I think I remember seeing it on Mtv in the 80s. No, really, back then, Mtv used to play music videos sometimes.

Which ones exactly are from movies or TV shows? The one with with the MTV logo is a commercial. I recognise most of the rest as commercials too.

And yes, it makes you a hypocrit if you charge to clean up the poop, and then use that money to buy another dog that will inevitably create more poop. I understand that Dove isn't responsible for Unilever, but none the less it would seem their money is Unilevers.

I liked the content of the interview, so I'll upvote.

...However, if I could downvote the cameraman (who's last gig was apparently shaky-cam dude for MTV's The Real World), I would. Why on earth does a serious interview need a non-fixed camera that wanders around, tilts, and focuses on people's ears?

I think the execs realized the value of an asshole on reality television long before Simon Cowell came across the Atlantic. The ratings boost given to MTV's 'The Real World' way back in 1994 by Puck constantly antagonizing his roommates (especially HIV-positive Pedro) surely got that ball rolling.

so when's mtv going to pick this guy up?

*promote winning the internet.

From the streets of India to MTV.

Or maybe not....

i still think that crt's are the best. i no longer have a tv ditched it(1985 model) in the early 2000's. i also have a lot of vhs tapes with many music vids from mtv's "120 minutes" and usa's "night flight"

Hmm. I switched to google's U.S. version, and it still threw up the same ones That's usually a bad sign btw

I did find more though - http://www.universalmusic.fr/m/video-clip/m-le-roi-des-ombres/

Also this one, which is blocked for me - http://www.mtv.tv/music/artists/m/videos/le-roi-des-ombres-409995/

I found just the music, but the puppets are half the fun.

Otherwise there are live versions, but again, no puppets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3bKuwaxeo

Because Jello said so.

>> ^MonkeySpank:

What bothers me even is the stupid pawn shop show on the History Channel! Talk about a major WTF!


I like where they show "Real and Not" or something, where they show a historically-accurate movie about the Apollo program, culminating in Armstrong's first step.

Then they show 2001:A Space Odessey because like, there's like moon stuff in it.

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I remember the very first day of MTV, and there just isn't any music any more. I don't care what stupid teeny crap they air nowadays, but calling it MTV just... bugs me, I guess. The "M" still means "music" to me.

MTV used to make money by running advertisements non stop, they just called them music videos. Now that music video programming is entertainment, they had to switch to a model that made more money. CD sales really make no difference, as they replaced by digital music sales. And piracy? Please, my older siblings in the tape generation stole more music than I ever did with a dual cassette deck stereo. Not one of them ever paid for a music cassette when they could just wait til their friends bought the cassette and copy it.

>> ^CreamK:

What a load of bull... All thou he is right on one thing: we would see only carly-rae-rihanna-gaga-shit on that channel that we already are been forcefed. The reason they went for reality route is money, specifically advertisement value of "original programming" is way higher than any bunch of short 3-5 minute video clips, cost of doing one minute of reality show is hundreds of times cheaper than one minute of a music video.
It certainly is not because we steal music, it ain't about us wanting to hear Nirvana, that all is just pure lying. It's cost per minute vs revenue per minute.
Music videos are more important than ever, when you go to youtube and search for that one song you want to hear, you expect to see a music video. Even if it's one of the "b-side" songs you still expect it to have a visual part of the story..
The problem isn't our generation but the 14 year old girls, they get all the attention since they are most willing to spend money on fabricated dreams. Our generation, the 80-90s kids grew up seeing really ground breaking good music and wish to see more real art from the next generation. i would love to scream at MTV "too much dubstep", "kids these days are crazy, i don't understand this"... Now the music i see from youngsters is "this is incredibly stupid, monotonous, no substance crap" as we undertand very well what that Nicki Minaj crap is about.


It's not "pure lying". There's been a massive drop in what was a lucrative CD market. It made sense to push music videos when the tv screen was the only one you had access to.

With both those changes you can hardly expect to attract advertisers with music programming. Piracy has been a factor and while it serves certain interests to overstate it, the switch from physical media to downloads meant huge revenue drops.

Are videos still important? Yes but as he says the budget for these things has plummeted. And probably for the better. The more memorable videos of recent years have probably not suffered for the lack of speedboats and explosions.

MTV is like any other business. If they get more viewers showing idiots doing stupid things, they will show more and more idiots doing stupid things.

Why do what YouTube does better?