Kevin M., to Tom Wolper, July 30th this year: > > Look at it this way: TRL didn't die, it just took a while to regenerate. > This time, it's a chick! > >> >> OMG! MTV TRL FTW! >>> >>> >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/business/media/mtv-total-request-live-revival.html >>> >>> LameAF. >>> >> >> I can't think of a business that changed as much, and continues to change >> as quickly, as the music business. The recorded product has gone from vinyl >> to 8-tracks to cassettes to CDs to mp3s and now to streaming. The means for >> listening to music and finding new bands has gone from radio and music >> magazines to videos, then Napster, now streaming services. The idea that >> MTV wants to catch up by going to the past makes no sense to me. >> >> When MTV took off in the video era that was where young people >> congregated. Everybody could figure out what was happening by watching MTV. >> TRL was the last vestige of that era. It seems an awful long shot to me to >> try to bring back young people by bringing back TRL. >> >> Of course, tragic news like the Vegas massacre and Tom Petty spooked the whole operation, and a pickup game of -- anything -- would have been better than the crew's efforts. Vanity Fair <https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/mtv-trl-revival-episode> (link)
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