i want my (real) MTV
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 at 04:49PM
Yesterday I watched MTV. It was the first time in some time that I had actually sat down and casually watched it. That is, I wasn’t there to catch the new episode of Run’s House or to laugh at the two people I hate more than anyone in the world — Heidi and Spencer, of course. I was just there to casually browse. You know, to be lazy and enjoy some quality television. Shock. Awe. Confusion. To my surprise, there wasn’t any quality television. I mean none. It was things like the most nonathletic people you’ve ever seen being “made” into some pseudo (and still horrible) soccer players. It was people who were on The Real World before I went through puberty. They’re 45 now, but still think they’re 19 and drink Vodka by the handles. They still think they’re celebrities (as if they ever were) and this is mildly depressing.
We all knew that Music Television abandoned actual music many years ago. Where we use to sit around and watch videos all day, we now get marathons of Made as a replacement. I wonder who made this executive decision. I can here them now: “Okay, I know we’re called music television, but I think we’re going to abandon those music video things that made us so popular and just play marathons of My Super Sweet 16 and other sub-par reality shows.” Can you hear the meeting where this was announced? Cricket, cricket, cricket…
But, it’s not really the loss of videos that upsets me most. Sure, I miss 120 Minutes, but I can find videos other places. What upsets me, ahem, what hurts me. What pains me most is that the MTV I first fell in love with in the 90s no longer exist. It’s dead and it’s been replaced with something completely different, but called the same thing.
Need I remind you of how great MTV Spring Break use to be? We had Singled Out and that show where random people just danced. What about the cartoons? We had the classic Beavis and Butt-head and, the always witty, Daria. There was the Sketch comedy from The State and there was The Real World, when it use to be good and before it turned into a drunken bru ha ha of frat boys, alcoholism, and scandalous girls. What about Rock’N Jock Baseball? I know we all miss those. Even the advertisements changed. They use to be drippy, crazy and somewhat psychedelic, but also completely awesome and true to the brand. Now they’re just blah.
This isn’t all to say that MTV is completely lame now, I’m not saying that at all. It’s just that it’s different now and in no way reminiscent to the MTV I first knew. I highly doubt that my situation is unique. So, what I’ve done is create a list to help everyone get their (real) MTV fix.
I want my (real) MTV.
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