Hello,
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, tiffany wrote:
quoted 4 lines "MTV is junk pop culture that tells people who to be, what to like,
> >"MTV is junk pop culture that tells people who to be, what to like,
> >and basically defines who they are. It is for people who need to be told.
> >Then there are the people who know what is cool and just want you to provide
> >it. M2 is for those people."
(actually she didn't write this part, just quoted it herself)
MTV is nothing else than a 24 hours advertising channel. Program and
commercial breaks are almost the same and don't think that the
"underground" makes any profit out of this. Buisiness as usual!
If you want to support majors, fine, buy CD at Blockbuster and watch MTV
day and nite but don't complain then about missing innovation, about a
dying underground. Buy going to the real underground clubs and by buying
vinyl at your local record dealer, you can do something for this scene
yourself. It takes some more effort, work and maybe more money but it is
worth it!
quoted 6 lines Even if you don't hear back from them (I'm sure they get loads of e-mail)
> >Even if you don't hear back from them (I'm sure they get loads of e-mail)
> >you can at least voice your appreciation of the show. I sent them an
> >e-mail a couple days ago and I encourage other fans of the AMP show to do
> >the same. Maybe if enough people show their support it will push MTV to
> >continue the show. I'm sure they are probably still debating whether or
> >not to keep it going or not. Let's try and sway them....
so what? After watching some of those Techno-Shows on MTV-Europe and
Germans own music channel VIVA I am not interested in those programes
anymore. Don't expect much there and prepare for a lot of techno related
advertising (CD-sampler, streat-wear, energyser dinks, etc.).
quoted 1 line I don't care how "stupid" people are (or MTV thinks they are),
> I don't care how "stupid" people are (or MTV thinks they are),
at least people are clever enough to buy the advertised products,
otherwise there wouldn't be $MTV$.
quoted 3 lines People's relationship with music shouldn't be like this. I don't care if
>
> People's relationship with music shouldn't be like this. I don't care if
> MTV tries to impress me with it's airing of obscure videos, it's still MTV.
right! :)
quoted 2 lines They are not thinking of the music or the artists or the listeners, they
> They are not thinking of the music or the artists or the listeners, they
> are thinking of their pocketbooks.
Sure, what else? Why should that be different?! They arn't a public or
independent station.
quoted 5 lines It's great that these videos are being made and also aired to a larger
> It's great that these videos are being made and also aired to a larger
> audience, but at what price? Do we really want to encourage MTV to approprate
> yet another part of culture and water it down?
> There has to be another way to view these videos that doesn't involve
> kissing the butts of MTV executives.
I think it should be but I don't know how and why not?
Course, making videos costs a lot of money and what is the sense of a
video? Selling your music. So probably a distribution of music-videos
through our noramal distributors (f.e. Submerge) would be nice but then
noone would have money to make videos.
quoted 2 lines I don't know, maybe my views are unreasonable, impractical
> I don't know, maybe my views are unreasonable, impractical
> and just plain paranoid,
I agree very much to you.
Question: why music videos? Do we neet them? Does this music need videos?
Wasn`t Techno (as Disco, House, etc.) about dancing on the dancefloor?
I don't know, I think videos can be a great creative addition to the music
and some videos show this very impressivly. Generally I don't really need
those videos and can do without them.
best wishes and no flames please,
harald
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