MTV - classic or dud?

man strongo let me tell you 1 thing and then I'll get off this reminiscing tip. I'm in the studio delivering the spoken intro to that bag of piss you posted the video for above and I had what we call in recovery a "crisis of conscience," because I thought, the young hungry steve who screeched "bright light fright" like somebody'd kill him if he did it wrong & now doesn't even remember it, that young steve would fling shit angry-monkey style at the guy delivering that corny-ass intro. only then I thought, you still got the eye of the tiger steve! only now it's more honed in on for example do I protect my savings by moving them into offshore accounts, or do I take advantage of lax regulations in the real estate industry, instead of shit like, do I boge the 8-ball joe k left on the nightstand or will he pout when he finds out? and then I kinda meditated on that and belted out the rest of "crazy" in one take. true story!

i've seen that video about 900 times in the last 17 years and to be honest i never even noticed there was a song there so i wouldn't worry about it too much.

"Scenario" video >>>>>>>>>>> any other computer themed video of the 90s.

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the reason whiney is kinda right that 90s is better than now is that even if their music is better ford + lopatin could never get alicia silverstone in a lace-up mini dress to appear in one of their videos

actually at this point they probably could

http://i.imgur.com/0lePL.jpg

xp - yeah reading her wiki is p depressing although i guess shes in an upcoming amy heckerling movie so thats something

how did i never realize what a brilliant concept FASHIONABLY LOUD was?

lol @ the Lampiverse where Ford + Lopatin is our generation's Aerosmith

OK, I'm straight googling these four fashionably loud "win a modeling contract" girls and seeing how their modeling career is 12 years later

man, uncle kracker really leans into those turntables

lol @ the Lampiverse where Ford + Lopatin is our generation's Aerosmith

lol whiney im p sure that aerosmith is your generations aerosmith

anyway thats clearly not what i think, dont be retarded

i know, i was jokin too

GO AWAY, BAITIN'

i give the mods my permission to delete any sbs u accrue arguing w/ me fwiw

esp since i figure youll help me curate my marty callner directors label entry

yo,

can I just say that MTV's sneaky promos trying to get me to read Franz Kafka, Douglas Barthelme or Anais Nin didn't get me read a FUCKIN PAGE OF ANYTHIN

man jer bear was only 53 when he left us? dude looked about 105

Kelly Osbourne slouched in the audience of a VMAs in full clown makeup will probably be the defining image of the 00s

Man, Madonna performed "Hollywood" on MTV with Britney AND Christina AND Missy AND kissed Britney AND kissed Christina AND the photo was everywhere; but the song couldn't even chart on the Billboard Top 100, LMFAO

why did they dub this real world episode with a fake, non-copyright version of "Personal Jesus"? Did they snatch this footage from syndication or something. Vh1 has the fucking rights to play Depeche Mode all day long, this is an abortion

OK, I'm straight googling these four fashionably loud "win a modeling contract" girls and seeing how their modeling career is 12 years later

― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 2, 2011 12:17 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark

and???

i came up with jack squat u_u

Lord Jesus, You know how long I served You faithfully; how I taught Your catechism to the young and faithfully attended Mass for years. Please give me Photoshop powers immediately so I can make this .jpg I have in mind entitled "The Passion of the Whiney," ty lol bye.

is it me with a hot laptop on my tummy, laying on my back, watching debbie gibson on club mtv, air conditioner drying out my mouth but too lazy to get up and get water, because

the movement toward this jpg is pulsing through the air like common discursive strategies

I can't front I am like actually for-real pissed that there's no vh1 in this hotel.

debbie gibson just introduced a cure song on club mtv, this channel was fucking awesome

i'm watching my DVR'd version. I think the Vh1 thing is over

I still have 8 hours left if you wanna come over

man, why did Daria feel so alienated? like half her classroom is pierced alternatypes. Live in some real suburbs, buddy.

was there ever a time when jimmy fallon was funny

there was a brief moment

some ppl wait a lifetime 4 a moment like this

http://i.imgur.com/OEwRG.png

XD

why did they dub this real world episode with a fake, non-copyright version of "Personal Jesus"? Did they snatch this footage from syndication or something. Vh1 has the fucking rights to play Depeche Mode all day long, this is an abortion

― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 2, 2011 12:57 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Apparently it got really expensive for them to do that or something. I'd be interested to learn more. Apparently one of the main things holding up the DVD release of The State were the songs. When it finally came out, all the scenes that had pop songs backing them were now saddled with generic equivalents. Like the one where Ben Garant runs around town pantsless while trying to meet ladies to the tune of the Breeders' Cannonball, arguably the most famous use of that song.

Yeah, I get that for DVDs, but like can't viacom play these songs forever on the channel?

That whole thing is kinda weird. I have no idea why it should be so difficult to license a song for TV use. I'm not sure who is losing money here.

There was a show called "Trigger Happy TV" that did it, replacing an entire soundtrack with soundalikes, they did a really good job too. I remember searching fruitlessly for hours for their version of "If You Could Read My Mind"

Ok, so I just looked at the Amazon reviews for the Real World DVD releases and there are complaints about the music being changed there as well. So I'm thinking that MTV either

a. didn't have rights to use those songs as background music in perpetuity in the first place
b. at some point absolved itself of those rights (for example, they declined to renew on some contract or something)
c. they still have the rights to use those songs in broadcast, but whoever was compiling the content this weekend just grabbed a Real World DVD because it was easier than finding the original footage.

My money is on c.

If you put out a CD/DVD etc with a song (where song equals "the original sound recording") on it, you have to pay mechanical royalties to the owners of that recording. If you print up a whole lot of the CD/DVD/etc you're releasing, that can get into some money; a mechanical royalty is a per-pressed-copy fee. For broadcast you usually pay a one-time synch, but any money collected on rebroadcast is via ASCAP/BMI/SESAC and doesn't cost the licensee anything. If you have somebody else record the song, you still have to work out payment with the authors of the song, but not necessarily with the owners of the recording (often the label), who tend to drive hard bargains/walk away from the table if they don't get an offer they like.

So there's a sort of c (1) option to kkvgz's possibilities: that, when interested parties couldn't work out an agreement, The Real World resynched their master tapes. This frankly seems probable to me; do that, then master DVDs from the copies we'll be airing with the re-synched music & fuck those assholes who didn't wanna play ball, easier than keeping two sets of masters in the warehouse = how I imagine television ppl's perspective

(Finally, agreements to synch music to a broadcast show can involve clauses like "the terms of this contract must be renewed after seven years; if terms are not renewed, licensee relinquishes" etc, and given the state of the record business and how labels and bands change staff/go under/switch managers/etc, it is probably a huge headache trying to hunt down the necessary signatures to renew the license. idk about this though because I assume that the re-recorded versions would also need some paperwork done.)

Well, I don't know about Whiney's "Personal Jesus" stand-in, but on the State DVDs, the replacement songs were not re-recorded versions, but entirely new, generic songs that were just similar in tone and feel.

But thank you for the music industry insights. It's really cool to learn about that kind of nuts-and-bolts stuff.

sure thing! I should probably add a "this is how I understand it anyway I could be wrong about some of this because it's stuff you figure out/research yourself as you go, not stuff ppl sit you down and explain to you"

those armageddon residuals are really working out for you, huh

When it was released on BlueRay, they had to replace it with a generic bossanova.

Oh man, Steven Tyler is destroying all of my images of the rock and roll industry. I thought all this stuff was taught to up-and-coming rockstars by Yo La Tengo and David Cross.