Word: kajagoogoo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...demonstrated an early appetite for nostalgia--witness That '70s Show and the Brady Bunch movies--and the network courted it with I Love the 70s and I Love the 80s, limited-run series in which moderately famous actors, comics and musicians riffed on mass-culture icons from Kojak to Kajagoogoo. The series riveted twenty-and thirtysomething channel surfers, as though tripping a Manchurian Candidate--like synapse. In just over a year, VH1's ratings jumped more than 100% among 18-to-49-year-old viewers. (Also, of course, recycling culture is faster--and often cheaper--than creating original entertainment...
...emergence of a distinctive and important art form, in which the filmmaker is given the raw materials to organize a structure that supports the music but remains the essential product of his imagination. The days of dismissing music videos as fluff will soon go the way of your Kajagoogoo cassettes. So stop complaining that MTV never plays music videos anymore, turn off “Punk’d”, and invest in these three DVDs. If not for their indisputable artistry, then for the simple satisfaction of robbing Ashton Kutcher of a little of his livelihood...
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