OT: This is great. And true.
- Thread starter ChiefJusticeMarshall
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Music videos used to be so damn great. What a lost art form. Money For Nothing, November Rain, I Would Do Anything For Love, Paranoid Android, Thriller... ugh. Now you get a $200 budget generic video on YouTube.
Remote Control
Spring Break
Yo MTV Raps
Headbangers Ball
Real World
Beavis and Butthead
Spring Break
Yo MTV Raps
Headbangers Ball
Real World
Beavis and Butthead
I think Beavis and Butthead and Sandblast were the only only shows I cared for, but I was fairly young in the early 90s. Maybe Singled Out on occasion. TRL had its moment in the sun as well, but it made Groundhog Day look like Leap Year.
Videos could be that way again. Assuming someone was willing to spend a million dollars to make one. For example, you mention November Rain. The budget for that video was $1.5 million. No one in their right mind would spend that kind of money to make a video today. Heck, no one in their right mind did it back then either!
They stayed relevant to the demographic they were going for way long after they stopped playing videos, once that demo stopped watching tv MTV went the cheap route and just ran Ridiculousness on a loop.
Young Ones - I used to stay up then go to high school in the morning. I tried watching it recently and it wasn’t the same.
120 minutes used to come on at midnight.
120 minutes used to come on at midnight.
What artist actually what song made in the last 5 maybe even 10 years are worth watching a video for? I may be having an old man yelling a a cloud moment, but there maybe 20 songs over the last 5 to 10 years truly good enough to warrant a decent size budget video.
I absolutely loved 120 minutes.
