MTV is in dire need of a Delorean.
Remember the days when kids across America would scream into the cameras “I Want My MTV!?”
Well, that’s exactly how I feel, and I’m sure I’m not alone here.
MTV once encompassed Generation Y and revolutionized the music video.
But now it’s all about exploiting drug-induced teenagers and ostracized kids at fat camp on “True Life” and the ranting of spoiled little princesses on “My Super Sweet 16” when the color of their brand new Beemer doesn’t live up to their expectations.
It is safe to say MTV has definitely lost its touch.
People have even created newsletters expressing their absolute disdain for MTV. I’m seriously considering joining.
Doesn’t the “M” in MTV stand for music? I can’t recall the last time the channel showed a music video. And no, the 20-second clips drowned out by commentary from that Aussie chick on TRL do not count.
I really wish MTV would bring back the old-school dating shows, too.
Sure, I may have been eight years old and completely clueless to Jenny McCarthy’s sexual innuendoes on “Singled Out,” but at least the contestants waited until the cameras went off to get busy, unlike the majority of people on MTV’s dating shows today, like “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila.”
And as if Tequila wasn’t hard enough to stomach, now Dominico has his own show.
He seems like a sweet guy, but come on, he cried in practically every episode of Tila Tequila, and I’m sure it will be just as bad, if not worse, on “That’s Amore!”
And let’s be honest, I seriously doubt those “ladies” are genuinely interested in a whiny little waiter.
My biggest peeve is seeing Tyra Banks each time I turn on MTV.
I guess MTV doesn’t realize at least two other television stations are playing simultaneous marathons of “Top Model” each week.
I swear, if I hear Banks say “fierce” one more time, I am boycotting MTV.
And if MTV must play marathons all day, they should recap old-school “Road Rules” and “Real World” seasons, pre-Las Vegas that is. “Real World” just went downhill once Trishelle Cannatella graced us with her dim-witted presence and made Louisiana look even trashier than everyone already thinks it is.
And whatever happened to the animated shows, such as “Beavis and Butthead” and “Daria?” I can’t even begin to explain how heart-warming it would be to hear “you’re standing on my neck” again.
So until MTV stops soiling its good name with teeny-boppers and meatheads battling it out on the beach, I will just have to waste away on YouTube.com.
And when the apocalyptic day comes that I run out of “Undressed” episodes on YouTube, I guess I will just have to fill the void of classic MTV shows with bisexual pinups and Tyra Banks minions in the making.
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