MTV - In Memoriam

Oh MTV,
Sixteen years ago, you blessed the preteen to twenty-somethings demographic with a new and inspired idea. Combine our loves - music and television. Suddenly we had the rockingest channel this side of basic cable, with hits like MTV Unplugged and Headbanger's Ball. In the midst of all, however, we became tempted by the dark side of reality tv - you got us addicted to hits like Real World and Road Rules. Amid a blur of Spring Break specials and episodes of MTV jams, I realized something very troubling: Music Television had lost the music. THe only time you saw even part of a music video was on total request live, and I don't trust the general American public to pick ten videos I actually give a crap about. Of course you didn't really think we were that stupid... so you sated us rockers with MTV 2 - a channel proposed to make up for the falling numbers of videos on the main network. But too soon again did you rip that from our hands and replace music with MTV cribs and Yo Momma. And so, MTV, it is now with great sadness that I must admit
you are dead to me.
Consider this to my memorial to what was once a great network - in hopes that some day, when the idiots who watch reality tv realize that what they're watching is terrible, MTV might return to it's former glory, and shower us with bountiful music videos.

Or seriously, can you at least give us a REAL channel devoted just to videos? I promise we'll watch. Or at least I will - and as a young twenty-something, I AM YOUR DEMOGRAPHIC!


As a funny side note, before I went back and edited this post, I started three sentences in a row with the word "suddenly" as follows:
Suddenly we had the rockingest channel this side of basic cable, with hits like MTV Unplugged and Headbanger's Ball. Suddenly, we became tempted by the dark side of reality tv - you got us addicted to hits like Real World and Road Rules. Suddenly, in a blur of Spring Break specials and episodes of MTV jams, I realized something very troubling: Music Television had lost the music.

Ah, the subtle nuance of unedited blogging...