listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight, eight, eight! oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a sort of warm, safe humor. i love you guys. the kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood what a bad father. which at the time, and i stress at the time, was bill cosby as the shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon. the father stran
My, how times have changed. I see hustling, i see killing. Thats what i rap about. You can take me out the ghetto but you cant the ghetto up out of me, though. Its a tough time to grow up in. Nirvana and kurt cobain particularly reflect the angst. I learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people related to it. Boom there it is, platinum record. Country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. The honeymoon is over. Now we are down to real commerce. Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are. You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the Music Business in this country. Unskinny bop just blows me away 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 hair bands. Youve got poison, ratt,
- imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones could shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. - i see hustling, i see killing. that s what i rap about. - well, you can take me out the ghetto, but you can t take the ghetto up out of me, though. - it s 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 it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. - boom, there it is. platinum record. - country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. - the honeymoon s over. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the mus
- don t touch that dial. we re about to flip it for you. - in five, four, three, two. - tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. - there s a lot of things that we do that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - 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. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some
- no, baby - after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she exploded onto the music scene in 1993, with her album tuesday night music club. - all i wanna do is have some fun i got a feeling i m not the only one - radio has been so long in coming in playing female artists, so it s definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. if it makes you happy - female artists, like sheryl crow or liz phair even though they had success, they were still routinely marginalized within e every aspecect of thehe industry.y. ththere was nonot a lot of spacace in pop c culture where young women s thoughts, feelings, voices wewere respectcted or taken seriously. - i m just a girl - there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani. super girly, but then also kind of tough, and d in front of thisis band of all g guys. - that s all that you ll let me be