This weeks comic was inspired by a friend of mine who said he hasn’t watched MTV since they stopped playing videos. It raised an interesting question in my head about labels and how poorly they are used these days. Seems that if your called ‘Music Television’ that you would expect it to play music…not so.
Try watching VH1 anytime during the day and take a gander at any one of their ‘celebrity’ reality shows and I challenge you to recognize any of these so-called celebrities. Used to be you had to actually do something to be labeled a celebrity. Now if you posted yourself singing the theme song to The Greatest American Hero, you can now put ‘Singer / Songwriter’ on your business cards.
Sincerely,
Doryan: internet celebrity / filmmaker / producer / writer / singer / fashionista
P.S. – below is the first video to ever air on MTV, ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by the Buggles. Way back when it had this crazy notion of playing actual music videos.
LoL, didnt we talk about this one day? The AMC was a good one..”Dante’s Peak!” lol
I think we did, the last time I was up in jersey.
haha. awesome. this one hit home for me.
I know they come back with “we came out with MTV2, 3 4 and MUNDO” to show videos, but shit, not many people have cable with those channels. Them fuckers!