Word: mtv
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...know it’s good that children in these two towns can fly through information on the Internet and gain an understanding of the world outside their 20-mile-wide lives. But they haven’t gained anything from MTV or McDonald’s except for mass-produced crudeness and fat. Not to say that 40 years ago my father was empty on crudeness in his humor or fat in his food, but there is something excusable about the homegrown crudeness of second-generation seniors at the high school and fat-dripping burgers at the local diner...
...taught in South Boston for a while last summer. Southie has gained tolerance and diversity in the past 20 years. But as MTV and America have moved in, the neighborhood has lost much of its Irish character. It’s sad to see it go, though I was never there to see it anyway, and have to content myself with reading about the old neighborhood in residents’ memoirs and undergraduate social science theses. The only evidence of the old neighborhood that I can still hear is in their accents—the parents’ are strong...
...notoriously fickle. To divine trends, designers at PBteen troll the malls and even the extreme-surfing shops. "You just dive into all those places. You watch teenagers," says product-development executive Sandra Stangl. BombayKids designers travel as far as India and China for ideas, but they also watch MTV. It's all very secretive. Ask about next year's colors, and Farley at BombayKids demurs, "We'd have to shoot you if we told...
...Mooney Suzuki blaring through his headphones, while Anorexic Annie was caught humming the Warlocks’ “Shake the Dope Out” at her locker. Though it was joyfully played repeatedly in the minds of rock journalists everywhere, this scenario never actually occurred. Not that MTV would have us know it—they put videos from each of the four representative garage bands into heavy rotation, letting TRL tweens get Stroked by someone other than R. Kelly on a daily basis...
...music awards in each country only highlight the conceptual width of the Atlantic pond. America has the Grammys, whose endless categories and strong leanings towards Latin and country music are all but incomprehensible to the British. The real barometer of U.S. musical taste is MTV, home to the Coldplay standard. But with the exception of Coldplay, even MTV’s slick populism doesn’t do much to bridge the waters. The problem is simple: no one in Britain will take you too seriously if you give a prize to Justin Timberlake or Kid Rock. MTV retaliates...