i was reading the other day in a local newspaper that MTV "officially" dropped all music video programming and would be moving in the reality tv direction (a la jersey shore crap). Now, i know that MTV has not been marketing/popularizing music videos for quite some time. Will bands even make videos anymore? why?
At the risk of dating myself i remember the MTV revolution, it was incredible. I was a young teen when it started to really blow up. Will anyone miss music videos? will bands still make them for viral? in my opinion it will be a shame to lose that part of the music world but what does everyone here think? will music videos survive or make a come back? will anyone other than me even miss them when they are completely gone?

All of entertainment is changing. A big part of it is due to the Internet. I'm sure bands/musicians will continue to make videos for marketing purposes, just as they had long before MTV. Now, many bands/musicains can simply produce their own and put them up on YouTube, MySpace and the like.

I too miss the days when MTV & VH1 used to air music videos, as well as music based programs (Behind The Music, Unplugged, etc.). What I enjoyed more, long before MTV was the old Midnight Special program. Bands would perform live in a concert venue. They had every band from every genre of popular music on in one night.

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I thougth MTV was supposed to be about MUSIC!!! Gaah ! Even though i am in the generation of Jersey Shore sh**, I rather see music videos!!
I think bands will & should keep making videos.

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"being a rock star is the intersection of who you are, and who you want to be." -Slash

all those stuff mtv and vh1 used to air is still around (soundstage,behind the music, etc...) but on one of there other channels called palladia which is all about concerts and music videos (mostly rock and blues with gospel on sunday).


link to palladias website
http://www.palladia.tv/

i hope you are right, i like the videos but it is a big expense to make one... without an outlet that will further the bands exposure how long before that expense is cut. There is merit to making videos for the internet but i don't see how it will help the smaller bands gain exposure without the channel that is mixing in the relatively unknown groups videos with the popular ones.

this is quite sad..... those morons need to either go back to music television or change their name...... also, as for this jersey shore bull$#!t, i would sooner put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger than join in that jacka55ery ..... i wish i could have witnessed 90s mtv

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Well MTV has not relied on videos to draw in an audience in quite sometime. This is a roll of the dice but this is where someone else could step in or up (VH1) to change the direction of music.

As the first ever video so prophetically chimed -Video Killed the Radio Star and that it did. Mtv was able to dictate and run what you heard by showing what you saw. Soon it was just as important on how you looked and even maybe more than how you sounded. A band could be floundering in the desert for years and one video hit on MTV could send them right into mega stardom. For those who remember even if you really did not care for a song it could get played so many times a day you could not help but know every word.

With the music buisness in shambles it would be nice for someone with a little mor brains and taste to maybe take over and maybe even go in a bit of a different step and show maybe just a live cut by a band which is not expensive and put them into rotation and maybe a change will come.