• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    5 months ago

    The early 90’s is also when they started showing less and less music and more shit like The Real World, Road Trip and Beavis & Butt-Head. Even when I was a kid and saw Nirvana’s Unplugged set (arguably the best episode of Unplugged), the saying that “MTV doesn’t have music videos” was already a popular joke.

    • @profdc9@lemmy.world
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      65 months ago

      Music Television doesn’t necessarily have to be showing videos, but showing something at least tangentially related to music would be nice. MTV is now what every channel is: put whatever is required in front of the viewer to sell ads. All channels are the same shit now.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]
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      45 months ago

      Beavis and Butthead were riffing on music videos for almost half the show though at least. Sometimes was the best part

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        5 months ago

        True. The modern ones feel weird to me with them instead riffing on The Jersey Shore or TikTok videos.

        I think my favorite one was for Black Hole Sun.

        “Hey, Butt-Head, what’s a black hole?”

        “Uhh… It’s like a big bunghole in space that grinds everything up into diarrhea.”