To me the sad part isn’t even the transition away from playing music videos- because in the 90s they had a lot of non-music content that was still kinda neat, like their animated shows, Beavis & Butthead, Sifl & Olly, etc.

My problem growing up was that cable companies didn’t bother coming out to the remote rural location that I grew up in (they still don’t, but my parents do now have satellite). Whenever we visited relatives, my sis and I would commander their TV and watch nothing but MTV; there was just nothing else on TV as exciting…

It’s a microcosm of how technological flash can blind people to artistry.

And obviously it was 1997.

Like how the MTV Movie Awards used to give the Lifetime Achievement award to like, Jason Voorhes and Godzilla. Then one year they gave it to Clint Howard and didn’t want him to feel bad by continuing the joke, so they never gave it out again.

1992, with Nirvana mocking Axl. I was 17, fwiw.

Man, the 80's was the peak era of stealing cable. We didn’t pay for cable for years, but always had it on. Your parents failed you.

Most of the people in U.S. couldn’t afford a monthly cable bill for most of MTV’s lifetime?? This will come as a surprise to hundreds of millions of people who were watching cable during that time. What are you talking even about??

To claim that MTV wasn’t a cultural cornerstone for Children of the 80's is ignorance. Yeah not everyone had it (my cable company didnt have the station for several years after launch), but yeah - you’re still wrong here.

FWIW MTV begins in 1981; by 1985 50% of American households subscribed to cable; at its peak just under 70% of households, today it’s about 58%. Keep in mind also that you don’t need to subscribe to cable to watch it and I’d say that the author’s statement holds.

I miss Adam Yauch.

Mayhem and mischief seem “cool”, but do you want to know what makes somebody a real Rock Star? Putting on a good show and giving the crew a drama free night.

Hard to blame MTV for wanting to continue to exist, though. They could roll the dice on playing music videos. Of course, I could also go onto YouTube and watch damn near every music video ever made, without ever having to sit through a song I don’t like, all for free, with limited ad interruption (no interruption if I…

I have to rewatch this movie, because I have no recollection of this scene. 

In 1990, the VMA’s were still must see, by 2000 I had stopped watching.If it was a comedian I liked like Sarah Silverman I would watch the opening.  

It’s bizarre that the VMAs still exist. I remember reading an AV Club article about the VMAs a couple years ago and initially thinking it was a retrospective, then reading further and being astounded that the article was about that year’s VMAs. I had just assumed the VMAs were long dead by then.

It’s kind of a pity (for his sake, at least) that he didn’t live a few years longer. WWII would have potentially been a gold mine for this guy (or gotten him hanged).

Filming started in November of last year.  Presumably they don’t need a ton of time in post-production since this is probably not effects heavy so some ADR stuff and editing work.  11 months seems reasonable for a project of this kind of scale.

Wait, there’s going to be a fucking Nine Inch Nails soundtrack for a Pixar film?

“unlike, say, Easy Rider, much of which is practically unwatchable today”