The end of Total Request Live: What does it all mean?

From <a href= "http://idolator.com/5091067/bye-bye-bye-what-weve-learned-from-pops-trl-era";>Idolator</a>

"You rarely see an era officially ending, and you almost never get the era to sum itself up so accurately, so now that we're five years past TRL's hegemony, let's try and figure out what it was like—and figure out what era we're in now."

hasn't this happened about three times already?

It's the end of an era! Eulogize! Eulogize!

Schoolly D, "T.R.L.: What Does It Mean?"

reducing the length of time music videos are shown on MTV from the middle 30 seconds to effectively 0.

It doesn't mean anything, TRL hasn't been relevant for years.

basically

was just about to say "barthel had a nice article about this today"

reducing the length of time music videos are shown on MTV from the middle 30 seconds to effectively 0.

o to the t to tha mothafockin' m

reduces my chances to see vanessa minnillo on air (not like i ever watch trl, but still)

the whole "MTV DOESN'T SHOW MUSIC VIDEOS" meme is soo tired and RONG, considering FNMTV which shows new videos every week.......

guyz, quit saying they never show videos, they show them once a week!

well, they show them everyday actually, but FNMTV Premieres new videos every week

I think they just show re-runs of it on all days but Friday.

Even as an unrepentant Real World/Road Rules fan, I have to say anyone attempting to defend the "MTV does too show music videos!" argument given what their current scheduling practices are, particularly on a thread talking about the demise of one of the last shows they had that did show music videos, should really consider making an argument that's winnable/defendable instead.

the whole "MTV DOESN'T SHOW MUSIC VIDEOS" meme is soo tired and RONG, considering FNMTV which shows new videos every week.......

― Hair Weave's Lookin Kinda Purdy (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:21 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

dude come the fuck on

BET, a station that plays videos all afternoon and then has a daily countdown show, still plays videos. MTV doesn't play videos anymore

i think only Sky carries BET here which sux

they show music videos online now on music television music.com remember

the TRL era ended up 2001. get with it

yet, ilm caught the bug a couple years later

we make our own children

out of wood

MTV used to exclusively show music videos and over the course of 30 years started to show them less and less, and now they play music videos but only very infrequently.

Can everyone stop challoping now?

Brainwasher sings a challopera.

So when the kids get home now after school are they watching reality shows instead or youtube videos on the computer or checking facebook or something else or all of the above (BET and country stations for some)...The further disintegration of the shared monoculture (if it ever really existed) and a sign of a possible decrease in interest in music, by the masses maybe

http://www.thefader.com/2017/09/28/mtv-new-trl-trump-dc-young-fly

People have been having a conversation about whether or not to support musicians who are incredibly popular like Kodak Black and XXXTentacion. Have you given any thoughts on how you will cover and promote artists who are known abusers of women? They're very popular, presumably, fans would request their videos and want them to be played on air. Are you open to doing that?

I'm not sure I want to answer that question. We want to be on what pop culture wants. When it comes to something like that, it's something that we would have to look into. It's a tough question to ask, I can't answer that question until something like that happens.

I ask it because it was announced that Noah Cyrus is going to be on your show on Tuesday and she just released a song with [XXXTentacion], so I was wondering if they were going to be on the show together.

Can't tell you that part. Surprise, surprise.

To pose a somewhat insane scenario — our president is an avid TV watcher. Are you prepared for him to watch the show and would you have him on the show?

I would love both. He's welcome to hashtag us and @ TRL. He's the president of the United States. Of course we would welcome him on. He's the president of the United States.