[ music plays ] Michael Jackson is the man of the 80s. Man music that is all beat and talk. Its rap music. My life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence. It hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. Swaggart this weird, Beastly Presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. Move it back. Officer john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. Miller the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first Rock And Roll assassination. It was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. Man in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Were here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. Graham you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point, culturally or musically. Announcer for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. Announcing the latest achi
My, how times have changed. I see hustling, i see killing. Thats what i rap about. Its a tough time to grow up in, and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect that angst. I learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people relate to it. That is a platinum record. Country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. The honeymoon is over. Now were getting down to real commerce. Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are. You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china , occasionally her teeth, and hypnotizes your children. But what you may want to note is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the Music Business in this country. Mtv makes the hits. Its as if there were just one National Radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, youre getting a lot of hairbands. Youve got poison, rat, warrants. A lot of hairspray going on. There was a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. Its not really deep music
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that you couldn t have on network television. - peoplele are realllly tryg to do something adventurous. [both gasp] alall: channelel 7, shame e on. - this is morere a celebrbration of c culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on i inside. - therere s alwaysys somethg on t television,n, and sosome of it may b be ber than we e deserve. - [laughs]s] that wasas cool. [d[dramatic musisic] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eieight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horribible year never enend? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lolot of expererimentation. [gununshots] all:l: [quickly]y] seven, six, , four, three, two, , one! [cheerining] - anand the simimpsons, i ththink, in sosome sensess was s inspired by not necessarily a hatred o of television bubut a distrurust of a a lot of ththe ways in whichch televisioion was s talking toto us. - tv res