@superineficaz: Oh look at you with all of your fun facts! :)
so maybe it wasnt actually during trl. just something i thought about when i think about trl. please forgive me for getting my time line all kinds of F'ed up.
the fact still remains me.mtv.tape recorder.mmmbop.
I don't like the one song by Taylor Swift that I've heard, but I heard her on the radio talking about freaking out about Def Leppard and them having no idea who she was when she begged them to do that CMT Crossroads thing with her, and she seemed extremely likable and self-deprecating. I still don't know that I'd buy one of her albums, but she gets a pass on any booties she wants to wear because of it.
@MisterMoonlight: i saw that cmt crossroads thing she did with def leppard this weekend. her singing 'pour some sugar on me' as a duet with the band was .......skeevy. they switched out the verses on 'photograph' so that she wouldn't have to sing the part about 'such a woman...', and she was earnest and geeky enough, but there was a lot of rock posturing going on with her, and she didn't really have the voice to match.
This made me feel older than anything else, ever. TRL goes off the air and I only know who three (four if you count LaLa) the "stars" are? Excuse me, I need to go look up the best early bird special at Denny's for dinner tonight.
@R_Claw...v.2.01 now comes with hope for the future.: Country singer. Pretty talented - I like a few of her songs and I'm not even into country. Plus she crosses over into mainstream pop quite a bit, so that's probably why you keep hearing about her.
anyone else remember the email campaign that circulated at the height of the late 90s boyband build up that asked us all to vote for a new kids on the block video on Total Request Live (this was loooong before they abbreviated it to TRL), and it actually worked? I think it was like #2 that day. I totally participated in that ... as any 15 year old girl would have, i'm sure. I think I probably even still have it on a VHS tape somewhere at my parents' house.
I did not know TRL was dunzo. MTV is finally free to change its name to Reality TV-kicking off its programming schedule with the gut wrenching Moon Man: 10 Years Later.
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But I love Beyonce's jacket, if only paired with some restrained jeans.
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The demise of TRL wreaks havoc the stock houses, so many magazines used those photos on the TRL wall for celeb footage.
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And the many many times of me putting my tape player up to the TV screen trying to record mmmbop onto a tape for my friends.
Aw. Hanson <3
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mmmbop was, like, spring of '97, and TRL didn't go on the air until fall of '98.
i was very, very invested in such things at the time (ehr, and remain so, apparently).
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so maybe it wasnt actually during trl. just something i thought about when i think about trl. please forgive me for getting my time line all kinds of F'ed up.
the fact still remains me.mtv.tape recorder.mmmbop.
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Oh, and the wacky guy who won their VeeJay contest. Jesse? Anyone remember him? He freaked Carson out.
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And Taylor Swift's shoes ruin an otherwise perfect outfit.
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