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The death of music television?
cj iwakura
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This topic came to mind a long time ago when I saw the descent of MTV into airing programs that had little to nothing to do with music; around the time MTV2 was formed to actually, well, show music-related content.
So I started watching M2 instead.
Then MTV2 started to air the same non-music related nonsense MTV did.
At that point, I'd mostly given up hope. I really don't watch TV at all, and I haven't regularly watched TV since back when M2 started turning away from music also.
Though every once in a while, I'll flip through the music channels to attempt to keep up with some kind of new musical content.
Then I noticed VH1 was going down the same road, probably thanks to the success of all that "I Love The [insert cultural pasttime]" stuff.
When I started watching TV again over the course of the past few weeks(still in extremely small doses, as most everything seems to be a waste of time), I notice that the channel that I thought was the last surviving music channel, of all things, BET, is showing hours upon hours of reality nonsense('Hell Date', which appears to be the only show they have).
Is music television dead? Don't any of these channels remember that they used to be about, well, music?
Maybe it's a moot point in the era of YouTube and what not, but I prefer seeing the new work of artists' get televised here and there, especially since I'm more likely to notice it.
An alternate topic related to this is reality programs' domination of television.
This issue began well before the reality TV craze, I think, but it sure isn't helping the problem.
So I started watching M2 instead.
Then MTV2 started to air the same non-music related nonsense MTV did.
At that point, I'd mostly given up hope. I really don't watch TV at all, and I haven't regularly watched TV since back when M2 started turning away from music also.
Though every once in a while, I'll flip through the music channels to attempt to keep up with some kind of new musical content.
Then I noticed VH1 was going down the same road, probably thanks to the success of all that "I Love The [insert cultural pasttime]" stuff.
When I started watching TV again over the course of the past few weeks(still in extremely small doses, as most everything seems to be a waste of time), I notice that the channel that I thought was the last surviving music channel, of all things, BET, is showing hours upon hours of reality nonsense('Hell Date', which appears to be the only show they have).
Is music television dead? Don't any of these channels remember that they used to be about, well, music?
Maybe it's a moot point in the era of YouTube and what not, but I prefer seeing the new work of artists' get televised here and there, especially since I'm more likely to notice it.
An alternate topic related to this is reality programs' domination of television.
This issue began well before the reality TV craze, I think, but it sure isn't helping the problem.
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I feel like there are still some music tv channels though. There's one called "The Tube" or something like that. But I don't think they're particularly in demand when you can find what you want to watch, with no commercials, on the internet.
For most of these reality shows, if they don't have a script, they have editing and retakes to get the show to turn out how they want.
Example: a girl from America's Next Top Model reported that they would film the girls reacting to Tyra Banks showing up at their house multiple times if their reaction the first time wasn't loud/screamy enough. Like literally, "c'mon ladies that wasn't good enough, let's do it again."
But I digress.
MTVU is alright but they play college indie crap all the time, not a lot of variety after a while.
Also: apparently music videos just don't generate enough money these days. Or at least, not as much as retarded reality shows.
Even MuchMusic has gone down the shitter. And they were actually good years and years after MTV stopped showing music videos.
That being said, didn't music television kill music? Its death couldn't be a bad thing.
..what about the internet?
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MuchMusic has basically turned itself into Teen Celebrity News & Style. I think there was even a show called the "IT LIST" for a while, which was a list of the all the fun products that boys and girls should buy that week.
Those where the good/bad old days. When instead of real programing you had to watch and hope that the next video was from a band you actually liked, instead of the samme crap over and over again. the current reality format is an improvement really. Can you stand waiting half an hour of teenybopper crap for your video to come on ONCE?
Plus the reality shows are a better investment for MTV than videos. Seeing as they don't own the music videos, but do own shows like the Osbornes/Newlyweds/Real World and can sell them around the world for straight cash.
Beside they invented the genre to begin with, what is Survivor/Big Brother but a diffrent version of The Real World?
Pretty fucking sad really. Well, at least the competent people they used to have have all left.
Yeah. All the new people they hired to replace the old ones are like soulless automatons or something. Might be due to them having to act all excited about playing the crap music they put on air these days.
VJ: "OMG, it's the new Avril song!!!" <slowly dies inside>
This needs to be recorded.
And then posted on YouTube.
Here we get latin music video channels and they still play music videos
I really find MTV for years to be pretentious and quite annoying like I care about what's in fashion
Unless it's some contrived music award show I doubt I'm gonna see actual music on the channel anymore.
Watch late at night. There isn't that much variety, but they do, in fact, show music videos in the wee hours of the morning.
Edit: It appears as if Celery has answered my question.
I think I tried that once. Nothing but crappy dating shows were on. Let me tell you, we can start a whole new thread on how crappy the one liners are in those shows.
Maybe once I get off a day during the week I will check it out at like 1-2pm. Do they even show TRL anymore?