sex, reality, and hip hop n roll

MTV used to play music videos almost exclusively. Now MTV rarely plays music videos. What has replaced the music videos and why do you think that happened?

In response to this question I must say that MTV has changed immensely over the past decade, and increasingly so over the past few years. MTV itself stands for MUSIC TELEVISION; therefore you would think that the shows it airs are strictly about music. If you are thinking this however, you are wrong.

Most of the shows that MTV plays now are reality shows such as “The Hills, Exiled, Super Sweet Sixteen, and Paris Hilton’s My New BFF”. Not one of these “Reality” shows are at all like our everyday lives, nor do they have anything to do with music. Oh, but you can’t forget the fact that they all usually have background music during the show and a little side bar pops up to tell you the song name, and artist who sings it! That must be why it’s called MTV right? Well, to be completely honest I am getting quite fed up with this television network. MTV used to be where I tuned into to find the newest great hits, and enjoy an occasional reality show. Now however, I turn on the channel and hear Paris Hilton’s annoying voice complaining about how some random person (that the network specifically picked, because they think they will be entertaining) is not her kind of best friend material. Or I turn on the television and listen to parents and their kids tell each other about the sexual experiences on the show “Sex…with mom and dad”. To me this is quite appalling. I’m not a prude, I don’t think that sex is a bad thing, but I certainly don’t think that it should be flaunted by MTV for the middle-school and even elementary school-aged kids I watch during my afterschool program to see. I’m sick of listening to a third grader sing “Lollipop” by Little Wayne. Yes, the first few times are quite entertaining, but after listening to the 10th elementary school kid sing such a dirty song, it gets a little old and very concerning.

Again, please don’t think that I hate rap music , MTV, or sex before marriage. . . because I don’t. In fact most of my friends back home call me White Chocolate for loving the Reggaeton and Rap culture, but I am 18 years old and can handle all of the sexual messages sent my way. I just think that we need to censor the channels for kids a little bit more. Most of our shows are turning into pointless hours of well CRAP shows, and they are really setting a bad example for all of our young teenagers, and well, even us.