................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/etc/trl.html I guess you could say "Total Request Live" is democratic in the way that this year's election was democratic. The field of candidates is very small. And there are organizations behind them, not unlike the Democratic and Republican parties, who decided which candidates get promoted. So in other words, you can't just be Joe Fabulous who's releasing your little indie record and get on "Total Request Live." The record label has to decide you're a priority. Then the MTV staff have to sort of approve it, right? The execs have to approve it. Then, maybe by then, you'll get some kind of prescreening and then finally you get one slot. And it's the hardest slot to get. You have as much chance as an artist of getting on "Total Request Live" as a young athlete making the NBA -- no, less--making the all-star team....
