By the way, if you've come here thinking, "Well, Keith
surely watched the MTV Video Music Awards since he's so into music, and he more than likely has something to say about them," sorry to disappoint. I didn't watch them. I hate MTV. MTV has done everything it can to not play videos and destroy music as we know it. I'm sick of their hipper-than-thou attitude (especially you, metal-hand-gesture-waving Iannnnnnnnn "Salutations!" Robinson, there's a special place in Hell for you where all they play are the Backstreet Boys 24/7), I'm sick of them airing videos that show violence and sex and then turning around and saying that a video like the one for the Foo Fighters' "Low" is "too racy" for them (oh, please! Even though Jack Black and Dave Grohl are wearing dresses, they're still a
lot more clothed than Christina Aguilera is in
any of her videos... are you guys homophobic?), and I'm tired of battling all these little young punks who eat up MTV like it's the gospel.
I think the rallying cry of my generation will be, "I remember when MTV played videos --
good ones -- and not just from 2-6am. They played them all the time." Now it's all self-congratulatory award shows for videos they barely even played because they don't play videos anymore, 16,000
Real World and
Road Rules reruns every day,
Cribs and that gawdawful Ashton Kutcher with his gawdawful
Punk'd that everyone is saying is so wonderful (and I don't get that either -- the guy pulls off mean
Candid Camera pranks on his celebrity friends that he probably didn't even come up with, and suddenly he's the hero?).
For those of you who are still interested in seeing/hearing music on your music television, please check out
Fuse. They rock, even if they do play Simple Plan a little too much.