Posters to promote MTV’s Jersey Shore in Buenos Aires and 30 other international markets
In Latin America, GTL = gimnasio, bronceado, lavandería (NY Times)
Can a T.V. channel devoid of music ban a music video?
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Remember when world premieres of music videos would be all-day hyped events on MTV, VH1 and BET? Now the Internet usurped these channels’ thrones by releasing directly online before ever appearing on any television station.
As much as nostalgia fondly recalls those epic world premieres like Michael Jackson’s “Scream” and Madonna’s “Frozen,” I remember feeling hostage to hour-long often repetitive airings of video including the artist’s video catalog.
Even when there was a video deemed provocative enough for MTV to restrict it to the late-night hours like Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up,” it garnered enough interest because it couldn’t be seen anywhere else. Now, not so much. Youtube straight murked that. Even Madonna’s once raunchy “Justify My Love” looks like a tame episode of Gossip Girl almost 18 years later.
Still, MTV’s action just certified it’s irrelevance in terms of a music source.
No doubt that if the video killed the radio star back in the 80s then the Internet
has been slowly poisoning the music channel for the past five years.
“Obama Fried Chicken” Sign Cut From Rap Video
A recently released music video for “Popular Demand” by the Clipse featured the awning of the infamous Obama Fried Chicken joint in Brownsville, Brooklyn. But in comparing versions of the video airing on MTV and elsewhere, it looks like the TV channel completely erased the restaurant’s name from the awning in the video’s opening shot. (source)
Missing factoid from this story: MTV does not play music videos.
To keep non-ticket holders from watching a U2 concert commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, MTV and concert organizers put up... a 12-foot wall.
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probably the first and last time u will see this person on anything I post - but how awesome is this photo bomb? (look behind the thing that looks like the little girl from The Grinch)
A good majority of the memes that resulted from this event have been weak but this video tries real hard. MTV’s You Lie! w/Joe Wilson - starring Corbin Bernsen
