Posts tagged as mtv
Two Altbro Hipsters on MTV's "I Just Want My Pants Back"
By way of introduction, RJ Cubarrubia and Jon Blistein are two altbros living in Williamsburg. They’re both trying to be music writers. RJ and Jon consider themselves quite culturally aware, but also recognize that their existence is made up of run-of-the-mill hipster clichés—hipster clichés which are now reaching larger audiences thanks to things like Bon Iver, Wes Anderson flicks, Honda commercials with Vampire Weekend, the term “buzz band,” etc. Some of this has been good; other stuff... well. Now there’s MTV’s "I Just Want My Pants Back," a show about four attractive post-grads living in Williamsburg, rife with pop-culture references and a hipster soundtrack. As solid members of the target audience (though admittedly more sedentary and maybe less beautiful than the actual characters on the show), RJ and Jon came to "Pants" with morbid curiosity and an open mind, due to their deep love of TV. Also, they’re narcissists. READ MORE
The Commodification of Occupy Wall Street is On!
MTV at Zuccotti Park: the channel will premiere "True Life: I’m Occupying Wall Street" on Nov. 5 (a Saturday).
Brian Stelter
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The revolution will not be... something something.
What The Future Looked Like In 1995
There are many things about this 1995 MTV News clip about "the Internet" that show how much things have changed in a relatively brief period of time, but I think perhaps the most significant is that MTV figured people would sit through at least four minutes of footage about a single topic. God, things were different then. [Via]
On Things Just Not Working Out
"The payoff of surviving your 20’s has to be that when you make mistakes or fall down the stairs, literally or figuratively, you don’t think of yourself as a person who makes mistakes or falls down the stairs. There’s too much historical evidence that you are not always the one: sometimes I am the one, sometimes he’s the one. Your hyperhidrosis ain’t shit, girl, compared to the cystic acne over there and the IBS way over there and the narcolepsy in the back. But of course it’s all there is, until you become Larry David (the metamorphosis starts early, but the progression is slow and almost imperceptible (only remarked upon at random intervals); you won’t die of it, you’ll die with it). READ MORE
The Red Carpet at The Woodie Awards Is Black
The crowds have swelled on Sixth Street. This city is full. I am barely alive. Being slightly buzzed on caffeine and beer have become routine. The so-called utopia has caught up with me. READ MORE
Tiny Woman to be Destroyed for our Entertainment (One Hopes)
"MTV has announced it will put Snooki in a ball and drop her from on high on New Year's Eve in Times Square." Fantastic! I knew, what with the way things are going and all, that we'd try to reinvent public executions soon enough.
Who'll Get Punched on 'Jersey Shore' Tonight?
If only Brad Ferro, a 24-year-old former gym teacher, had, while drunk off shots the color of stop lights, hauled off and smashed in the tanned faces of someone named Ronnie or Vinnie, perhaps then he'd still have his old life. If only he'd taken a step back from that Seaside Heights nightclub bar, dropped his shoulder and thrust his fist violently into the famous abs of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino. Or, you know, if only he'd decided not to hit anyone. Perhaps then he wouldn't have been fired from his job, convicted of assault, forced to attend anger management classes and finger-wagged into begging for forgiveness in whatever outlet would have him. But Brad Ferro didn't do that. Brad Ferro hit Snooki instead. READ MORE
The Fakest Awards Show Of All Time (Of All Time!) Just Got A Little More Fake
Kanye West has made it official: The Twitter-happy MC will return to the Video Music Awards in a semi-official capacity next month, when MTV's pioneering effort in making the world's media pay close attention to things that are completely made up celebrates its 27th anniversary in Los Angeles. West, of course, spawned global outrage (and hundreds of thousands of super-hacky jokes) when he rushed the stage during an acceptance speech by Taylor Swift during last year's broadcast, an incident that I'm still not sure wasn't entirely planned, executed, and disseminated for the purposes of MTV attracting eyeballs to what was shaping up to be a pretty lackluster show. And hey, it really worked! Which means that the current over/under on the number of times said incident will be referenced on Sept. 12 is somewhere around 23. (Mostly I just hope that West's appearance will put to bed any and all uses of the phrase "Imma let you finish," because let's face it — "#ITSAPROCESS" is so much more versatile as a punchline.)
Very Recent History: Big Star's Influence On Katy Perry
MTV, announcing the passing of Big Star bassist Andy Hummel, provides some context for the kids: READ MORE
