The Bootlegger's Chronicles

Where or where have our videos gone. Oh where oh where can they be?? Time and time again when more and more artists are hitting the scene less and less videos are showing up on our televisions. They are popping up online more frequently than not. But here comes Brother Two-Faced to tell Little Sis YouTube and other like her not to keep them up "without" permission. Excuse us??? So how the hell are we supposed to know who has a video out? Damn well can't depend on BET (Black Entertaining Trash), MTV (More Trash to View) or VH1 (Victims Here #1); they no longer care to show us anything but when they have "Video Award Shows" they expect the public to believe the "tallied votes" and not laugh and ridicule the "winners".

Who votes for these things anyway? The staff of the stations? They must be the ones up at 8 AM to watch the Jump Start show on MTV, pretty much the only show that has videos during the week. Maybe it's the 12-year-olds who are up in time to watch The Bratz & Yugi-Oh cartoons. They can catch the VH1 video countdowns where they change the hosts like underwear. As for BET do they even have videos anymore? Dang, I never thought I'd say that I missed the Midnight Soul or Director's Cut shows but I think those were the last of the "good crap." Shoot at this point I'll even take Yo! MTV Raps and back at this point. Anything to watch videos and see what's going on. Oh yeah, please don't mention TRL or 106 & Park because it's not the same when there's a coached audience there to make the guests feel good.

Just for the simple fact that these stations aren't giving the audience something to watch yet having annual video shows with winner - leaves me with the impression that these shows are rigged. I am an impressionable child of the industry. Bred not to trust what I see and or hear. Where statues at music shows and stars on street sidewalks can all be bought.

With a daily dose of fauxality shows I pretty much forget what video look like. YouTube is ok but after the fan-made vids get mixed into the actual pile of studio videos one gets confused. The cut and paste action is so well improved that many of them look like the professional ones.

After all is said and done I hate to say this but: I want my MTV back
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