MTV music.

[Jimmy Carter wuwu]

Originally Posted by PerritoBites

"MTV music" is an oxymoron.

This, and why even bother wasting your time on the channel? I can guess this years lineup of shows. The Hills, Real world 500, Real world offspring shows, Something to do with P Diddy, Something to do with the jackass squad, and TRL, and countless dating genre shows.

[Thunderbane]

Originally Posted by Erumaron

OT but I once read a quote from Hilary Duff who said she credits The Cure for influenicing her on one of her albums. That's great and all becasue at least she has good taste but none of her audience probaly even knows who the fuck they are.

Yeah... having heard "Lovesong" & "Pictures of You" would probably lead Duff to believe she's influenced by the Cure. Something in me finds it hard to believe she's heard every one of the Cure's albums from the 80s... Pornography anybody?

Me, I think Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is my favorite. And since this is an MTV thread, remember when they did their special show about The Cure being awesome or something? Well this was the highlight:



deftones 4 life.

[Citten]

I haven't turned on MTV in about 2 years or so. At around 19 I just started feeling I was too old for the shows and music style in general.

[Surlok TP]

Originally Posted by Fog

I love music, I mean I really care about it a fair amount, but I'm 21, and I just barely know who Lou Reed/VU and Iggy and the Stooges are. Why does it matter? I don't see why musical history needs to be part of music appreciation.

Now, all the people you're talking about don't even love music. They are just fond of listening to some music once in a while to go with the rest of their life. Why on God's green earth would they care about the thrice-removed forty-year-old forebears of some music they happen to listen to this week? Why should they? I suspect they have better things to do.

EDIT: Since when does "namedropping The Cure" make you sound sophisticated?

It's more of an if you like these guys then maybe you should check out this band or that band or whatever because they are heavily influenced by them. It used to sort of be a way for bands that made it big to pay back all the bands that they loved growing up.

Nirvana did this, Kurt's influences were all across the board and it launched or at least exposed a ton of bands ot the masses. The unplugged thing was huge for the MEatpuppets, then all of his Pixies talk and the MElvins. Some of these bands were known but having say yeah lots of what I write reflects my interests in these bands makes people interested.

The Misfits were a fairly under ground band that found a ton of new fans from bands like Metallica,things like that.


Thing is a lot of people are happy enough to just listen to music and not as interested in where it came from. So some guy listens to Last Caress by Metallica and thinks yeah cool, rad song. If he dug a little deeper he might discover the Misfits and open up a whole new world of music for himself, or not , depends.

I think for people that are fans of the band that was the influence they just want to see the band given it's due. So they get irritated when people don't recognize what they are listening to . A lot of time the credit for a great riff or a hook goes to the person sampling it or ripping it off and it's not really fair. People don't like to see people with no talent become successful on the backs of others.

That's basicaly the world of pop. The people that are puppets. Dance like this,sing like this, they don't write their lyrics or their music they are just a vessel for the army of people that did it in the interests of making money, and if they can exploit they success of popular bands from the past to further that agenda they will. MTV feeds that more than any other form of media since all the Vessels are , are pretty faces.

[SalaciousTunare]

My first thought when seeing the thread title was, "What does MTV have to do with music?"