Adventures in My Mind
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Aug 1, 2001
MTV turns 20 today! Big f*****g deal.
What started as a revolution - you're kidding yourself if you think it wasn't - is now so derivative, passe and self-indulgent that I can no longer tell the difference between the bad wigs of Kurt "I'm a serious journalist" Loder and John "Do you want fries with that?" Norris.
I will not even comment on Carson Daley.
Much like SNL after the original Not Ready for Primetime Players left, MTV has not been the same since the departure of Martha Quinn, J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, and Alan Hunter. But while SNL rebounded with the fabulous talents of Eddie Murphy, Phil Hartman, Dennis Miller, Billy Crystal, Mike Myers, and Darrell Hammond, MTV has given us the thrilling pre-packaged homogeneity of Jenny McCarthy, The Real World, Fred Durst, Eminem, Brittney Spears, and a resurgent, geriatric nightmare called Aerosmith.
Of course there are those who cling to the notion that MTV is still relevant, and, yes, still revolutionary. Yeah, they're so revolutionary that the people who franchised the music video no longer play them.
Get it?
Got it.
Give me the remote before I rip your goddamn arms off!
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