We're in a day and age where we tend to be content with entertainment.
We allow mediocrity to fly through the skies and pierce our ears like a tone-deaf banshee. I'm talking about music, people.
We've gotten so used to allowing high school girls to dictate what is popular that even MTV has decided to sell out into a world of everything revolving around the age 16.
Sixteen and Pregnant.
My Super Sweet 16. Paris Hilton's Super Sweet 16 and Pregnant. You know what I'm talking about, these shows fill hours of precious air space!
To pinpoint an exact time as to when MTV started hating us is difficult as it would take a process of first desensitizing oneself to the current MTV product then cycling through their library of terrible reality and dating shows that have been produced within the past five years.
I will venture to say that it started sometime around the first airing of Laguna Beach. Back then, we thought nothing of it. A show about some beach bum high school kids.
"Silly MTV," we said. "There you go again airing another show that won't work. How about you bring back Sifl and Olly and we'll call it even."
Much to my dismay, Laguna Beach not only stayed on for three years, but also spawned the likes of The Hills. From then on, it became a parasite.
All of the music videos, the original content, the somewhat meaningful discoveries that MTV once offered a generation, were gone and replaced with an alien woman by the name of Tila Tequila.
As we all turned a blind eye to what was going on, a great new program like The Human Giant, a sketch comedy show, was replaced with something called It's On with Alexa Chung. I digress.
While the death of a dynasty has fallen before us, we should take this time to reflect. We can't forgive MTV of its sins, but instead do what our dear friends in N'Sync once did and say "bye, bye, bye" to a once great entity.
Music TV, you and your once great programming will be missed.
Now change your name.
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