1 edit | YAY! We can finally watch music videos!
I think the real issue with MTV is that interest in music videos peaked around the year 2000. And now no one cares.
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 hopeflickerCapitalism breeds greedPremium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
kudos:1 | Where have you been? 
Youtube has always had all of these videos and more
BTW, that MTV site is shit. It is way bloated and has always loaded wayyyy toooo slowwwwww.
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 jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA | reply to canesfan2001
said by canesfan2001:We can finally watch music videos! I think the real issue with MTV is that interest in music videos peaked around the year 2000. And now no one cares. I think you missed the mark by at least a decade. |
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Maybe your interest dropped before then, but the largest budget videos were 1999-2000.
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skurfa
join:2006-03-10
Yorktown, VA | reply to hopeflicker
Holy crap,
Another Cruxshadows fan! 
28 days to my next live fix in Richmond, new lineup should be interesting. |
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jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | reply to canesfan2001
You are probably right about that, but it seems that the money spent on videos more or less followed the state of the economy more than anything else. 2000 was the last stable year, economically speaking, as the dotcom boom was ramping up during the 90's. Everyone was foolishly spending money with reckless abandon.
Also, Napster and similar utilities crushed the music industry's stranglehold on "pop" music about the same time that music video's peaked in production cost. No longer could they simply make a catchy jingle, get a pretty face to belt it out, and throw top dollars into their tightly controlled system to generate a star and hit song. But music videos were well on there way to being a novelty on MTV and VH1 way before 2000. You were lucky to catch 30 minutes of videos in a row on TRL back then. |
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hopeflickerCapitalism breeds greedPremium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
kudos:1 | reply to skurfa
said by skurfa:Holy crap, Another Cruxshadows fan! 28 days to my next live fix in Richmond, new lineup should be interesting. and sure enough there's no CS videos on the MTV site.
Saw them in Hollywood and S.D. 3 weeks ago
great show.
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 MrMoodyFree range slavePremium
join:2002-09-03
Smithfield, NC | reply to jmn1207
Yeah, music video production $ and MTV content were only indirectly related because MTV wasn't producing (most of) the videos, they were only showing them.
The way I remember it, in the early 90s MTV was still heavily music videos, with bands like R.E.M. and Nine Inch Nails ruling the video airwaves. Then by the late 90s, the crybaby "reality" shows and gossip crap had taken over and I quit watching it.
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 james
join:2001-02-26
CWCville USA | reply to canesfan2001
said by canesfan2001:Maybe your interest dropped before then, but the largest budget videos were 1999-2000. Perhaps the large budget was due to the music industry trying to drum up interest after falling sales and tv ratings? I'd have to agree that general interest in music videos peaked in the early 90's, and maybe even earlier. |
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 BloodRosesAeolus, your daughter flies.Premium
join:2003-03-17
Louisville, KY | reply to skurfa
Another one right here.  |
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | reply to canesfan2001
Enjoy your mainstream rubbish music videos and slaves to the record companies. |
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jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | reply to mrchris
said by mrchris:Enjoy your mainstream rubbish music videos and slaves to the record companies. Oh relax a little, there were some good ones here and there. Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was one I look forward to seeing again. |
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