I learned everything I pretty much know abotu sex and relationships from 2 places. my mom and dad, and mtv.

I learned about aids on mtv, and contraception, and how important that is. They urged the young to get out and vote, held rallies, and really contributed a LOT to bill clinton's election. They had MTV debates, that werent a joke. I learned a lot.

today. its the opposite. They have forgotten about all of that, and went out to make a buck. Blame viacomm, blame whoever.

my point in all of this is, is that music is really important. and people arent hearing good music. you have to find it.

mtv did a lot of good for me, but its different now. people are different now. they'd rather watch my super sweet 16, than listen to some soundgarden.

maybe i really have gotten "older"






So here is the world the way I see it.

MTV has only changed on account of the people watching it.

When the youth of America was interested in politics, sex, crime, and an alternative form of news MTV proudly provided it. but what next, generation X grew up and we went online. shit the whole world went online. why listen to a corporation like MTV anymore for politics, sex, crime, and an alternative form of news when we have the fucking internet.

MTV needed to have mindless reality TV bullshit to compete with my being able to see a dude get killed in a moshpit on youtube.

Why would you listen to Kurt "the dinosaur" loader "reporting" about Britney Spears' breakdown when the whole thing was fucking live on TMZ.com

Also I know its not fashionable to mention nowadays but not all of us are liberals or conservative and we don't all want to watch news thats so obviously slanted in one direction or the other. Why would anyone for that matter when you could read Digg for hours on end.

Music changed as well. As it does every decade since the 1940's. What happened was that in the late 90's the music doesnt matter anymore. The blame is easy to point Bill Clinton and Metallica. Bill cause her made this country prosper, no teen angst = no youth counter culture. If the kids aren't pissed off at the adults the music suffers thats why no one wants to listen to Soundgarden with you anymore.

Which brings me to Metallica, suing your fans is committing commercial suicide. this is fact. Unfortunately Lars and the boys used a nuclear bomb to kill themselves and the fallout drove real music fans underground where we don't need to pay for music anymore.

The kids suck now, their music, their clothes, their attitude how is MTV gonna sell a product like Music to a generation who doesn't pay for their entertainment anymore? They can't! so they target younger audiences they air what is popular for the tweeners (12 to 16 year olds) to force parents to buy it for the little shits.

In summery. MTV was never meant to be a source for education and information for the youth of America, and they blew what little hold they had on the minds of us about the same time Kurt Cobain blew what little mind he had a hold of on a wall.



VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
thefreak:
Well said. Many good points were made.

Halo 3!!!

-TM
freud:
I'm so guilty of watching all that reality shit.. eeek

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