Neal Damiano
@NealD · 3:30
What happened to MTV? It does not pertain to music in any capacity? Reality tv fodder
When it first came out the New York season, it just was such an innovative idea. But now I just could not believe my eyes. It was indated with, like just a certain image of young kids in houses in hot tubs and 16 year old girls that are pregnant. I couldn't believe that my niece was watching this stuff. It was just absolutely absurd. I guess my question is anybody watched MTV recently or continues to watch MTV? And is there any shows pertaining to music
That was my local channel out in California. I don't know if anybody else had that. I'm really not sure, but that's why we saw them go away, because there just became an easier way to get music. I think that's really what it's about was ease. It completely shifted as time went on. And so I remember I used to find out about new artists through watching channels like MTV or VH One or The Box and watching music videos for hours on end
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:55
What happened to MTV? It was ahead of the curve with cutting edge music videos that changed the way in which how the music business ran and also opened up vulnerable wounds that the music industry still cannot hear from in the sense of being able to watch and digest music for free. Also, it was ahead of the curve in terms of reality TV. It was cutting edge at the time. It was interesting to look at the real world. I remember almost season one through season six
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:03
What's up, Taylor? And you make some really good points. Yeah. It's no longer viable for MTV to show music videos. I completely understand that with the inflection of subscription music services like you mentioned, Pandora and SoundCloud and Band Camp, all these outlets that people can go to now. And YouTube certainly killed the music video era. Absolutely. But it's sad to see it go. And I think you feel the same way. It's just really weird how bands make money now
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:53
Because MTV has always marketed what was cool and then sold it back to us. And it's always done that. So I think media kind of does that. And it's long past the days of video stores, record stores and music videos and music DJs. And I've really miss that time period
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 0:44
You know what wonderful thinking back to what you said. I get what you're saying. Now we do. We do control what we listen to because of the Internet and YouTube. So absolutely, just light bulb in my head what you meant by that. So I get it. We can punch in any music video we want on YouTube, and it will come up. So I completely get your point. Yeah. People love that. My myself love that
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:36
Now, obviously they still have satellite radio and people still listen to it. And it's funny that survived. Whereas the music video networks have pretty much withered away and died. And I think too, they just weren't innovative. They didn't bring nothing new to present said music anymore. I think TRL was kind of the end of music videos as well
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:13
And I think that has changed music video a lot, because now the youth can kind of reach out to their celebrity and maybe get a reply 50 50 shot. But I come from the days of video VJs. I loved watching Kurt Loder do the Week in Rock and MTV News. He's a seasoned journalist. He's probably my favorite on MTV. And if you're familiar with him, he started out, he did film reviews, and he's a big influence of mine