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Angie

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Thanks so much to @drlove for today’s second topic!

MTV News is no more. This is one in decades of changes for the net work, which originated as a music channel, if you can believe it at this point. What are your favorite MTV moments? Or most memorable? Are you a big Pauly Shore fan? Did you watch Spring Break with Eric Nies religiously?


My most memorable is cheating, but I have the advantage of being first. I remember being at a hotel for a school event when Kurt Loder broke the news of Kurt Cobain‘s passing. That was a huge shock, I was a freshman or so - so old enough to be a huge Nirvana fan, but too young to understand addiction fully.

I don’t know that I have a favorite - I did used to watch when they would do the top 100 videos of all time each year!
 
Mine was Heavy Metal Half Hour. We rushed back from class to get to our dorm den just to watch it.
 
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First video I recall ever watching in the 80' was not on MTV (too broke to subscribe) but from "Holland on Satellite" which was available on a VHF channel. Worthy of note also is that "Holland on Satellite" was brought to me by Grolsch Beer.

 
The fact that it even existed.

The original 5 VJs were so goddam cool and the audience got to be on the ride.

We had nothing like that before.

It was a lightening bolt. When Nirvana hit I remember looking around the room and thinking "what the **** was that?!?"

We'll never have those moments again.
 
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More than anything, it's becoming clearer with the passing of time that MTV as kind of at the end of there existing some kind of nationally/worldwide shared cultural touchstones. With the splintering and proliferation of media, there isn't really anything - not movies, TV, or music - that is universally consumed at any level any more.

There isn't any song all the kids are listening to because tastes are so segmented and splintered at such a young age. There's no TV show that everyone watches because there are so many TV shows. There are no movies that captivate a widespread collective audience. Everything has become niche and personal via the internet.

Something like Nirvana's sudden impact can never happen again. ****, even something like the widespread popularity of Blink 182 or the White Stripes around the turn of the century (which was nowhere near Nirvana) can never happen again.

Bottom line, if you can't remember a time before the internet, you will likely never experience the idea of widespread shared cultural moments. With maybe the exception of the first 6 months of COVID.
 
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Just the constant enhancements of video quality and messaging.

Take on Me by A-Ha

Thriller

Vogue

Weapon of Choice

Smack My B**** Up by Prodigy was so edgy and wouldn’t be shown until after midnight
 
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I don’t know that there’s a specific “moment,” but MTV was definitely omnipresent culturally, for better and worse. “I Want My MTV” is a pretty good read if you’re of a certain age.
 
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VIDEOS! And as a teenaged boy in the 80s...many of those videos were must-watch tv! (any Van Halen/David Lee Roth video worked)! But as far as non-videos...Beavis and Butthead was an outstanding watch! Especially when they critiqued videos...the sketches were fun but the when they made fun of videos...laughed until I cried!
 
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Al_4_State said:
More than anything, it's becoming clearer with the passing of time that MTV as kind of at the end of there existing some kind of nationally/worldwide shared cultural touchstones. With the splintering and proliferation of media, there isn't really anything - not movies, TV, or music - that is universally consumed at any level any more.

There isn't any song all the kids are listening to because tastes are so segmented and splintered at such a young age. There's no TV show that everyone watches because there are so many TV shows. There are no movies that captivate a widespread collective audience. Everything has become niche and personal via the internet.

Something like Nirvana's sudden impact can never happen again. ****, even something like the widespread popularity of Blink 182 or the White Stripes around the turn of the century (which was nowhere near Nirvana) can never happen again.

Bottom line, if you can't remember a time before the internet, you will likely never experience the idea of widespread shared cultural moments. With maybe the exception of the first 6 months of COVID.
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I don't know about that, there are definitely still massive cultural phenomenons even in the internet age. Game of Thrones? That was massive. Tiger King? Squid Game?

How about Gangnam Style? That was early 2010's, definitely internet age.

Something like Avengers: Endgame in terms of movies everyone saw, or even the new Top Gun, that thing was everywhere.

Remember when everyone was doing the ice bucket challenge, or planking, or the harlem shake meme?
 
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dahliaclone said:
Just the constant enhancements of video quality and messaging.
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This
When MTV debuted a lot of the videos were from live performances because there just wasn't the content available. At night they would just loop the same 4 hours over and over again.
Videos were experimental at first, just people playing with cameras even though some like Todd Rundgren and the Rolling Stones had already been playing with the medium.

This is the first video I remember seeing. 1973 I beleive

 
Kind of watched it early 80s to 90 then saw it on a guide one day clicked on it no music videos thought "what the hell?" never watched it again
 
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I remember MTV Spring Break never being when I was on spring break and always thought wtf is this ********?
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I was in middle school when I watched my first MTV Spring Break.

It was a lot to take in at that age.
 
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