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| * The ] track "Punk Rock Classic", from the breakthrough album '']'' features the lyrics "Put us on MTV, All we really need, Begging on our knees, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please." | |||
| * ]'s "]" makes reference to the pressures the network placed on visual image: "I went back home, got a brand new face / For the boys at MTV". Ironically, Michael does not appear in the video. | |||
| * ]' ] song "]" — at the start and end of the song, guest singer ] repeatedly sung the channel's slogan, "I Want My MTV". | * ]' ] song "]" — at the start and end of the song, guest singer ] repeatedly sung the channel's slogan, "I Want My MTV". | ||
| * ] named a song off the 1994 '']'' album "Go to Hell (Fuck MTV Mix)". | |||
| * The song "MTV - Get off the Air" by the ] was a protest against the content and style of music that dominated MTV during the '80s. | * The song "MTV - Get off the Air" by the ] was a protest against the content and style of music that dominated MTV during the '80s. | ||
| * ]'s song "]," contains the line, "Bring back ], ], way before ] there was ] and ], and music still on MTV." | |||
| * Lyrics to ]'s "Blow Your Speakers" include "Wrote a letter to the MTV/What's goin' on now/Don't ya care about me." | |||
| * Lyrics to ]'s "]" include "she turns on TV/guess who she sees/skater boy rockin' up MTV." | |||
| * Lyrics to ]'s "Don't Start a Band" include "And even if you make it all the way to MTV/I don't think you could take it all the bullshit and the greed." | |||
| * Lyrics to ]'s "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack" include "MTV makes me wanna burn flesh!/Having an orgy down in the satellite dish!" | |||
| * The opening track on ]'s ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' song with the same name include the lyrics, "Buy it at a store, From MTV to on the floor, You look just like a star, It's proof you don't know who you are." | |||
| * In the ] song "Without Me": "The FCC won't let me be/ or let me be me, so let me see/ They try to shut me down on MTV/ but it feels so empty without me" | |||
| * The band ] made a song called "Don't Wanna Be No MTV Motherfucker". | |||
| *In Canadian singer ]'s 2005 song, "We R in Need of a Musical Revolution", as an introduction she sings, "I'm so sick and tired of the shit on the radio/And MTV they only play the same thing/No matter where I go I see ] in the video/I want something more." | |||
| * In a reference to how some artists cater to MTV's audience, ]'s 2002 album, ''Kona Town'', featured a song, "B.O.O.T.", with the lyrics, "We're on the road you see/we're not on MTV/But when we get there/we won't shave our hair/or be fags like Creed" | |||
| * Rapper ] make a reference to MTV on his song "It Was a Good Day". | |||
| * In the song "Get Your Self Up" from his ] album '']'', rapper ] questions, "What is real ]? Is it MTV? Is it ]?" referring to the dumbing down of modern mainstream ] by major corporate record labels and these respective music channels. | |||
| * ]'s ] song "]" — at the start of the song, lead singer ] sung, "Destroyed by MTV. I hate to bite the hand that feeds me". | |||
| * The ] song "Just Let Me Breathe" on '']'' features the lyrics (written here as spelled in the lyric sheet) "A daily dose of eMpTy V will flush your mind right down the drain." The phrase "eMpTy V" is pronounced as "MTV" when sung aloud. | |||
| * A similar wordplay is made in 2007 ]'s song "Anesthetize" from the album '']'', where the refrain goes "Only eMpTy-V and cult philosophy". | |||
| * The band ] on their 1995 self titled release mentions MTV in the following line of the song "Escape From The Prison Planet", "And as featured on the MTV, the local high school lets out, And the town becomes anarchy." | |||
| * ] was a sharp critic against MTV. He wrote a satirical song called "Be in My Video", which can be heard on his album '']''. | |||
| * An alternate lyric to ]'s 1986 song "Trash " states, "And I saw you down at MTV / Well, baby, better you than me / Maybe they've got a special department there / For losers". | |||
| * In ]'s 1994 hit "Hook" John Popper sang about how today it seems that if a song is catchy, it doesn't matter if the lyrics have a message. He mentioned MTV in the last verse: "What you're doing to me / this MTV is not for free / It's so PC it's killing me" | |||
| * The chorus to Illy Oi! by ] says "Mtv said no so I'm just on fuse, everything to gain but nothin to lose." | |||
| * In a chorus of ]'s song, "]", she sings, "Why is everyone tryin' to be/what they see on MTV". | |||
| * In ], ] sings "It's alright, it's alright/if the planet’s split in three/cause I'll keep on selling records/and you've got your MTV". | |||
| * In a chorus of ]'s song, "]", Alexakis sings, "That's why I want to be a rock star / I want to be like all those guys on MTV / I just want to be a rock star / I want to make those girls on the real world fantasize about me". | |||
| * When ] ] ] participated in the Swedish ] by performing the song "Bo Diddley", which's lyrics talk about having a hit and being on MTV. | |||
| * The controversial ] band ] included a song in their 1994 album '']'', "MTV is My Source for New Music". | |||
| * In ]'s song called Shelter Me, a part in the song says "Tipper led the war against the record industry, she said she saw the devil on her MTV" | |||
| * The band ] released an album entitled "The Rock Revolution Will Not Be Televised" a pun of the MTV slogan "The music revolution will be televised". | |||
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MTV, the first and most popular music television network in the U.S., has been referenced in popular culture countless times. Other TV channels, TV shows, musicians, films, and books have referenced MTV in their works.
