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...resurrection of popular rock in America diminished until a debacle called “First Impressions of Earth” put the final nail in the coffin. Perhaps no band better exemplifies America’s resistance to good rock better than British Sea Power. In 2005, MTV in North America banned the video for their single “Please Stand Up” because of the devilishly provocative lyric “a little excitement makes us wetter.” So even as British Sea Power scores Top 40 hits across the pond, in the US they...
...Box” ceased to exist years ago, and while MTV’s TRL is technically still on the air, it’s fallen a long way from the days of Carson Daly and the ceremonial “retirings” of its most popular videos. MTV and VH1 have both devoted themselves largely to reality shows, which are cheap to make and infinitely reproducible. Music videos today just do not exist in a TRL-dominated universe. A sly reference to these days gone by was included in Saturday’s program. In Jonas & Francois?...
...just been cut off from TV entirely since school started.RR: Did you watch a lot of TV back home?SC: Yeah. Every night, “[The] Daily Show” and “[The] Colbert Report.” And a lot of MTV and stuff that I’m a little ashamed about.RR: Do you think the writers are justified in preventing us from watching those great shows?SC: I don’t know how much money they were getting beforehand, but it probably wasn’t enough compared to what producers were making...
...Rock The Vote Rock the Vote, popularized by MTV's 1996 "Choose or Lose initiative," began in 1989 with founder Jeff Ayeroff's first campaign, "Censorship is UnAmerican." Ayeroff, then an entertainment lawyer, wanted to protest what he perceived to be a wave of attacks on art and freedom of speech. (He would later work for Virgin Records and Time Warner, TIME's parent company). With numerous music and Hollywood contacts, Ayeroff was able to make voting look hip. By 2001, the organization had registered more than a million young voters. A number of celebrities have appeared...
...Redeem The Vote The Washington Post called this organization "the evangelical answer to MTV's Rock the Vote campaign." Minister and gastroenterologist Dr. Randy Brinson founded the group during the 2004 election and hired the same media firm that marketed Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ to broaden RTV's reach. In 2004, the group organized Christian rock concerts in swing states and singlehandedly registered some 78,000 voters. For this year's Iowa caucuses, the group employed another technique to attract young evangelicals - free samples of southern cuisine like collard greens and banana pudding. Using...