Why MTV Doesn't Play Music Videos Anymore

[Roberto Dinero]

That was funny as f*ck!

 

[Whitty Hutton]

I'm still tripping off an Asian girl with a British accent

 

[SuburbanPimp]

nah breh I don't agree. black markets, even the internet, come about to satisfy a need that's not met through legal channels. As the internet has aged and corporations have started to adapt, the digital purchasing community has grown.

When I was a teenager and when I was in college I pirated everything(cause I was broke, so regardless I wouldn't have bought the legit physical/digital copies anyways). Now that I'm an adult and have a job, I don't mind renting a new movie from Vudu or Xfinity for $4.99 or buying for $13.99, rather than downloading a torrent or from file-sharing site. Same goes with music if I bought retail cds, but I usually download off the blogs cause no one is making great retail cds anymore(and that's not stealing music since all those songs are authorized by the label for promotion)

I don't know bruh, even if the all the CDs were great. Why would I pay for them if I could buy them for free?

It sounds like you have sound reasons for "stealing" the music, but lets not get confused about it. Its still stealing regardless of what your motive for it is.

Its okay though, I'm in the same boat. I don't think I've bout a CD since Graduation. And I doubt if I'll ever buy one again

I get upset sometime about MTV no showing videos but when I think about the videos they would probably be showing I realize I wouldn't want to see that shyt anyway. I just record that Hip Hop countdown on MTV2 on Sunday and watch the vids I want and fast forward through the others.

 

[badvillain]

I don't know bruh, even if the all the CDs were great. Why would I pay for them if I could buy them for free?

It sounds like you have sound reasons for "stealing" the music, but lets not get confused about it. Its still stealing regardless of what your motive for it is.

Its okay though, I'm in the same boat. I don't think I've bout a CD since Graduation. And I doubt if I'll ever buy one again

I get upset sometime about MTV no showing videos but when I think about the videos they would probably be showing I realize I wouldn't want to see that shyt anyway. I just record that Hip Hop countdown on MTV2 on Sunday and watch the vids I want and fast forward through the others.

But like I said I don't "steal" music anymore; I download singles and freely released mixtapes to blogs, i don't even check for retail. And when I did "steal" music I had no plans to go buy the music in the first place, whether I liked it or not.

My point was that there still is a huge legal buying community, what I'm doing is no different then when friends use to make cassette mixtapes for each other. I buy or rent 95% of every movie I watch now, and I might even sign up for a premium Spotify.

The whole point is the people that are "stealing" wouldn't have bought the music anyways, and the growing digital buying community in time will bring label profits back so that theymatch or exceed profits from store bought music in the past.

It's not our fault they didn't realize people stopped wanting to over pay for a physical copy that would eventually break or scratch. As soon as they decide movie theaters aren't needed we'll be really eating.

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

Everything seemed to be on point. However, I have to object to that whole "my generation" claim;I was in the fifth or sixth grade when napster dropped, ya bish. Blame the nikkas born in the early eighties for the mass downloading that took place during that time period.lol.

that's who he's talking to you dumb nikka

 

[seemorecizzy]

people act like every album in da 90s was a classic or something with this "i aint buyin a album dat only has a few good songs" shyt
part of buying an album back in da day was the anticipation of whether it was gonna live up to the hype
plenty of albums in da 90s early 2000's were disappointin
nikkas are just cheap and lazy
no way around it

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I think the bigger question is what happened to mainstream radio? They used to play street singles all the time.. Now they play mostly fluff and street music is left to...the streets.

Same thing happened in the rock genre. In the mainstream they will only play shyt like Nickelback or whatever.

What brought this change about? Did street music stop selling? And if so, why?

 

[concise]

from the first thread I saw with this video:

Kind of off.

It's not about stealing music, it really is about you not needing to wait for MTV to watch a video. There would be no point with videos being available on the internet in greater numbers every year. They'd be scrambling to stay on the air if they stuck to that business model today.

Same reason why VH1 and BET don't...and why the History channel stopped even pretending to keep up any kind of academic approach on history and started pumping out stuff like Swamp People and Ice Road Truckers...

it's all about the goddamn money - YouTube

Big Sean - Mula - Detroit - YouTube

The people that run these networks don't care about the format the channels used to have, it's all about what's gonna garner viewers and sell ads TODAY...music videos and history docs stopped drawing

And people have been complaining about the lack of videos for years, it didn't just start in the last few years. Or even the last decade. When did they first launch Beavis and Butt-head again? Or The Real World?

 

[Brandsdale]

Napster ruined the game breh lol.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

gotdamn right im stealin music. and a young nikka aint have cable growing up so fukk a mtv

 

[AquaCityBoy]

fuse does and so does vh1

plus mtv got music video channel.

VH1 and especially Fuse speak to the very point of the video. When Fuse launched, it was trying to brand itself as the "alternative" (pun intended) to MTV, by airing more indie, underground, and hardcore acts, with very little rap or pop music in their rotations. They were also very critical of MTV for abandoning music videos, only to do the same thing a couple of years later, firing their VJs and airing anime and imported Canadian reality shows.

Now they've finally gone back to airing music videos, but they're now airing the same shyt they used to be critical of. Fuse in 2004 would scoff at the idea of Nicki Minaj or Lady Gaga or Katy Perry or Britney Spears airing on their network. Now every time you turn to that channel, it's a 12-hour playlist of those very artists.

And I'd not be surprised if MTV were running those music channels at a loss, which is why I can't hate on them too much.

 

[badvillain]

VH1 and especially Fuse speak to the very point of the video. When Fuse launched, it was trying to brand itself as the "alternative" (pun intended) to MTV, by airing more indie, underground, and hardcore acts, with very little rap or pop music in their rotations. They were also very critical of MTV for abandoning music videos, only to do the same thing a couple of years later, firing their VJs and airing anime and imported Canadian reality shows.

Now they've finally gone back to airing music videos, but they're now airing the same shyt they used to be critical of. Fuse in 2004 would scoff at the idea of Nicki Minaj or Lady Gaga or Katy Perry or Britney Spears airing on their network. Now every time you turn to that channel, it's a 12-hour playlist of those very artists.

And I'd not be surprised if MTV were running those music channels at a loss, which is why I can't hate on them too much.

Whenever I'm flipping through my guide, fuse always has one of two things on: "Nicki Minaj Takeover" or "Lil Wayne Takeover". I've literally never seen anything but these two shows on.