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THE
EXPLANATION
It’s been two years
since this page was last updated, and to be honest, I thought I’d never
update it again. But when the MTV Top 100 countdown came along on New
Year’s Eve, I started watching it and I realized it was the worst I’d ever
seen.
Not only did most of
the videos suck but MTV now takes even less of America’s attention span
for granted. Most of the videos were cut off before the end, people popped
up in the middle to request the video (Hey, moron, it’s already on!) and
inane viewer comments scrolled across the bottom of the
screen.
I decided I couldn’t
let those people speak for the music videos that were on. And I had two
weeks until class started, so I went to my roommate and dear friend James
Wallace.
I proposed the kind
of safety net that anyone with an IQ over 100 requires to watch MTV – we’d
leave the docks of sobriety, watch the 80 videos I taped and review some
of them. Maybe the Top 40 but definitely the Top 20.
One productive evening
became two, two pundits became five and the hypothetical 20 or 40 video
reviews became all 80. We all had a great time with it, too, so we started
doing it every week. Our goal is to hit at least 10 videos per week,
brand-new and classic. There aren't always that many new videos out there,
but we've reviewed almost 200 videos in eight months and aren't slowing
down yet.
So if you’re sick of
idiot MTV viewers and smug Entertainment Weekly mini-reviews passing for
intelligent commentary, if you can handle a shitload of cynicism and if
you’re not easily offended, read on and enjoy.
--Andrew Hicks
THE
CRITICS
Andrew
Hicks, 21, is a recent graduate of the University of Missouri School
of Journalism. He’s been hooked off and on by MTV’s evil snare since 1993,
when Dr. Dre and Snoop were still cool. Andrew still doesn't have a real
job, is working on his first book and once drank half a bottle of
Everclear. He’ll never do that again. His homepage is at http://students.missouri.edu/~ahicks [defunct]
James
Wallace, 21, is a senior history major at MU. Single, he likes
long walks in the park, rainy days and leather. His future plans include
publishing the definitive guide to slackerhood, achieving world domination
and someday building a full scale replica of the St. Louis Arch using only
Q-Tips. His homepage is at http://www.missouri.edu/~c674791 [defunct]
Jeremy
Weingartner and Carrie Boulware, both 22-year-old MU students, join us
with random comments at various points in the narrative.
THE
RATINGS SYSTEM
**** = John
*** = Paul
** = George
* = Ringo
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