~MTV~

The way first came on the air, I feel was very appropreiate for the situation. First they hav an actuall rocket launching at the beginning of the show. It has a little "man on the moon" planting a flag tht says "MTV" into it. Since the little space man "launched" to gt to the moon for the first time, MTV had launched on tv for the first time. Then, the first music video launched on MTV jus happens to be Video killed the radio star, by the Buggles (which to me was hilarious) seemed later in the years after to prove just that. I feel that in certain cases the visual element of the music video takes away from the actual song. The visual i feel MTV was trying to portray was a sort of "rocker" 80's type vibe with all the patterns and bright colors.

I very much agree with Pareles assertion tht MTv produces music tht looks better than it sounds. In todays world persentation is everything and I feel that by making something look good (such as the music video), the way it sounds alomst bcomes second best. I offten find myself jus watchin channel such as MTV nt to hear the songs tht come on, bt mainly to see which song has a new video, and which video looks the best.