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...Into Hell”—released in 1993—featured the extremely mysterious/not mysterious at all if you listen closely “I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” which will forever be immortalized in VH1 Pop-Up Video history...
...shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight to camera over the sound of rifle fire. Some of the eye-opening footage was used by Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11, and Gittoes' f?ted film has found a home on America's VH1 cable channel as well as at Melbourne's Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, where Soundtrack to War is currently playing...
...Enter MTV. That is, MTV Networks, which also includes VH1 and CMT. Unlike Napster, RealNetworks and Yahoo!, these guys are in the business of picking new music and getting listeners to like it. The key to the whole service, the thing that makes automatic sense, is that you don't use Urge to download albums or songs, but rather, to download playlists...
...Internet radio and RSS, it's a playlist that changes from day to day. Feeds can be artist-based - an "auto mix" for Eminem includes his work plus songs by other rappers in his league. Some feeds are collections of tracks from the network's shows, such as TRL, VH1's Best Music Week Ever and CMT's Studio 330 Sessions. Urge even includes the Informer blog series, with people writing about music and using downloadable playlists to illustrate their discussions...
...consoles, there’s a sense of 80s nostalgia that’s palpable, but not consistent enough to mean anything. Even stranger is that T-Pain was five when the 80s ended, so any nostalgia—intentional or otherwise—was most likely manufactured by VH1. That aside, the video isn’t original enough, or even racy enough, to be memorable. The only thing that distinguishes it from any other videos featuring rappers and scantily clad women is that they seem topical here. But that doesn’t make it any more entertaining...