This vendetta I have with MTV is personal, and should not be taken seriously, but this is just my view on why MTV sucks.
People say "oh..MTV is supposed to be music television, but there's no music". True, I mean that's like going to Chik-Fil-A and getting served all seafood items instead of chicken; I'm pretty sure it wouldn't hurt MTV to bring back a music show. They said that the main reason TRL was cancelled was because the verizon store, which was below the TRL studio, was a music store, and now since people are just getting music offline, the music store slowly but surely lost business, and that, in turn, caused the audience of TRL to slowly decrease.
NO.
If I remember correctly, TRL kept changing their time-slots. When I was younger, TRL was on every afternoon. By the time I got to middle school, the airing of TRL would be so early that all of my friends wouldn't be able to watch it. I'm guessing that the reason that TRL kept playing musical chairs with its timeslots is either because A) budget issues or B) to make way for more popular, crappy programming. I understand that music videos are still being played during 3rd shift, but who is really awake at that time besides me and a few other insomniacs, but we aren't watching music videos, we're either on the internet, watching pron, or both (I'll take on the internetz, for $500 Alex!). Now, I DO remember being a few shows that popped up here and there about music, the recent one being Hip Hop POV, but that show has 2 of the worst things a show could have: poor promotion and a poor time-slot. MTV2 is a terrible excuse for a channel BTW, it's basically MTV's excess waste runoff channel, it's the Roman sewer of television. Whats even worse is that it's the only place that shows music vids from years ago, as if anyone is gonna turn 250+ channels just to see old videos and Wild-N'-Out reruns.
Which brings me to my next subject. The VMAs. The VMAs were my favorite music awards show that I watched religiously every year..until 2010. I used to like the VMAs because they were cool, and spunky, and something ALWAYS happened every year, but it's gotten so predictable that you don't even need to look at re-caps to know what happened: Lady Gaga performs, Lady Gaga wins, Beyonce wins again and again and again, Katy Perry performs an upcoming single off of her album, Kanye West is snubbed, but due to tighter security and the fact that he's most likely on someone's song, it's ok. A random band performs, someone is flying over the audience on a tightrope, 2 girls kiss, obvious camera pan of audience.
Don't get me wrong, it's OK to watch the VMAs, it's just that they have slowly morphed into every other awards show, and I don't want to watch it anymore.
Which brings me to SHOWS..ah this is the REAL reason why I don't want to watch MTV anymore. I'm guessing that this whole reality show ordeal started in the late 80's/early 90's, and I get the intent; these shows were aimed at it's target audience of teens and young adults, but that was BAMF generation X! everything they did on the real world was so controversal back then because it was new, but now we've got crappy reality shows that aren't important. What is the point of 16 and pregnant? I feel so bad for these girls..NOT, it's kinda embarassing if you ask me, imagine if your child was pregnant on TV for the nation to see and then everyone questioned your parenting skills. Teen Mom then takes a few of these 16 and pregnant girls and portray them as woe is me damsels in distress, but that's what happens people, you can ask any of the people I graduated high school with, they'll tell you.
And then there is the train wreck that is Jersey Shore. When Jersey Shore first premiered, I LOVED that show, I mean it was so different because I had never really been aware of that guido/guidette lifestyle besides a few trips around wikipedia and a few EPs of True Life. It was RAW when it first came out. Fast forward to today, the cast members have made so much money off of this show (PSSSHH what financial crisis???) and have gotten so famous that whenever they go to the Jersey Shore they have more security protection than the president. I thought the whole format of reality shows were to change the cast every year, why are we still watching the same people? They're RICH FFS, hire another unknown cast and watch them fight, and now that we've gotten so many Jersey shows it's damn near bad stereotyping. The spin-offs are what really facepalm me, like Snooki & JWOWW. Instead of living with her fiance and the two preparing for Snooki's baby, she moves in with JWoww for a few months and things happen, and I even heard that Snooki will be returing to Jersey Shore? Can you say DEFAX?
I'm not gonna take shots at The Pauly D project, as boring as it is, it's the closest thing to a music show on TV, with Pauly being a DJ and such.
Alright, gloves off, who is the fucker at MTV that came up with these shows? One show I really hate is Awkward. If you're gonna have a show about someone being awkward, make them awkward, this chick in the show is pulling major tail all the way around, so the show SHOULD in fact be called Normal. Then there's I Just Want My Pants Back, which is basically a documentary on hipster living. Ridiculousness which is one of the most unnecessary shows on the face of the Earth. My life as an 80's movie ripoff Teen Wolf..I can't even...And the hard times of RJ Berger, which looks like it takes place in the same universe as Awkward, is OK, but they took the main situation of the show, which was RJ being a nerd with a large penis, and pratically ran the hell out of it's course, so now they have to find more things to happen to keep people interested.
MTV knows that these shows are bad, too. In addition to this self-realization, MTV has pissed me off in the WORST way of them all...taking my favorite shows that no one in my life know about, and remaking them! Skins...which thankfully was cancelled, was a travesty of recycled plotlines from the original British Skins show, and MTV really has done it, they are re-making The Inbetweeners! NOOOOOO WTF?! Why? that is one of my favorite UK shows, and I am without a doubt knowing that MTV will fuck it up badly.
I don't mean to offend anyone who loves MTV and all of it's, MTVness, but to put it lightly..it's full of shit, and what makes it worse it that they know they suck too; they try to redeem themselves but it always fails, and it ends up being a really crapshit tv show with only one or two seasons. Earlier this week, they decided for some reason, to air a Daria marathon, because they knew that they were sucking, so someone at headquarters went "we need our gen-x'er back!"..nice try MTV, even though I'm not a gen-x'er, I DO know what Daria is, and I have the box set DVD, so you, my friend, have failed. For future references, let TLC have the reality shows, let TeenNick and ABC family have their teenage wasteland programming, and bring back some actual musical television during reasonable hours so that people wont have to always rely on crappy internet stream to see their favorite artists and music videos. I want my MTV back!
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