9/9/96 SS wrote:
quoted 2 lines Hmm so I take it you don't listen to any kind of radio, watch any TV,>Hmm so I take it you don't listen to any kind of radio, watch any TV,
>etc. They are all in the business to make a buck.
I do listen to the radio, watch TV, etc. but I try to support channels that
I feel have good intentions. Like college radio, for instance. Okay, I've
been known to watch some Highlander episodes, I'm not perfect, but I don't
watch things that are pathetic, like MTV Singled Out where typical
questions include "Do you prefer brainy or non-brainy? Big breasted or
small breasted? Anorexic or Bulemic? Big genitals or small? A small basset
hound-like intelligence or slug-like intelligence?" Granted, the AMP show
could make up for the quality that is lacking in other shows on MTV, but I
don't think it'll work out that way. Just take a look at present day
Alternative Nation.
quoted 2 lines If fact you wouldn't have any of the idm music you have now if>If fact you wouldn't have any of the idm music you have now if
>the artists didn't make some kind of money off it to sustain themselves.
Supporting an artist and supporting a huge monoploistic corporation like
MTV are two entirely different things. To me, anyway.
quoted 4 lines You>You
>might as well sit there and stare at the wall, but then again the people who
>made the paint and cement on that wall were thinking of making a buck when
>they made them too.
Hm. Sometimes I prefer staring at the wall to staring at MTV. Especially
during that Poe video.
quoted 2 lines I don't get your point that MTV provides ready-made>I don't get your point that MTV provides ready-made
>identities for those that can't get their own...that makes no sense.
I know! That's what I thought (you misunderstood me here), _MTV_ said that
was their purpose (to provide ready-made identities). I think it's a
condescending and stupid purpose, very different from the purpose of say,
an independent or a college radio station or a public access channel.
quoted 3 lines You're>You're
>against someone who hasn't been exposed to IDM and Ambient music seeing Amp
>and liking it and purchasing some of the artist's CDs that were on the show?
I'm not against people, I'm against MTV as a governing body of what music
we see and hear and how we see and hear it. There is good in many things
(and exposure can be one of them in this instance) but sometimes the bad
outweighs the good so much that you just have to set priorities. I guess
that it's a question of what is more important: quality or quantity, to be
simplistic about it. Maybe I just hate Daisy Fuentes too much to see the
issue in a clear-headed manner.
happy listening,
tiffany
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Tiffany A. Johnson (tijohnson@vaxsar.vassar.edu)
Art History; major Women's Studies; minor
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
or
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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