15 years too late, MTV drops “Music Television”
Thanks to the digitization of our world, every aspect of pop culture has become spread so thin as to be almost totally unreadable
Funny, then, that MTV has become what it has. In the ’80s and through the mid-’90s, the network filled its programming schedule with music-centric material, from the always exciting “Yo! MTV Raps” to “120 Minutes”, which helped define the “Alternative” rock era in the 1990s. In those days, even MTV’s non-music programming was cutting-edge; though “Beavis and Butt-Head” seems tame by today’s standards, it was a magnet for controversy in its heyday. And although “The Real World” is singlehandedly responsible for the great shitsmear that is “reality” television today, it manged to remain culturally relevant for at least a few seasons.