MTV---Rembember when it was cool?

[GrayLinnorm]

Well, they announced the nominations for the MTV Video Awards today. If you don't recognize any of them, don't feel too bad. Why does MTV even bother to have video awards when they don't play videos anymore? These complaints have been going on for over 10 years, but the situation has only gotten worse! And MTV2, the station they launched because MTV doesn't play videos anymore, doesn't play videos anymore either --- so what's the point? Doesn't MTV know that reality is on its way out? Their ratings have gone down, but they're still going to put on even more crappy reality shows! When is MTV going to get someone in charge of their programming who realizes that 1) the M in MTV is supposed to stand for Music 2) MTV does not need to do a Real World marathon every day!
They also gave two nominations to the ridiculous Mariah Carey, who has never made a decent video in her life! Remember when MTV was cool?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Well, no.

Always been lame in my eyes, but I'm pretty young (20).

VH1 gets better ratings here, I've heard.

 

[Tetsubo]

I can remember when MTV didn't exist. When HBO only ran shows for a few hours a day. But I'm old...

I do wish that MTV and MTV2 would play more and a greater variety of videos. While I realize that rap and hip hop are legitimate musical forms, I tire of seeing nothing but those genres on the channels.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

While I realize that rap and hip hop...

Hell, I would be happy to see a rap or hip hop video all the way through on MTV, MTV2 or VH1. The music-video channels hardly ever play music videos any more, and when they do play then they chop off one end or the other.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Unless it's highly exaggerated, I suspect the videos-vs.-other-stuff rate is a bit more in
favour of the videos on MTV Europe than on the US version. It has a lot of non video
stuff, but it seems to me to be fairly largely just videos and discussion thereof, still.

But I don't watch much MTV, I only surf through it every now and then and see snippets.

As for VH1, I don't remember ever seeing non-video related shows other than the 'Behind
the Music' specials.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

*I* remember when MTV was cool... and I miss it so. I got my own TV around age 6... and from that time until I graduated high school, MTV was the constant back-drop. It was *always* on.

I loved the sketch shows. I loved Matt Pinfield. I loved MTV's Amp. I loved Cartoon Sushi (one of my favorite shows of all time). Hell - I even loved Siffle and Ollie (spelling?).

But - with every passing year - MTV becomes more and more intolerable. We get VH1 classics which has excellent videos from the 80's and MTV Hits - both of which show videos 24/7... I'll tune in every now and again... but it'll never be the same.

Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Bjork, and so many, many others - I miss you, I miss your videos.

I want my MTV.

 

[Hijinks]

I used to get up an hour early every morning when I was in high school, just to watch the top 10 video countdown on MTV. I remember when Def Leppard's "Love Bites" was #1 for like 9 weeks in a row or some other ridiculous time frame.

They also gave two nominations to the ridiculous Mariah Carey, who has never made a decent video in her life!

She has big breasteses. That be why. She has an admirable vocal range but her style sucks.

 

[Dagger75]

Glad I have digital cable. It has music channels that play nithing but music, no videos just the music.

MTV was cool way back in the 80's. They had nothing but music videos and then had a game show called Remote Control. It sucked after that.

 

[Crothian]

MTV hasn't been cool in well over a decade. I haven't watched it in quitea while and frankly I don't miss it.

 

[KenM]

I'm so old, I remember when MTV accually played music videos.