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TRL is dead!

It is so nice to see TRL's "reign of terror" as aaron so eloquently put it coming to an end. Yes it is the end of an era. But it is a good end of an era. Maybe they will start showing videos again on MTV. What's next, will sitcoms return to TV? We could be on to a good thing my fellow sharkies.

Looks like TRL's reign of terror is comming to an end this November. Although MTV has jumped the shark long ago with this show, maybe the ending of TRL will cause the shark to jump back with the music industry as with no videos on MTV, the artists don't have to worry about mamking videos and can actually concentrate on writing good music.

TRL. One of the worse tv "shows" to ever hit. Actually, MTV sucks overall, so I can see why they'd think stinky, visual garbage was an excuse for the show. Its almost as if they went to every high school, every week, in america, picked out the preppiest annoying kids and just said, "Hey, you wanna be on tv?" Thats what TRL/MTV makes me think of.

Oops i messed up, that is the fashion show link. Here is the TRL link
http://www.dailymotion.com/*****/x66b7h_trl-hosts-kira-plastinina_people

That link doesn't lead anywhere.

The only good part of TRL now is the guests they have on the show now. I just saw Kira Plastinina the other day I love her. Check out the show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N...h? v=NSAT_VBSeio

Jumped day one..


Hey Scott, MTV 2008 is for kids and kids only..MTV 1988 was aimed more at the college/young adult crowd..

MTV went downhill when they altered there programming for the teenyboppers and ONLY the teenyboppers..Check out old MTV footage on Youtube and you will see what I mean..

I don't get all of these posts that say TRL sucks, and what happened to my MTV? They don't play videos anymore like they used to.

I'm sorry, but if you can still remember what it was like 20 years ago when MTV played videos, then you need to get a life people, your in your 30's! MTV is for kids!

This show WAS terrible from day one. Promoting crappy music on a daily basis. Obviously, geared towards people who don't know what real music is supposed to be. I didn't care for Carson either I thought he was a tool. kind of like Ryan Seacrest but less annoying.

It is without a doubt, that this show was the final bullet that destroyed MTV. The Real world had already taken over the weekends a couple of years before this show appeared, so the afternoons were still free for videos. I recall that when this show first came on, it was called just "MTV Live", and featured news segments and videos that fell into the alternative/rap genre of 1992-97. I remember tuning in one afternoon and MMMBOP from Hanson was on. My friends and I could not believe how wussed out this was.. then, BAM...all Carson Daly and teenybopper crap. Hanson were the warning sign, but I had no idea how bad things were going to get. I would love to get at least one full hour of footage from MTV from an afternoon from the summer of 1983 and beam it onto MTV, disrupting TRL. It would be so wonderful to see a ridiculous Eminem interview be interrupted by "Twilight Zone" from Golden Earring or "Promised You A Miracle" from Simple Minds.....

I knew that MTV would do that because the ditzy Paris-obsessed 15 year olds clearly beat out emo kids with brains on TRL...

Thats so true that TRL doesent show the full ***** anymore. I remember voting and praying that My Chemical Romance's new ***** Teenagers would make #1, and when it did I was so happy, but my joy turned into frustration when I only saw a few seconds of it. Then the ***** was interupted by fans clapping and an update from MTV News on Paris Hilton. I was so pissed I changed the channel. I hope MTV openes their eyes, eveyone is loosing intrest. MTV, you SUCK!

As much as I think Carson Daly is a tool, he was one of the reasons that made TRL big back in the day. He really did know about the music industry coming from a radio background, and he was likeable (i know, hard to say now) during those early years. But once he got popular and was blinded by all the money he got, he became increasingly obnoxious.

The ONLY good part of TRL ever since I was 10 was the summer of '05 when Mariah Carey's Shake It Off (who was expecting to be #1 until the vid retired) was beat out by My Chemical Romance's Helena, which was EPIC. You VERY rarely see the emo/punk/metal band beat out the pop/R&B/Britney GARBAGE. Then Helena stayed at number 1 for THIRTY EIGHT DAYS (OMFG)...until freakin' Kelly Clarkson and Behind My Hazel Eyes beat it. Which was crap because Helena is one of the most innonative videos I've seen since, um, 2000. And BMHE is the SAME CRAP REHASHED.
So yeah.