Video Killed the Radio Star

These days it's more like reality killed the video stars.

When MTV first premiered in 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star was one of the first songs they played. It was their way of saying that music television was the next big thing. And it was. MTV was huge, there were music videos, and lame game shows that now-big stars used to host.

Things aren't like that anymore.

MTV sold out. They traded in their declaration to play music videos for horrible, brain decaying reality shows. Very rarely does one see a music video. Even on the video countdown show TRL, they have resorted to playing only snippets of the videos.

Luckily stations like MTV2 and vh1 have picked up the slack of MTV's lack of music. I honestly do not remember the last time I watched MTV and was satisfied with what I watched.

The High School Musical movies have more music in them than MTV has had in the last 3 years.