FabGuys.com forum: MTV No More.

By *iono555 OP Man
2 weeks ago

DERBY

I know this will only hit with Gen Xrs & Millennial but... I haven't watched music TV since Scuzz departed for Infernal Chorus seven years ago... but MTV shutting down finally brought up some mixed feelings for me. Virtually all the music I listen to on YouTube is stuff I discovered on MTV2/Alt. Nation or HBB. It still feels less bland & conformist than most modern plastic pop ( with exceptions). It also feels more noticeably authentic & working class ( Heavy Metal, Goth & NWBHM though to Nu Metal are explicitly political, subversive, transgressive & working class, which is why journalists hate them: they prove we think for ourselves & aren't a fungible group) than the dreck you still get churned out as "popular".

Around 2000 I was going severe depression which has stayed with me ever since. MTV2 got me some way out of that: it also had a major influence on my taste in men.

Yes, it's always been a corporatism machine, but it's at least been a vehicle for synthesis, unlike the social media shouting factory that's followed.

By *ressmesissyTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Basingstoke

Not watched MTV for years, stopped when I felt it was just showing what the music corps wanted them to play. And yes a big noticeable decline in rock and alt music

By *SAOFMan
2 weeks ago

Work/Play in London, live in Kent

I like many of us have not watched in years. When I recently saw a listing of the to 10 artists who had made most money from their work being included on TV across all TV channels,it really his home a little of a music station it was. The only name on the list I recognised was the lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies and that was because of a theme tune he written. Apparently the musical artist whom MTV in particularhave paid most money to, other composers of the theme tune of its reality TV shows.

By *antysubukMan
2 weeks ago

Rugby

Ahhh MTV introduced me to my favourite band. And then I heard a lot of other bands for the first time through MTV2. Those were the days

By *indickMan
2 weeks ago

South Devon

MTV dance was brilliant 2000-05, the main MTV was unwatchable by that point esp when they dropped music