Usually, MTV is referenced in popular culture after events or material within the channel and/or its programming generate controversy or embarrassing events. Examples include the controversial MTV reality program Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which has generated much criticism and controversy for its indecent material and negative portrayal of Laguna Beach, California, the MTV Video Music Awards, in which Late Night With Conan O'Brien character Triumph the Insult Comic Dog mocked artists like Eminem and Christina Aguilera, and most notably, the controversial, MTV-produced Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show, where Justin Timberlake ended the show by tearing off part of Janet Jackson's wardrobe to reveal her right nipple briefly. Following the incident, the FCC launched a campaign against broadcast indecency, also fining CBS, which aired the event, $550,000. In addition, many late-night talk show hosts like David Letterman and Jay Leno and other entertainers and programs mocked the event.
In addition, other general reasons to include MTV in popular culture is to mock the channel for its move toward reality programming as opposed to music videos, or its decisions to promote "bubblegum pop" music. Otherwise, MTV is simply used as a pop culture reference to enhance the program or simply to support the plot, without any connotation or criticism.
In music
- Dire Straits' 1985 song "Money for Nothing" — at the start and end of the song, guest singer Sting repeatedly sung the channel's slogan, "I Want My MTV".
- The song "MTV - Get off the Air" by the Dead Kennedys was a protest against the content and style of music that dominated MTV during the '80s.
In television
- The satirical cartoon series South Park depicted MTV several times in its run:
- In the 1998 episode "Chef Aid", Eric Cartman tells Chef that he had seen the Alanis Morissette video "Stinky Britches", which is a fictional song created in the series, "on the radio, MTV, everywhere."
- In the episode "Timmy 2000", the MTV announcer describes the network as "the cool, brainwashing, twelve-year-old-and-younger station that hides behind a slick image", and is "so cool, we decide what's cool." MTV News as "the news that is singlehandedly dumbing down our country (which is cool)." Kurt Loder describes himself as "the oldest person in this network by at least 40 years."
- In the episode "Fat Camp", Howard Stern interviews "Tom Green" and "Johnny Knoxville from MTV's Jackass", as he announced.
- In the episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Loder and MTV News were once again depicted in a fictionalized interview with alternative rock band Radiohead.
- "Hell on Earth 2006" is a parody of MTV's reality series My Super Sweet 16, as in this episode, Satan has a huge birthday bash in Los Angeles.
- NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live has also made spoofs of MTV:
- In 2005, a skit regularly appeared covering a television program called Deep House Dish on the fictional "MTV4" television network, its slogan "The Alternative to the Alternative", in response to MTV establishing the Hispanic-oriented spinoff channel MTV Tres (tres being Spanish for "three") as well as numerous other MTV-branded channels targeted towards people who are of a certain ethnicity or prefer a certain genre of music, as the main MTV channel reduces its focus on music videos. The skit also appeared on episodes of Saturday Night Live in 2006 2006 and 2007.
In books
- In the Family Guy book Stewie's Guide to World Domination, Stewie gives a list of reasons as to "why MTV is the root of all evil".
References
- Script to South Park episode "Chef Aid"
- Script to South Park episode "Timmy 2000"
- Script to the South Park episode "Fat Camp"
- Script to South Park episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die"
- Script to SNL episode from 11/19/2005
- Script of SNL, 1/14/2006
- Script of SNL, 3/17/2007