So my high school just started up a new myspace type thing called "the bobcat roundup" or www.bobcatroundup.com. Lots of people I know and people I don't know. I am torn between signing up and just avoiding it altogether. I probably won't be going to my high school reunion anyway. I don't know why, but maybe it has to do with my junior year. Maybe. Anyway, on this site they have YouTube videos that they post. A few of them are from the 80's (i.e. The Cure and the Police). Whatever you may think from my opening paragraph, I actually posted this to talk about the death of MTV and videos.
I was quite the insomniac during the summers of my teens. I remember MTV and VH1 being top 2 channels. They were so permanent that even if I changed the channel to 2 and turned it off, the next morning it automatically knew that I needed "MY MTV". Those two channels were on 24/7 for me. I woke up to it, fell asleep to it, had my afternoon chips and salsa to it. It used to be that there wasn't a second that went by when there wasn't a video. It was better than any tv show or movie for me. I love music and this for me was like paradise. Somewhere along the line though it slowly began to turn into crap. I believe it started with TRL. I was able to get used that. I accepted it saying 'ok, top 20 songs, cool videos and an hour or so of screaming retards. I can get through that.' Then there was the Real World. Ok what's going on here. This is now 2 hours along with commercials taking up space for fantastic videos. Then all of a sudden here comes 50 cent and his hos dirtying up the scene. I was down right pissed. Everything I loved about the genius tv station was going to the pitts. After that, TRL stopped playing full videos, only showing about 20 second stints of each video and all of the #1. I was livid. I turned to VH1 for all of my pleasures in music until they started doing the same crap. Celebrity Fit Club, I love the 80's and 90's ( I like the "I loves" by the way) and then . . . UGH. I was over it turning all of my hope towards the radio. Well hope was shot down as soon as I heard the same stupid "MY HO GETS ME DOE" song 50 times in a row. That's not an actual song by the way, just an example. (All rights reserved to those lyrics). What are these people thinking. How frustrating is it when all you want to hear are a few great songs in a row followed by a few different great songs in a row. I just don't get the whole reason behind incessant play of the same song! DUDE, IT GETS OLD WHEN YOUR GRANDMA STARTS TO SING IT!
I gave up on radio and stuck to CD's until I was in an art class 4 years later at and someone had it on Lighting 100. I was hooked. Every song is different and unique; some you even know from back in the day. Then comes along Jack FM. HOLY CRAP. Somebody complained enough and woke up to the horrific realization that music, FANTABULOUS MUSIC, was going extinct. THANK YOU. Comcast even carries MTV all video channels for MTV and VH1 now. It's about time they stopped neglecting the fabulousness and the influence of music and music videos! Then there was that GENIUS idea of iTUNES!!!! I may have had bit of a heart attack at this point. TOTAL AMAZING MUSIC OVERLOAD! Not only can we create our own glorious genre of music but we can download 80% of those videos lost to shitty tv shows like Tela Tequila. (I am so not even going to dignify that with a link)
So thank you Lighting 100, Jack FM, Comcast and iTUNES. Your love of music has saved us music lovers from inevitable painful self inflicted death by cutting off of the eardrums.
I was quite the insomniac during the summers of my teens. I remember MTV and VH1 being top 2 channels. They were so permanent that even if I changed the channel to 2 and turned it off, the next morning it automatically knew that I needed "MY MTV". Those two channels were on 24/7 for me. I woke up to it, fell asleep to it, had my afternoon chips and salsa to it. It used to be that there wasn't a second that went by when there wasn't a video. It was better than any tv show or movie for me. I love music and this for me was like paradise. Somewhere along the line though it slowly began to turn into crap. I believe it started with TRL. I was able to get used that. I accepted it saying 'ok, top 20 songs, cool videos and an hour or so of screaming retards. I can get through that.' Then there was the Real World. Ok what's going on here. This is now 2 hours along with commercials taking up space for fantastic videos. Then all of a sudden here comes 50 cent and his hos dirtying up the scene. I was down right pissed. Everything I loved about the genius tv station was going to the pitts. After that, TRL stopped playing full videos, only showing about 20 second stints of each video and all of the #1. I was livid. I turned to VH1 for all of my pleasures in music until they started doing the same crap. Celebrity Fit Club, I love the 80's and 90's ( I like the "I loves" by the way) and then . . . UGH. I was over it turning all of my hope towards the radio. Well hope was shot down as soon as I heard the same stupid "MY HO GETS ME DOE" song 50 times in a row. That's not an actual song by the way, just an example. (All rights reserved to those lyrics). What are these people thinking. How frustrating is it when all you want to hear are a few great songs in a row followed by a few different great songs in a row. I just don't get the whole reason behind incessant play of the same song! DUDE, IT GETS OLD WHEN YOUR GRANDMA STARTS TO SING IT!
I gave up on radio and stuck to CD's until I was in an art class 4 years later at and someone had it on Lighting 100. I was hooked. Every song is different and unique; some you even know from back in the day. Then comes along Jack FM. HOLY CRAP. Somebody complained enough and woke up to the horrific realization that music, FANTABULOUS MUSIC, was going extinct. THANK YOU. Comcast even carries MTV all video channels for MTV and VH1 now. It's about time they stopped neglecting the fabulousness and the influence of music and music videos! Then there was that GENIUS idea of iTUNES!!!! I may have had bit of a heart attack at this point. TOTAL AMAZING MUSIC OVERLOAD! Not only can we create our own glorious genre of music but we can download 80% of those videos lost to shitty tv shows like Tela Tequila. (I am so not even going to dignify that with a link)
So thank you Lighting 100, Jack FM, Comcast and iTUNES. Your love of music has saved us music lovers from inevitable painful self inflicted death by cutting off of the eardrums.
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