I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kin….
People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!.
I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4pm. I wasn't prepared for it - how ….
MTV has always been about redefining itself..
The videos are sometimes the only way for people across the country and different places to see and hear the music. They may not get the same radio s….
Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick arou….
Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or….
In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems….
MTV wanted to downplay our lifestyles and pretend we weren't getting the checks that we actually were, so I think that was the blurry line between th….
Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, a….
It feels like a totally different MTV now.Now they have all their own original series, and people are talking about going back to music now? It's all….
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every….
See, because I played behind the scenes so much I already knew what to expect. So I started getting myself ready. I was creating work for myself to d….
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money..
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore..
The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top t….
MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!.
Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV..
We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using collage and sound in a digital way. ….
God bless pop music and God bless MTV..
I was working as a staff writer at Rolling Stone. I had a friend who worked at MTV, and she called me and said, "They're looking for VJs for this new….