The channel they call MTV is anything but these days. MTV Classic is what MTV was when it was born.
Put MTV Classic on in the background while working today. Few observations.
The channel they call MTV is anything but these days. MTV Classic is what MTV was when it was born.
I want my MTV!
80s music videos were the pinnacle of an art form that has all but died. When I was a younger viewer, I could watch for hours and just enjoy the videos for what they were: pictures to go with my favorite songs. These days, I end up more often than not wondering how some of these people kept a straight face while acting some of this stuff out.
Did we actually watch picture quality this bad and think it was awesome?
I can still name all five original VJs (which they no longer have) without looking them up: JJ Jackson, Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman. How this ability has helped me in my adult life I don’t know.
Everybody was so damned YOUNG. And I am starting to feel old. Billy Joel in Uptown Girl looks like a baby. And now I know that he and his leading lady in this video, Christie Brinkley, have been married and divorced.
Remember when they wrote pop songs specifically for movies, and then they made music videos for those songs with the cast of the movies (and movie clips)? “Ghostbusters” and “Who’s Johnny?” ring a bell? Watching Ally Sheedy sit next to a singing El Debarge is a blast.
The 80s were rad. Appreciated, but never duplicated.
