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- MTV. Stands for "Music Television." Holds an annual music video awards show. Yet doesn't actually show music videos or music related programming, preferring instead to air "reality" shows about self-absorbed idiots. You can see how I'd have a problem here.
- Yes yes, but picking on MTV's Network Decay these days is like beating a horse that's been dead for so long that its bones have turned to dust. MTV premiered in 1979, and its decay was in full swing by 1994. The channel has been known for not playing music videos for longer than it was in the first place. It's been burned to the ground, the ashes buried in sand, and its fields sown with salt so that nothing may ever grow there again.
- But for most of the '90s, MTV still showed a lot of videos. They were just interspersed with other shows. It wasn't until the early '00s that the videos and scripted shows started to disappear and be replaced by mountains of reality bullshit.
- Yes yes, but picking on MTV's Network Decay these days is like beating a horse that's been dead for so long that its bones have turned to dust. MTV premiered in 1979, and its decay was in full swing by 1994. The channel has been known for not playing music videos for longer than it was in the first place. It's been burned to the ground, the ashes buried in sand, and its fields sown with salt so that nothing may ever grow there again.
- Why in the hell do people blame Beavis and Butthead for the Network Decay? If anything, The Real World should be blamed. Beavis and Butthead had the music video segments, true to the channel's name, and I'm sure The Real World spawned all the other shows that plague the channel today.
- Don't you mean The Real World spawned all the other shows that plague every channel today? The Real World, produced in a cheaply rented apartment, with low paid actors, and a small production staff that gets paid for producing, but also writes. Basically, very cheaply produced drek that gets viewers, so of course everyone has taken up the formula, and now almost every cable channel is consumed with nothing but "reality" TV. And even the main broadcast channels want to add at least 3 "reality" shows into their lineup.
- Why did they cut off a bit of the M when they redid the logo? They could have easily just axed the "Music Television" part at the bottom. Now the M looks too short.
- Well, it does make perfect sense that they'd take out part of the "M(usic)" in "MTV"...
- MTV officially has rescinded its "Music Television" moniker with the launch of the new logo, so it must be their way of saying that they don't care that they've changed.
- Yes, I understand why the "Music Television" part is gone, but what I'm talking about is how the M itself has a bit of the bottom cut off. Look at the classic logo, and compare it with the current one, and you'll see what I mean; the M is slightly, but noticeably shorter than it was before. Why did they do that, rather than just cropping out the "Music Television" part?
- It's just a stylistic choice, they thought it was more visually appealing for one reason or another.
- Yes, I understand why the "Music Television" part is gone, but what I'm talking about is how the M itself has a bit of the bottom cut off. Look at the classic logo, and compare it with the current one, and you'll see what I mean; the M is slightly, but noticeably shorter than it was before. Why did they do that, rather than just cropping out the "Music Television" part?
- I kinda disagree with this:
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Thanks to MTV, music went from being a primarily audial medium to a visual one, making the image and appearance of musicians just as important — if not more so — than their actual musicianship. |
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- Yeah, 'cos David Bowie totally looked like an androgynous alien because it helped him make better music.
- He made different music when he looked like an androgynous alien than he did at other points in his career. His appearance did matter.
- Back to MTV (channel)