INTO THE VIDEO VOID
I can’t believe it. I can’t believe how much lower the state of MTV’s programming has fallen since I did my last video column just three months ago. I had always feared that MTV would follow FM rock radio’s overnight decline from underground sensation to hidebound establishment, but like an acne chain run amok, MTV has squeezed out wholly new globs of conservative pus in recent weeks.
INTO THE VIDEO VOID
Richard Riegel
I can’t believe it.
I can’t believe how much lower the state of MTV’s programming has fallen since I did my last video column just three months ago. I had always feared that MTV would follow FM rock radio’s overnight decline from underground sensation to hidebound establishment, but like an acne chain run amok, MTV has squeezed out wholly new globs of conservative pus in recent weeks.
For instance, I was briefly (foolishly) cheered when MTV premiered their new VH-1 channel a while back. Targeted at 30ish statistics like your reporter, VH-1 would theoretically give the softer forms of "rock,” soul, and country videos a full-time forum, so that regular MTV could get on with heavier rotation of the metal videos the kids were said to be lapping up.