MTV is FINALLY going back to music! -

[Sam Sung]

Coincidentally while Prince died, MTV president Sean Atkins decided to put "Music" back in MTV. Starting with an all-day marathon of Prince music videos and movies, MTV plans to follow it up with reviving "Unplugged"; adding a new show of live performances and comedy sketches with "Wonderland"; a hip-hop competition that is supposed to be a combo of "The Voice" and "Shark Tank"; and a show where a team has to make a song in 24 hours called "Studio 24" (executive produced by Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun, unfortunately).


Many news outlets have reported on this:
USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/04/21/putting-music-back-mtv/83283614/
Yahoo!: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mtv-announces-return-music-day-235403618.html
LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...-unplugged-kendrick-lamar-20160421-story.html
The Wrap: http://www.thewrap.com/mtv-returns-to-music-with-new-live-performance-series-wonderland/
Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/mtv-going-back-to-music-2016-4
Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...the-music-returns-to-mtv-20160422-gocezb.html
Indiewire: http://www.indiewire.com/article/mt...cebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=IW_post


So is this decision good enough to #MakeMTVGreatAgain or is MTV beyond screwed at this point?

 

[Ronald Gaygun]

MTV is dead to me until they bring back Undergrads.

 

[The Knife's Husbando]

Wake me up when they bring back Liquid Television & Headbanger's Ball.

 

[DerSneedstrom]

Get rid of Franchesca Ramsey and maybe then you'll have some semblance of a start. That and play music of substance, not just the same shit played ad nauseum on Top 40 radio.

 

[Sam Sung]

Get rid of Franchesca Ramsey and maybe then you'll have some semblance of a start. That and play music of substance, not just the same shit played ad nauseum on Top 40 radio.

I think they already did because the new show about racism is now called "The Racket." Laci's probably gone too because her channel didn't put out new videos since last month.

 

[AnOminous]

Coincidentally while Prince died, MTV president Sean Atkins decided to put "Music" back in MTV.

Considering they've been out of music so long that they think the Fresh Prince is Prince, maybe they should just continue to stay the fuck away from music.

 

[_blank_]

Well, I've been unplugged from cable for about five or six years now, so it doesn't affect me in anyway, but if I did for whatever idiotic reason decide to get cable again, the only way I would watch MTV again is if it had the same kind of programming it had once upon a time, meaning, get rid of the majority of programming, and instead have it focus on VJ's interviewing artists and playing music videos - not having privileged rich teenagers tell me how to think and how to live one moment, then glorifying teenage pregnancy and fake-bake guidos the next.

But I'm sure that is the nostalgia glasses working on me. And considering how I actually work in multimedia and radio, and the last halfway-good song I've heard on our Hot AC station was Kongos' "Come With Me Now," I seriously doubt I would be interested in seeing whatever shit the soulless sycophants that manage that station for Big Daddy Viacom decide would be pleasing for my vacuous viewership.

 

[CornetteFace]

I struggle with seeing commercial TV's prime icon, MTV going back to anything resembling what it was back in the day.

And sadly I don't see there ever being an heir to it on TV again. Fuck, here in Sweden it's public service TV that has come the closest recently with a show where a music producer interviews a bunch of musicians in some chill old concert hall and they do acoustic versions of said musician's work. Honestly not bad TV.

But put something like that on commercial TV now and it would not draw viewers. Sad reality of it all.

 

[TheMightyMonarch]

Eh. No disrespect to anyone, but I get annoyed when people spreg over MTV not having enough music in their lineup.

This is the age of YouTube. What's the point of showing music videos on TV when it takes 5 seconds to look one up on the internet? Maybe it made sense to do that back in 1981 but now? Besides, MTV's lineup hasn't always been music 100% even in the 80s. Remember Remote Control? I agree modern MTV sucks but I think it's silly to single MTV out for deriving from their original purpose when pretty much every other network on TV is guilty of doing the same.

 

[WonkeyDong]

last mtv shows i can remember being good were the jackass related ones, cant wait for it to be good again

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

This is the age of YouTube

This. I loved MTV back in the glory days, but when I want to watch a music video, I go to YouTube. I don't have to watch an hour and a half of videos I don't care about to see the one I do. Though I believe music back in the 80's was a hell of a lot better than that shit on the radio today, so I can't imagine there's a lot of videos I'd even want to see.

 

[Checkered Spotlight]

This. I loved MTV back in the glory days, but when I want to watch a music video, I go to YouTube. I don't have to watch an hour and a half of videos I don't care about to see the one I do. Though I believe music back in the 80's was a hell of a lot better than that shit on the radio today, so I can't imagine there's a lot of videos I'd even want to see.

Pretty much. That, and if you want music that isn't that popular or easy to come by, youtube's usually better than MTV rather than sitting through hours of the same thing.

 

[ZehnBoat]

This is the age of YouTube. What's the point of showing music videos on TV when it takes 5 seconds to look one up on the internet?

maybe with TV you'll find some music video you'll like that you never thought you would have looked up?
it's why i like internet radio, you find a lot of interesting stuff related to what you already like, as opposed to youtube going LOL U LEIK PEWDIEPIE AND PONIES AND LADY GAGA???????????????????????????????????