Posts tagged MTV
MTV is Now Just “TV”
Feb 9th
In a move to best reflect the reality of its existence, MTV has junked its 29-year-old logo, removing the words “Music Television” from it and running pictures of its reality TV stars in the giant “M.” According to ROLLINGSTONE.COM, “The shift seems to confirm what many have suspected for years: Following the cancellation of TRL and the success of JERSEY SHORE, THE HILLS and the REAL WORLD spin-offs, music is no longer MTV’s main priority.
“The people who watch it today, they don’t refer to MTV as music television. They don’t have the same emotional connection that, say, the people who are writing about [the logo change] do,” MTV’s head of marketing TINA EXARHOS told the LOS ANGELES TIMES.
Did the Grammys Over Censor?
Feb 2nd
Photo: Robyn Beck/ Getty Images
Did you see the Grammy performance featuring Lil Wayne, Eminem, Drake and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker on Sunday night? If so, then you know that CBS edited a lot of it. It almost felt like there was more silence than audio. But here’s the funny thing: There was almost no swearing whatsoever during that performance. The songs they were singing . . . “Drop the World” and “Forever” . . . are filled with profanity. But on the Grammy stage, the guys were skipping all the bad words themselves. Here’s a 35-second clip of the performance with the edits.
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Here’s the 40-second clip of the Lil Wayne, Eminem, and Drake performance without the edits. It’s pretty clear that CBS didn’t need to edit anything out. Read along with the transcript below and see why they over censored.
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0:41 — “Trying to get in where I fit i, no room for a nigga / but soon for a nigga / it be on, muthafucka / cause all the bullshit / it made me strong, muthafucka.”
0:50 — “And I’ma pick the world up and I’ma drop it on your fucking head.”
1:04 — “I could die now, rebirth muthafucker/ Hop up in my spaceship and leave earth, muthafucker / I’m gone.”
1:44 — “And I came up from behind and pretty much snuck up and butt-fucked this game up.”
1:53 – “Day that I leave it but I swear one way or another I’ma make these fucking haters believe it.”
2:42 – “So I don’t plan on stopping at all / I want this shit forever, man.” (These chorus bleeps were particularly amusing.)
2:55 — “And I ain’t even planning to call / I want this shit forever, man.”
4:55 — “So I don’t plan on stopping at all / I want this shit forever, man.”
5:30 — “You can’t put it out once we light it / this shit is exactly what the fuck I’m talking about when we riot.”
5:40 — “Out of our mouths now rewind that / payback, muthafucka for the way you doubted me.”
5:54 — “I want this shit forever, man.“
A spokesman for CBS, however, said the rappers were free to perform within a certain parameter that each entertainer had to abide by. CBS’ Chris Ender praised the MCs’ showmanship but said the explicit material made it difficult to broadcast without some degree of censoring.
“It was a rousing musical performance, but words were edited from the live telecast that didn’t meet our broadcast standards,” Ender explained, according to The Associated Press. “We have great respect for artists’ creative freedom, but there are certain things you can’t say, or sing, on television.”
-MTV
Read more: All the Swear Words You Missed During Eminem, Lil Wayne, and Drake’s Censored Grammy Performance — Vulture http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/02/eminem_lil_wayne_and_drake_get.html#ixzz0eRavUntw
The Best Quotes from the ‘Jersey Shore’ Premiere
Dec 4th
First of all, this show is not really a stand-alone show; it’s actually “The Real World: Jersey Shore.” Eight strangers (one more than the usual, but still), picked to live in a house, to find out what happens when Guidos stop wearing bathing suits in the hot tub and start pumping their fists. The Real World: Jersey Shore.
Being a Guido means “family, friends, tanning, gel.”
“How do you go in a fucking jacuzzi wearing a thong. At least wear a thong bikini. It’s more classier if you’re gonna wear anything at all.”
“I’m the Princess of Poughkeepsie” –Snookie (aka the next Tonya/Ruthie)
“My ideal man would be Italian, dark, muscles, juice head, guido. If I found that guy, I’d snatch him like that!” –Snookie
“I’m a bartender. I do great things.” –One of the Guidettes, we forget which one
“You have a pierced penis? I love it.” –Jwow (who’s got the fakest tits on the show) to Pauly D
“Now that’s how you get pink eye.” –This “Knocked Up” reference was kind of charming, and, yes, one of the Guidos really did get pink eye in his first week, presumably from sliding underneath a girl’s legs while dancing. You know those particles.
“Don’t like the spiked hair fool you. I’m not a bitch.” –Pauly D
“I felt like eating ham and drinking water.” –very drunk Jwow
“It only takes 9 pounds of pressure to break a nose” –we forget now who actually threw the punch and got kicked out of the club, but this line is definitely the new “Did you know the human head weighs 8 pounds?”
“I will cut your hair while you’re sleeping.” –Snookie in the coming attractions.
-Thanks to BroBible
Kanye RUINS Taylor’s Moment. Here we go again…
Sep 13th
After Taylor Swift — who is just 19-years-old, mind you — won the award for Best Female Video at the VMAs, Kanye rushed the stage, took the mic from her, and proclaimed Beyonce had “one of the best videos of all-time.”
I don’t understand how he can finally get his career back and can screw it up like that. Here is what MTV says was going on at Radio City after the incident:
People are going nuts in here. They booed like crazy when Kanye leaped onstage and stole Taylor’s thunder. He responded by giving them all the finger on the way back to his seat. During the commercial break, Pink walked by him shaking her head in disgust. Even the show producers gave him a talking to. Not surprisingly, he didn’t seem at all bothered by everyone’s reactions, grabbing his date Amber Rose and planting a kiss on her lips.
