Hard to argue with Reg on that one.
I will not argue with the truth.
The modern emphasis is on the video and not the song.
With the videos your imagination becomes inoperative..........................
“I’m glad we were because we were real artists.”
Howls, Bruce. Howls of derisive laughter.
Never liked that no-talent little corksoaker with his genital warts in the throat and his cub-scout dancers. His fame was fired solely by the glamor of Evil.
I am very fond on 80s music and I think MTV ushered in a lot of creativity.
The music industry itself changed and discovering and developing new talent became out of fashion. The big contract? Your garage band isn’t going to get one. It’s very tough to start out and to last a long while. Much (not all) of the acts promoted by the big companies today are just flavor of the month.
If you search for independent labels, you can find some really good artists. But Elton John came from an era with a very different industry. I’m not at all sure that MTV was the reason that all faded away.
And, oh by the way, the fact that I can’t buy a CD of a 40-year-old album for less than 20 bucks is an absolute crime. They sell more if they lowered their dang prices. Lousy business model.
LOL. One of the knocks on Sir Elton in the 70s was that he wasn't a real artist. He was just pop fluff. And there were plenty of no-talent acts from the 60s and 70s. Terry Jacks was worse than anything the MTV era produced.
Elton: “Thoje whippersnappers jusht don’t know how to make good mujic any more! Get off my manicured lawn!”
Milli Vanilli for one...
and killed the concept of the Rock band.
Looks became a heck of a lot more important during the video era.
I don’t think musicians like Billy Joel or Elton John for that matter would have a prayer at superstardom these days. These recording companies learned that it is much easier to sell sex appeal w/o musical talent than it is the other way around (for the most part).
Did he name names? Almost anything in the gangsta rap genre would fit the bill. I do not recall MTV doing much promotion of that European crap known as “industrial” or “death” metal.
Absolutely agree with him. MTV started around 1981, I was around 16 and I noticed it right away. The music just took an epic nose dive. I think the reason is before MTV, records were sold on how good they were. When MTV came along, the music industry discovered they would also sell if it was advertised in a video that was played in heavy rotation. Basically sight took over sound to sell music and they realized “Hey, why invest in a band when all we have to do is invest in a single video”. So all these manufactured puppets started popping up, like Madonna and they hired pro musicians who would write and record music for her and she would merely lip synch to it on video and it was played constantly on Empty-V. And it really never stopped, even when MTV went down the tubes. Sure you had some good bands that squeezed through, but it was never the same when the industry switched over to pure promo over sound quality to sell. I would say it’s even worse now.
Surely h must have been thinking of the early 80s song “The Order of Death”.
Here is the song, and you tell me? It is so bad, and why I like it. Lots of keyboard. Haha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ne9sRcSrM
Surely he must have been thinking of the early 80s song “The Order of Death”.
Here is the song, and you tell me? It is so bad, and why I like it. Lots of keyboard. Haha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ne9sRcSrM
I think Rap Music did far greater damage to professionalism in defining what was expected and acceptable in popular music. At least two generations have been raised on such base mediocrities. That is not to paint all with the same brush. There still are many truly talented young performers, in all forms of popular music. The British girl Adele is just one of them. She has her own style, one worth listening to if you like blues ballads.
Somebody once made available the actual sound Britney Spears was making into a microphone during a performance. It was pathetic to hear. And I’ll never understand the whole Michael Jackson cult. Stevie Wonder had (has) more talent in his little finger than Jackson had in his drug soaked and surgically mutilated body. Then there are the unfunny “comedians” who somehow seem to be making a nice living with no discernable talent. The descent into glorified mediocrity isn’t limited to music.
MTV remained on music just long enough to force Rap down the nation’s throat.
Thirty years later, it’s still a festering boil on the nation’s ass.
Nothing did more in public to denigrate Blacks than rap music.
It’s disgusting treatment of Black women, and the glorification of gang activity, were it’s two most endearing qualities.
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