Saturday, June 02, 2007

MTV, what happened?


Back to 1994(yes,I´m sure it was that year, because Kurt Cobain had just passed away)I remember how excited I was to watch MTV,the most important channel of music that broadcasted video clips the whole day.I was just a teenager, crazy about music and Rock, learning how to play the guitar(although at that time I had a spanish guitar and I wanted a electric guitar, which my father gave me as a present three years later).I remember that it was a good moment for Rock music,in spite of Kurt Cobain´s death and the future of Grunge was not very good.At that time Britpop was the next big thing in music, with excellent bands such as Oasis,Pulp,Radiohead,Blur and Supergrass and many others.I remember sitting the whole weekend watching videos and concerts, jumping all over my living room listening to "Basket Case" by Green day,or being in love with Alanis Morissette and got sentimental with The Cranberries.God!that was a really good time,my adolescence.I was the king in my own land,music was my pride and joy...but what happened with this channel that was part of my years as a teenager.Nowadays if you watch MTV you have to be very lucky to see a video clip, because the vast mayority of the programmes are reality shows,the most stupid ones(just watch Next!).Now it seems that Vj´s have disappeared,the shows are programmed by the viewers and sometimes they are the stars of these shows...concerning music,you will watch the most commercial music ever made, and forget about variety and good taste.If you watch MTV now you will see some videos of Belinda,Teen Angels,Hilary Duff or the so called rebel Avril Lavigne...Do you remember "Unplugged",that superb show in which the greatest rock icons played their songs with acoustic instruments?Forget about it.I used to watch Unplugged every saturday at primetime, and I had the chance to watch the best perfomances ever like the one by Nirvana, Eric Clapton, The Cure or Pearl Jam.It´s shame that this great tv channel has become what it is today,just marketing and lack of quality and soul.

1 comment:

Raquel Soria said...

My dear friend what happened with MTV was that it is not a channel that broadcats the best quality music , butthe the best seller music, that´s why it has declined in such as terrible way!! So if it happen that i decide to have a band and it succeded it will have the opportunity to be there too!! it is for anyone who sells records in other words who makes money!!