ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! may i have your attention please? the dixie chicks. billboard s top 10 singles, all by black artists. i don t please everybody with who i am as a person. i love beyonce. is not a working telephone is it? empty shelves are all you will find at tower records. it s now out of business. three, two, one! this is a very special moment of the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! i will always remember new year s eve, 1999, going into y2k, seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by rem. it s the end of the world as we know it, it s the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine. it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be an apocalyptic decade. happy new year! we wake up, it s 2000, we are all alive, and we are in the middle of teen pop mania. boy bands were selling so many albums.
back when the rolling stones had shocked parents everywhere. my how times have changed. i see hustling and icy killing. that s what i rap about. you can take me out the but you can t take the of out of me though. is pretty ironic that people related to it. platinum record. country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. the honeymoon is over. now we re getting down to real commerce. are these girls crazy? yeah! [ music ] you may think of it as the channel that rattles your channel, occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes her children but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. mtv makes the hits. it s as if there was just one national radio station for new songs. in the 80s we have hairbands. poison, ratt, warrant. a lot of hairspray going on. there was a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not deep music but we have mtv pushing it so that s selling. when i
with the help of a computer the past is just cool stuff that you can discover and that s what a whole generation of new music makers do. the 2000 s are the age of the machine but that does not mean there s not a search for a soul inside the machine. imagine what it was like