Music Diary Notes: MTV Turns 30 … What is YOUR Favorite Music Video?
MTV Launched 30 years ago today, on August 1st 1981. Over the decades, the music video art form has changed in some ways yet remains a product in service of a song. The channel itself has become somewhat of a joke in many ways, as in the late 1990’s the ‘music’ part became a minority share, and now we have a channel more focused on Snooki (Jersey Shore) and Amber (Teen Mom) than Katy or Kanye. But over the decades MTV has done many other things as well. While it wasn’t the originator of music videos as art and entertainment…