After spending the weekend watching MTV and MTV2's Rock Weekend with my friends, I now have come to the conclusion that MTV is the most revolting thing there is on television. My correspondant, Beth, was watching with me MTV's "How to Live like a Rock Star" and here is what she had to say about it.
1st: MTV supports Fred Durst, an egotistical (just watch 'MY Way' and that's all the proof you'll need) mentally challenged whiny brat who was a past punk of the week.
2nd: Mtv's airing of "How To Live Like A Rock Star" was the most foul revolting thing I have ever witnessed. Yes this may be the cold hard truth about SOME rock bands but not ALL of them. It sends a very wrong message, "to be a 'rock star'" you have to have an unbelievable gluttonous house and indulge in the rock and roll lifestyle clich� of booze and fast easy women with no regard of absolutely ANYTHING.That is wrong and shouldn't be shown as a "glamorous" or envied lifestyle, yes maybe that side has a certain right to be told, it shouldn't however be so exploited, revered or seen as a "cool" way to live.We need to EVOLVE out of this belief.
3rd: NO FRIGGIN MUSIC VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!How can they call themselves MusicTelevision? ITS NOT! They have TRL, whoa big leap in the music evolution. 2 minute clips from widely known pop songs that are interrupted by screaming annoying people i feel like clubbing with a 2x4.And oh did i mention the spiffy videos they show at 3am? THE ONLY TIME THEY SHOW MUSIC VIDEOS other that TRL. woah how generous. MTV is just a big dumpster of shows now. Like Fear, yeah im so afraid, do you really think ANYTHING is going to happen to these people?NO! MTV doesn't want to get sued. Oh and Undressed, an ode to worthless shit tv. The other myriad of shows are just too many to name and too useless to comment on, just refer to the second to the last word of my last sentence i wrote about Undress and there you have it.
4th: Spring Break. I live near Panama City Beach, one of the many places MTV has decided to take their cult following of fans all of which are beer guzzling WASTES OF SPACE to urinate on.It used to be a beautiful place to go, but since MTV has left their skid marks all over it, it has become the most commercialized strip club/strip mall ever. Thanks MTV for making another beautiful unique thing degenerated like yourself.
5th: You never show METALLICA the OFFSPRING or SMASHING PUMPKINS, therefore, you suck.
6th: You give no support to bands we give no support to you.
My personal views on this subject run along the same lines as hers. MTV has turned a nation into a pile of processed meat in a grocery store and all they sell is chicken. Eventually everything starts to be processed to taste like chicken (like crackers, cheese, soup, you name it, it's chicken), until the point that you don't like chicken anymore, and you begin to hate it because EVERYTHING tastes like chicken! Sometimes they'll sell beef, but only at midnight. Then the shoppers never eat stuff like pork, or turkey, crap! No one eats vegetables anymore! No they want chicken and the occassional beefy burger. So then once you abstain from chicken you walk into another store (VH1) and you see posters of chicken everywhere. People in the stores sing songs written about chicken. You hear lectures about how the chicken was invented. They even dress like chickens. Why? Because they were fed chicken all the time. When they get offered a baked potato they turn their noses and say "Eww! That's boring!" or someone forks over some fettachini they look at it funny and proclaim "that's too wierd for my tastes" So what is a solution to this? Chicken Voila! It's a frozen dinner in a bag with chicken (or beef) mixed with vegetables and a cool garlic, cheese, or alfredo sauce, and it comes in several differant varieties.
What is all this rambling for? Kill the processed meat. I'm sick of having TRL, and that skanky rap/hip-hop crap shoved down my throat all the time. I'm sick of seeing people try to be like their favorite pop/rap stars. I'm sick of them shoving themes of sex and drugs down my throat. I refuse to eat chicken any longer! I refuse to be the recording indrustry and media's new born baby, and eat what they feed me. No! Give me vegetables! Give me fruit! Heck! Give me CANDY! MTV you have raped the music industry. As the song says "Video killed the radio star."
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