Hey guys,
I am sorry to continue this thread especially since I have not seen AMP, maybe I
have no right to voice my opinion. However, this post is exactly right on. We
shouldn't give praise to Mtv. I haven't seen all the videos as I said, but I know in
times past you could find IDM videos for yourselves if you looked hard enough.
The AI videos were good (not the greatest) for example. The Xmix videos are a
great idea as well, as were the Alien DreamTime things, and so forth. Yes, there
must be tons of others out there! I once saw an Aphex video on an independent
local station. (Teletunes for you Coloradans).
We should be careful to give MTV such praise. Hasn't kistory taught us anything
about MTV? Why do you think the created a second Mtv channel to begin with?
More airtime= more money. Homey the Clown had it right man.
If the little shits watching Mtv after they get home high school fall in love with
IDM the next thing you'll see is IDM at your local Kmart or Target stores. Don't
start a flame on this one folks, it can happen and you know it!
The videos may be cool and your opinions about them are great, but watch out
about what Mtv is attempting to do.
my .02cents,
gmv500@earthlink.net
From: Tijohnson@vassar.edu (tiffany)
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 18:36:10 -0500
Subject: (idm) MTV RANT
On September 9th FreyGuy quoted:
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."
Eric Frans wrote:
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....
Hello all,
It's wonderful (sarcasm here) that MTV executives are aware of how crappy
the deal is, but this woman! How does she live with herself?! How condescending
to assume that people need to be told how to define themselves! That's not
true at all. I don't care how "stupid" people are (or MTV thinks they are),
there is no way MTV can justify the claim that they're providing a &^*&@#@
service to the people. If anything, I think it's all the more evil that MTV
knows exactly what it is doing. All this while I had the notion that MTV
did know,
but wasn't quite sure.
So, now they want to find another audience to market their goods to (they've
realized that there are "intelligent" people in the world that don't appreciate
being led by the nose) and so are feeding the pretty little egos of people with
more "complex" musical tastes by creating a special channel for them (or
special shows).
The whole thing is pitiful.
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. I don't feel
comfortable watching a channel based on the sick philosophy that music
should be used to provide ready-made identities for those that can't get
one on their own. They are not thinking
of the music or the artists or the listeners, they are thinking of their
pocketbooks.
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 don't know,
maybe my views are unreasonable, impractical
and just plain paranoid, I'm certainly open to criticism. I just don't
trust MTV. I don't believe that
they have the integrity necessary to promote IDM (or anything, for that
matter) in a way that is beneficial for anyone not participating in their
little agenda (which includes me).
Tiffany