5 Ways MTV Has Almost Ruined Television
This article first appeared in my xanga blog November 4, 2004.
5. The fact that they think they can get away trying to recycle concepts that didn't work in the first place and put a young spin on them. Most of the time its their own tired concepts that they recycle. 'Rich Girls' is now call 'Laguna Beach'. The only rich girl show anyone cares about is that green Paris Hilton Show on the internet. 'Real World' and 'Road Rules' are the same thing except one is on a road trip the whole time! Since the people who watch these shows seemed to have fallen for this which has duped the rest of the networks to try to do it themselves. They have shown other networks how to get away with being unoriginal. Since I'm fed the same boring shows on every network i turn to I have been forced to contemplate taking up reading or worse.....exercising.
4. MTV has also forced us to listen to overhyped and under talented "singers". Since TRL became mainstream we've had to endure. Boybands, Nelly and others like him (too many to name), The Bum-Bum Song, Carson Daly's lack of charisma, and TRL audience members. Now people who should not be allowed on TV have their own shows, even on other networks. I can't begin to explain the lack of entertainment on Last Call. Carson Daly couldn't look more awkward interviewing guests if he was wearing a dress. Plus its kind hard to do an interview while kissing a guest's ass. Jenny McCarthy's show on NBC was an absolute disaster as well (probably because people lose interest when she's clothed).
3. MTV has totally abandoned what it stood for when it was first created. To promote individuality by showing music from all genres. Today that couldn't be further from the truth. All we get now from them is mindless, unoriginal shows that have nothing to do with music. It molds its viewers into self centered, superficial, dependant, weak minded imbiciles. Making it vertually impossible for other networks to provide quality original programming for the highly sought after MTV audience of 18-25 year olds. Thus we get the crap we see today.
2. It is the sole reason that people like, Ashlee Simpson, Nick Lachey, Jack & Kelly Osborne, Coral, Carson Daly, Sway, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Bam Margara, and every cast member of the Real World and Road Rules have careers. MTV thinks that the majority of television viewers enjoys talentless hacks making us wish we weren't human. If all you have to do is have a mediocre singing talent with comparable looks, be able to swear with a british accenct, or babble incoherently to have a television career, then why haven't I been offered a show or at the very least a record deal?
1. MTV started the reality show craze. Now you can't sit more than 20 minutes in front of the TV without having a reality show shoved in your face. We now have to endure shows like, The Apprentice, Survivor, American Idol, Temptation Island, Fear Factor, Next Top Model, Big Brother, The Swan, Trading Spouses, and the king of all that is wrong in the world and the reason i nearly ripped my eyes out, The Benefactor. Because of all this I have to spend a lifetime waiting for science to create something that will burn images of Naked Richard Hatch, Justin Guarini's Hair, Ruben Studdard's sweat, people eating a horse's penis, Donald Trump's Hair, William Hung, Jesse Palmer ruining his career, and Mark Cuban's ambiguous sexual preference out of my mind. Until then I will blame MTV for everything that is wrong with TV.
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5. The fact that they think they can get away trying to recycle concepts that didn't work in the first place and put a young spin on them. Most of the time its their own tired concepts that they recycle. 'Rich Girls' is now call 'Laguna Beach'. The only rich girl show anyone cares about is that green Paris Hilton Show on the internet. 'Real World' and 'Road Rules' are the same thing except one is on a road trip the whole time! Since the people who watch these shows seemed to have fallen for this which has duped the rest of the networks to try to do it themselves. They have shown other networks how to get away with being unoriginal. Since I'm fed the same boring shows on every network i turn to I have been forced to contemplate taking up reading or worse.....exercising.
4. MTV has also forced us to listen to overhyped and under talented "singers". Since TRL became mainstream we've had to endure. Boybands, Nelly and others like him (too many to name), The Bum-Bum Song, Carson Daly's lack of charisma, and TRL audience members. Now people who should not be allowed on TV have their own shows, even on other networks. I can't begin to explain the lack of entertainment on Last Call. Carson Daly couldn't look more awkward interviewing guests if he was wearing a dress. Plus its kind hard to do an interview while kissing a guest's ass. Jenny McCarthy's show on NBC was an absolute disaster as well (probably because people lose interest when she's clothed).
3. MTV has totally abandoned what it stood for when it was first created. To promote individuality by showing music from all genres. Today that couldn't be further from the truth. All we get now from them is mindless, unoriginal shows that have nothing to do with music. It molds its viewers into self centered, superficial, dependant, weak minded imbiciles. Making it vertually impossible for other networks to provide quality original programming for the highly sought after MTV audience of 18-25 year olds. Thus we get the crap we see today.
2. It is the sole reason that people like, Ashlee Simpson, Nick Lachey, Jack & Kelly Osborne, Coral, Carson Daly, Sway, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Bam Margara, and every cast member of the Real World and Road Rules have careers. MTV thinks that the majority of television viewers enjoys talentless hacks making us wish we weren't human. If all you have to do is have a mediocre singing talent with comparable looks, be able to swear with a british accenct, or babble incoherently to have a television career, then why haven't I been offered a show or at the very least a record deal?
1. MTV started the reality show craze. Now you can't sit more than 20 minutes in front of the TV without having a reality show shoved in your face. We now have to endure shows like, The Apprentice, Survivor, American Idol, Temptation Island, Fear Factor, Next Top Model, Big Brother, The Swan, Trading Spouses, and the king of all that is wrong in the world and the reason i nearly ripped my eyes out, The Benefactor. Because of all this I have to spend a lifetime waiting for science to create something that will burn images of Naked Richard Hatch, Justin Guarini's Hair, Ruben Studdard's sweat, people eating a horse's penis, Donald Trump's Hair, William Hung, Jesse Palmer ruining his career, and Mark Cuban's ambiguous sexual preference out of my mind. Until then I will blame MTV for everything that is wrong with TV.
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Are you Insane? (You will need sound)
posted by Chad Chamley at 1:38 PM
1 Comments:
I couldn't agree with you more about MTV abandoning the tenets on which it was originally founded. I actually did my own rant on this a little while back.
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