About 12 years later MTV is killed off.

Every now and then I would go to MTV's site to look at their schedule of shows, and it's depressingly funny how unrelated to music it is. It's all just reality show slop. I am SO GLAD that music videos never died along with MTV and are still being produced and shown on Youtube.

EDM from 3am to 8am? I'm going to assume the audience is some variety of hacker.

The link to the TV schedule on the homepage of mtv.co.uk doesn't even seem to work right now, it just leads to a nonexistent page. Even though it's the only link at the top of the page.

They kind of died for a little while. I remember seeing Weird Al talking about how they didn’t make any music videos for one of his albums, I think mid-/late-’00s. Then when his next album came around YouTube had made them so important that they made some sort of video for every song on that album. They weren’t all fully produced like in the heyday of MTV, but they wanted to have something to upload.

I was really hoping for just a 5 hour deadmau5 set...

Club closed but the drugs haven't warn off yet.

Meth addicts who get lonely and like to have some veejay energy beamed their way

Sometime i just go and watch classics like Somebody i used to know and Virtual Insanity, some MV is a work of art.

Youtube now leads in showing music videos, having been previously used unofficially by fans uploading those videos, then record companies saw how that platform is great at selling music and so they followed suit by either doing it themselves uploading or use Vevo to curate their material.

It used to be MTV being music videos but as eyeballs went to smartphones and Youtube, and leaving even CATV behind, they're forced to rework their strategy by introducing non-MV content, like those reality-TV crapola, which only managed to repel the target audience, and partly contributed to MTV's slow decline.

Source: in two decades been watching youth transition from watching TV to PC to social media and Youtube to phones, and now this generation is largely glued to the phone.

Deadmau5 is the king of shit takes lmao.

There is so much good music coming out every single day.

Listened to the "top10" recently?

Seems fine to me 🤷

Top Global Songs on Spotify:

I mostly listen to weird instrumental music but I feel like pop has really never been more listenable at any point in my life. Much more tolerable than it was 10-20 years ago.

Not out of the payola industry there certainly is not. Hell, it would only be a distraction.

Michael Jackson

Katy Perry

12 YEARS later? I didn't realize we were looking at archeologically rediscovered tweets!

Tidal for comparison

Gotta fill every site with the same stuff as the site before it

I mean he might have other takes I haven't heard and they might be shit for all I know, but this particular one is about MTV not playing music. If you've watched MTV, you'd probably agree. Music TeleVision has been showing mostly reality TV shows for decades now. The comment from MTV was pretty much "hey we do play music! in the middle of the night".

They did have their by-decade music video channels here in Europe at least, but they closed those last year.

How does one find new music effectively on tidal? I try Daily discovery and mixes .. meh

MTV started to leave music well before smart phones were common place.
There's no reason it's not a successful app/etc today beyond boardroom/execs.

They work pretty good for me, mixes especially. Maybe try track or artist radios?

I dunno if it's still a thing but I recall there being a couple Vevo genre channels on smart TVs for a brief moment, MTV 100% could've been an app.

That was one of my favorite parts of Mandatory Fun's rollout, also knowing it was his last album on his major label contract it's a little bittersweet. I hope he somehow makes the time to give us another one soon, his pop hits polka medley that came out 2ish years ago was pretty good imo

More recently they added a new type of upload that basically functions as a livestream but for a regular pre-recorded video called Premieres which work very well for MVs and all kinds of announcements, anticipation wise it's fully replaced the MTV model lol

YT weekly for comparison: https://charts.youtube.com/charts/TopSongs/weekly

Plus we then perpetuate the idea that the internet is actually only 4 websites in a trenchcoat. Google and co love this because eventually more and more people will just stop visiting all of those pesky “other” websites that aren’t in their web of control and advertising. Here’s an AI overview that will tell you more without needing to visit Wikipedia or whatever

Yeah... it's why I'm so annoyed at the people desperately trying to turn Lemmy into reddit by copying every subreddit and posting its greatest hits. No idea why everyone seems to want to be "the worse reddit"

Websites are increasingly lacking identity.

At least they finally cancelled ridiculousness

VEVO!!!

I never got into MTV. What I miss is VH1's Pop-Up Video series. They'd play music videos, but with pop-up bubbles of facts and background information about the song and artist. It was so cool! I'd definitely watch that show again if it were revived.

I think it was Poodle Hat? I don't remember any music videos for Poodle Hat.

wikis the pedia

Eminem shot down the video for Trash Day, Al himself decided against a video for eBay because eBay was doing musical parody commercials at the time, and they rushed out one for Bob.

Daily discovery, far down the homepage there's 'Uploads for you', and any playlist or section that mentions new releases or spotlight (although Spotlight isn't catered)

The line "turn on the radio, can you blame them" is specifically saying that "current day" music is bad. It's a shit take by him.