MTV Tribute... I am confused....

[Merelan]

I just read this. Well, color me confused. They play videos that advocate sex, violence and drugs and this is suppose to make it all better?

MTV is launching a yearlong public service campaign to inform viewers about discrimination, starting with a movie detailing the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. Anatomy of a Hate Crime airs Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m., and documents the different sides of the story behind the vicious attack on Shepard.
The network will break from its regular programming after the Shepard movie, to air a continuous, commercial-free list of victims' names. For 17 hours names of hundreds of victims will scroll on the screen with details about their abuse.
“It is shocking in 2001 that hate crimes still happen on a daily basis. And yet while 90 percent of [MTV] viewers overwhelmingly recognize that discrimination is a serious problem facing our country today, fewer than 5 percent will acknowledge their own bias against people who are different from them,” said Brian Graden, president of programming at MTV.
The campaign is also prompted in part by MTV’s own corporate soul-searching over its role in the rise of Eminem. He has been criticized for his profane anti-gay lyrics, while topping the charts and earning multiple Grammy nominations.


Okay, it is nice of them to try, but what the fuck. Watch an Eminem video that says to blow them away and beat your wife, and then say.... Don't kill each other...

I am either missing something, or I need a drink. Why do I feel this is a ploy for more viewers?

 

[Purple Haze]

I went out for a while by myself one nightand found a barstool in front of a big screen TV, sipped beer and watched a couple of guys in strange costumes taking shots and throwing up on eachother, over and over and over. I was also quite surprised that I was the only person in the bar even paying attention. I asked the bartender, as he handed me my second round, what kind of sattelite system they have, I haven't seen anything like this on mine, he casually said "Oh that's just MTV" and walked away.

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I have to conclude that today's kids are exposed to a lot of stuff, and it's hard to keep their interest. And while MTV was the coolest thing around when it first came out, it has to sleep in the bed it made. That means dumbing down to the lowest common denominator. That means shock value sells. Do you think the execs at MTV really give a shit about the welfare of today's teens? They'd like you to think so.

After years of reading and hearing all the controversy surrounding an "artist" called Marilyn Manson, I finally got to see his act on MTV, New Year's Eve. While the energy was high, the quality was a bunch of shit. I still don't get it. Alice Cooper played the same game in the early seventies, but the difference is that Alice Cooper makes good music, you had to be able to do that before they let you make records. I'm not sure that matters much anymore, or maybe I'm just old.

Now where the hell did I put my teeth?

 

[Merelan]

Wait, you are saying they don't really care about our youths? I cannot believe it, they say they do, so they must.

Did ya know that Eminem's wife, ex, cited his lyrics against him in the divorce proceedings? His own Mother has filed against him too. Not sure if that's to stop him or for the money, but it says something I don't think is very good.
Don't mean to keep using him as an example. Just read that and it fit.

 

[GuyJD]

LET'S NOT JUST BASH EMINEM!!!

Let's face it people. We're not in the 80's anymore. Today, it's Eminem talking about beating his wife and ignorant shit like that. In the 90's, it was hip-hop groups like NWA and singing about killing cops and using the "N" word only spelled with an "A" in place of "ER". Then in the mid-80's, Prince talked about a woman "mastubating with a magazine" and then, as if asking for forgiveness, recite a prayer on the same album when it is played backwards.
The days of "Baby Love" and "I Got You Babe" is history. As I see it, thank God for Jazz music.

 

[TonyG]

Originally posted by Merelan
I just read this. Well, color me confused. They play videos that advocate sex, violence and drugs and this is suppose to make it all better?

MTV is launching a yearlong public service campaign to inform viewers about discrimination, starting with a movie detailing the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. Anatomy of a Hate Crime airs Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m., and documents the different sides of the story behind the vicious attack on Shepard.
The network will break from its regular programming after the Shepard movie, to air a continuous, commercial-free list of victims' names. For 17 hours names of hundreds of victims will scroll on the screen with details about their abuse.

...I am either missing something, or I need a drink. Why do I feel this is a ploy for more viewers?

It will be interesting to see what companies have sponsored the 17 hours. Just because it is commercial free does not mean the sponsors won't get in their plugs. Yes, I feel it is a ploy.

 

[Dillinger]

Purple Haze - I've been trying to point out the same comparison to people for a while now - vis a vis Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper. Alice did it all years ago and did it better AND made great music.

 

[Jeff726]

MTV fucking sucks nowadays. Nothing but videos from those fruitcakes Nsync or another stupid shit "choose or lose" special. They have overstepped their boundaries. MTV is not what the letters stand for anymore. I am sick of it. Tom Green was one thing, but all this other crap like "Real World"? More like Real Horseshit.