RIP: TRL

[KYSportsWriter]

This show used to be awesome.

Now? Not so much.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tv_total_request_live

 

[DanOregon]

Finally, there is WAY too much music on MTV.

 

[Beaker]

I think TRL's ascendance pretty much signaled the death knell of MTV.

 

[mike311gd]

That, probably, was my least favorite show on MTV for the last nine years. I almost made a girl in college cry during a class discussion on MTV, and TRL bastardizing the music business was my main point.

She, a friend of mine, didn't speak to me for about a week.

 

[BYH]

I liked this show the first time. WHEN IT WAS CALLED DIAL MTV!!!!

I can't wait til 2013, when MTV comes up with a completely new late-afternoon show driven by viewer participation and videos...without ever referring to TRL.

 

[BYH]

That, probably, was my least favorite show on MTV for the last nine years. I almost made a girl in college cry during a class discussion on MTV, and TRL bastardizing the music business was my main point.

She, a friend of mine, didn't speak to me for about a week.

A sign of things to come, to be sure.

(And THAT is a way to hit 38K: By making fun of Mikey)

 

[mike311gd]

So's your face.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

So's your face.

Good comeback.

 

[mike311gd]

Thanks.

Now let's hear from a lunatic down on the street.

 

[KevinmH9]

Good riddance to bad rubbish, that is, TRL. The show began somewhat decent, but soon all they've been playing is the 50 Cent and rap. You never see anything but pop, punk or some other kind of garbage on that show. Even that, you hardly see music on there. They'll play about 45 seconds from each song on their "Top 10" and that's about it. I won't miss it.

 

[Dickens Cider]

Good riddance to bad rubbish, that is, TRL. The show began somewhat decent, but soon all they've been playing is the 50 Cent and rap. You never see anything but pop, punk or some other kind of garbage on that show. Even that, you hardly see music on there. They'll play about 45 seconds from each song on their "Top 10" and that's about it. I won't miss it.

The 50 Cent?

 

[mike311gd]

He must be taking the pot.

 

[Beaker]

So's your face.

 

[I Digress]

I think TRL's ascendance pretty much signaled the death knell of MTV.

I always thought it was the, you know, lack of music that signaled MTV's death knell.

 

[hockeybeat]

He must be taking the pot.

Well, maybe I told them that you smoke the ganja!

 

[Beaker]

I think TRL's ascendance pretty much signaled the death knell of MTV.

I always thought it was the, you know, lack of music that signaled MTV's death knell.

Well, yeah, but even though TRL showed videos, it wasn't ever about them at all. Having TRL as the network's centerpiece finally signaled that ratings were infinitely more important than the music.

 

[mike311gd]

I had a lot of issues with TRL, many of which have been mentioned here. But perhaps my biggest beef was with how the videos were selected. By no means do I believe these videos were chosen solely by the amount of "requests." There were other factors -- marketing, flavor of the month, sex appeal, etc. -- and when I heard of the videos' "retirements," that's when I knew for sure: This whole thing was stage to work as a big-business tool.

Back in the early part of this decade, I heard Carson Daly -- before Tara Reid; great, great eyes, by the way -- say, "Well, this is the last day for this video, ending its run of 61 straight days on the countdown, and it'll make room for Christina's next video ..." But, how is that possible? They've already got their videos selected for the next day? Absolutely. But there are rules.

At that time -- I haven't watched MTV, other than Parental Control, Next and that lame show IJAG told me to watch since my sophomore year of college, so things very well could have changed -- no artist could have more than one video on the top 10, which made sense, I guess, although it still does manipulate the countdown, in my opinion. So videos, per Daily's words back then, sit there and wait for their predecessors to fall off the countdown or "retire" so they can jump on the list. And many artists won't release their videos until they've got a spot on TRL. So I asked myself the question, again: How can these videos make the list if they've never been seen?

It's a huge sham -- well, it was -- and it really did infuriate me. Probably because I grew up watching MTV's Top 20, or whatever it was called, just waiting to see where Green Day's "Brain Stew/Jaded" hit -- usually 12 or 13. But every Saturday or Sunday, I figured the video was going to go down a little because a video, realistically, could never last six weeks on the list without a little bit of payola.

God, I hate(d) that show.

 

[BYH]

I had a lot of issues with TRL, many of which have been mentioned here. But perhaps my biggest beef was with how the videos were selected. By no means do I believe these videos were chosen solely by the amount of "requests." There were other factors -- marketing, flavor of the month, sex appeal, etc. -- and when I heard of the videos' "retirements," that's when I knew for sure: This whole thing was stage to work as a big-business tool.

Back in the early part of this decade, I heard Carson Daly -- before Tara Reid; great, great eyes, by the way -- say, "Well, this is the last day for this video, ending its run of 61 straight days on the countdown, and it'll make room for Christina's next video ..." But, how is that possible? They've already got their videos selected for the next day? Absolutely. But there are rules.

At that time -- I haven't watched MTV, other than Parental Control, Next and that lame show IJAG told me to watch since my sophomore year of college, so things very well could have changed -- no artist could have more than one video on the top 10, which made sense, I guess, although it still does manipulate the countdown, in my opinion. So videos, per Daily's words back then, sit there and wait for their predecessors to fall off the countdown or "retire" so they can jump on the list. And many artists won't release their videos until they've got a spot on TRL. So I asked myself the question, again: How can these videos make the list if they've never been seen?

It's a huge sham -- well, it was -- and it really did infuriate me. Probably because I grew up watching MTV's Top 20, or whatever it was called, just waiting to see where Green Day's "Brain Stew/Jaded" hit -- usually 12 or 13. But every Saturday or Sunday, I figured the video was going to go down a little because a video, realistically, could never last six weeks on the list without a little bit of payola.

God, I hate(d) that show.

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[king cranium maximus IV]

By the time TRL showed up, people had been saying that MTV wasn't worth **** for at least half a decade...but TRL really actually legitimately proved the point. It was at that point that MTV substituted music videos for showing the entirety of their current catalog on TRL, and so fail.

Damn. A decade old. Ahh, Meghan, you and me and the summer of '98, whatever happened to us...

 

[whatwoulddamondo?]

the day i stopped watching mtv was the day undressed was cancelled. this barely registers on the radar for me.