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If MTV Really Wants To "Do Good", Why Is Cribs Still On The Air?

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Cam/ron
04/19/09

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The last socially responsible act committed by MTV was when they devoted an entire day reporting hate crimes. That was about seven or eight years ago.
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steampoweredboy
04/18/09

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Where MTV went off the rails was when it stopped being about people you admire (musicians, performers, artists...god KEITH HERRING did art for MTV) and could emulate and started being about loathsome people.

My super sweet 16? Made me want a vascetomy.

The Hills? Because people born wealthy with copious free time to shop and tan are very relateable to teens making 6.50 an hour at a mall in Utica.

Even "The Real World" stopped featuring actual humans years ago, going for various shades of drunken muscle-heads with the token GLBTQ person tossed in.

There's a reason "True Life" has such appeal. Seeing someone you can relate to, someone you can connect with, that's really important to young adults (see YA fiction for about a million examples) to experience.

As for music? Internet killed the video star a long way back.
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Cam/ron
04/19/09

@steampoweredboy: Indeed, MTV had quite a few great artists create promos for them (i.e. Haring, Quay Brothers, Henry Selick). Those were the days when bizarre, art-school minted cartoons were all over the channel.
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Frank Gargione
04/18/09

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BowlingForDollars
04/18/09

@Frank Gargione: Boy, you just wandered into the wrong place.

If you don't like Hortense, why don't you fuck off?
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Jack_Burton
04/18/09

Fixed that for you. - J
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hej hej
04/18/09

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I'm still waiting for MTV to bring back Trailer Fabulous.
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BowlingForDollars
04/18/09

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MTV will never play music again, because it's all about the ratings. The increments in which videos are played are not long enough to be measured on a Nielsen scale. It's why the very first segment of a TV show is longer than the subsequent segments - the network has to carry the audience past a certain clock tick to register a rating.

But I do like Cribs, because I enjoy seeing how morons spend their money. They'll all be broke in 5 years anyway.
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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

@BowlingForDollars: I liked the Cribs with Pauly Shore. He had a chain link fence and some bicycles.
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stoprobbers
04/18/09

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If MTV really wants to do something positive in the world, they can start with PLAYING SOME GODDAMNED MUSIC VIDEOS.
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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

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I honestly wouldn't be all that excited about an MTV which played videos. There aren't any bands right now that I like. Plus I have 800 zillion secondary MTV channels which I think do play videos. But I never watched them cause, as I said, music today is kind of stagnant.
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SituationVacant
04/18/09

@vanka-vstanka: Everyone mentions there is no good music today. And while I agree that MTV probably wouldn't air anything I'd be interested in, there is good music out there. There is always good music in the world, you just have to look. And usually, it's worth the search.

Yeah for the internet, I guess. And satellite radio.
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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

@SituationVacant: There's music I like; it just falls out of the current American rock music scene. Going to shows in Brooklyn used to be part of my job, and I just didn't feel it.

I like German techno and Russian punk, though.
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Schm
04/18/09

@vanka-vstanka: My thing is, I think that music videos have become repetitive and boring. You know? At least the mainstream ones which would be primarily featured on MTV. Back in the 80s and 90s, there was a lot of experimentation going on with special effects and whatnot, so it was incredibly entertaining to watch them. But now, save for a few out-of-the-box great videos here and there, they mostly sorta just look the same.
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Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane
04/18/09

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Have to admit, I did watch the MTV True Life Stories for a while, because I was hoping the one "I'm the New Kid in Town" would turn up, as it was filmed at my sisters school, and I know all the people in it. It's hilarious.

[www.mtv.com]
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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

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They should have an MTV nostalgia channel.
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hej hej
04/18/09

@vanka-vstanka: I would watch. Viewers could request videos and watch classic MTV shows. I vote for Daria, The State, Buzzkill, Just Say Julie, Dismissed, Singled Out, Surf Girls, and Maui Fever.

I also want Jesse Camp back. I'm sorry, but I do.

I watched waaaay too much MTV growing up. I still do, actually.
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Beat Girl
04/18/09

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I've just realised something while replying above. Since Youtube have changed their terms of use regarding the sharing of official music videos, this is surely the time for one or two music videos to start creeping back on to MTV. When the internet's biggest one stop shop (which was phasing out MTV's audience in the first place) ceases to give the public music videos, it's time to monopolise.
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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

@Beat Girl thinks everything's gone Blah: Didn't they only change the policy for the UK?
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Beat Girl
04/18/09

@Beat Girl thinks everything's gone Blah: It isn't happening everywhere, but it has happened in the UK.

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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

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I miss Beavis and Butt-head marathons that I could sit in watch for twelve hours. The things elementary schoolers watched before Hannah Montana.
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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

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Liz11685
04/18/09

@vanka-vstanka: I used to watch "My So-Called Life" marathons, and Daria marathons. Literally would lose entire Saturdays. Loved it.
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bea_arthur
04/18/09

@Liz11685: I recently found a link to Daria episodes on YouTube and could not bring myself to do anything else.

Also, why has Daria not been released on DVD? I would buy the shit out of that. And you would think a money making machine like MTV would want those kinds of profits.
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vanka-vstanka
04/18/09

@bea_arthur: One of the issues with Daria is the incidental music has to be replaced because of copyright/royalty issues. Same reason why Beavis and Butt-head dvds don't include the videos, which was the best part. So I torrented that shit, and now I have sweet, unedited, Daria and B&B-H.

In other countries though, they can show everything, videos and all. Stupid America.
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Lin-Z [linguist on duty]
04/18/09

@bea_arthur: You can however get a torrent of Daria episodes of variable quality. Not an ideal solution, but if they're not even giving the option to buy it and you need that sarcasm fix....
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bloodflower
04/18/09

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also cribs is not only unnecessary but BORING!
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greengrey
04/18/09

@bloodflower: I don't understand the appeal. I guess it's kind of like window shopping? It's not like most of the houses on it are even decorated nicely.

If HGTV were to do something on mansions/apartments that are decorated really well and have some bad ass stuff in it, I'd watch that. But some sports person bragging about their tacky crap? Feh.
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whats_in_a_name
04/18/09

@greengrey: Don't forget the bragging about how well stocked the bar is, no episode of Cribs is complete until a bottle of extremely high priced booze has made an appearance. So maybe in addition the an HGTV show there should be a Food Network show about awesome cocktails.
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bloodflower
04/18/09

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i never leave the house when mtv has true life marathons. they should feature more shows like that.
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The HZA.
04/18/09

@bloodflower: I spent the morning watching Made and True Life. I love those so much.
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EKane
04/18/09

@bloodflower: True Life is the only show that makes me tune into MTV. So trashy and good!
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Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane
04/18/09

@EKane: I love you can watch them on their website, then I can laugh at my sister's friends on the one they were involved in.
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cwisto moweina has got yer goat
04/18/09

@bloodflower: They were interesting at first, but then they started doing ones on like "I live in New Jersey", "I'm moving back in with my parents", "I have pierced ears", and it just got lame.
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morninggloria
04/18/09

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MTV is a business and unfortunately doing socially responsible things isn't always the best way for a business to make money.

If "being socially responsible" were financially lucrative on a micro level, social workers would be making six figure incomes and derivatives traders would be applying for food stamps.
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morninggloria
04/18/09

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Music Television killed the video star.
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