![]() However, we have our memories to keep us warm. What happened to the MTV of the 80s? According to some it’s been replaced by a commercialized monster. In the late 1980s, MTV began introducing non-music programming and slowly, over time, the flavor of MTV began to change. That is the year we were presented with the very first MTV Video Music Awards and suddenly the new generation had its very own awards show. So there we were in 1981 being brainwashed with new slogans that would define the era (I want my MTV!) when in 1984, MTV introduced something that would forever change the face of the music industry. Discovery was the most used of all the Space. We agree completely with her answer, “I AM proud of what it was like in the early days and thankful to have been a part of it when the M actually stood for Music not Moronic as it does these days.” In 1999, Discovery was also the first Space Shuttle to dock with the International Space Station, currently orbiting at 254 miles above Earth. In our recent interview with Nina Blackwood, we asked her how she feels about the direction taken by MTV away from the music. They served as the first 5 VJs (video jockeys) that introduced the videos played on MTV. Jackson, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn ring a bell? If you were alive and kicking (and watching MTV) in the 80s, they sure will. ![]() It served as the perfect song to bring in this new era of music and to begin the MTV legacy.ĭo the names J.J. The first music video played on MTV was “ Video Killed the Radio Star Oops, sorry for the momentary digression. Or whatever that wanna-be-beauty-queen-really-just-a-spoiled-brat-that-needs-a-beating show is called. What is left of MTV has little to do with “music” and more to do with pandering to the lowest common denominator – read, My Super Sweet Sixteen In fact, we maintain that the MTV of the 80s was waaaaay better than the MTV of today. But it did have tons of music videos, awesome VJs and music news unavailable anywhere else. However, the MTV of the 80s was nothing like the MTV we see today. Prior to 1981, we didn’t have 24-7 access to MTV, its music videos and VJs. It launched at 12:01 in the morning, ushered in by John Lack (then the Executive Vice President of Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment) saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” And so it began. On August 1, 1981, something happened to cable television – something that would define pop culture, change generations, and shape an industry.
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