to songwriting. behind you if you should fall into my arms so glad we ve almost made it and tremble like a flower so sad they have to fade it artists in the 80s, david everybody wants to rule the bowie for that matter, realized world if you want to make it, you ve got to be on mtv. but there s one group that s not happy with mtv. many black artists who have been told their music doesn t fit the format. that s what s happening. we re being sat in the back of the bus television-style. and if pittman gets away with this and there are other cable shows that form, they re going to try it. mtv doesn t exclude black acts. what mtv does exclude is music that s not rock n roll. mtv came out with no consideration on how to infuse black music into their mix. i m just floored by the fact there are so few black artists featured on it. why is that? we have to try and do what we think, not only new york and los angeles will appreciate, but also some town in th
you were working as a waitress well speak my mind in a cocktail bar ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning police at my door. when i met you ice t did it way before nwa did it. by the early 1980s, new wave straight outta compton ice cube from a gang called with attitude is used to describe these sleek, dressy, cool bands that are coming out of england. i got a sawed off squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off don t you want me baby the los angeles rap group nwa don t you want me, oh drew fire from police because british artists all its album straight outta compton talked in brutal understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didn t necessarily get that quickly. and vulgar language about do you really want to hurt me retaliating against cops for their nwa gang sweeps in the do you really want to make me l.a. area. nwa gave us the gritty, grimy gang-banging streets of compton. cr
we are a couple of weeks into the new year. what do you hope will happen not only in 1984 but for the rest of your professional life? what are your dreams? what s left? to rule the world. star light, star bright first star i see tonight star light star bright make everything all right all of a sudden there was girls around that had the gloves with the fingers cut out of it and the hair wrapped up in the net and wearing the short skirts. there was like hundreds of thousands of jewish girls around the country wearing crucifixes because of madonna. what do you like about her? i like the way she thinks about she acts like with a different attitude that no one else has. she dresses how she wants, acts how she wants, sings how she wants. she does what she wants. i think her appeal is that she is feminine, she is herself, she is sexual. but she s strong! she s an individual woman. madonna understood the mtv phenomenon. she understood the vibe and the
when he does that moonwalk, if you were sitting on the couch by the end of it, you were on the floor in front of the tv. you couldn t believe what you were seeing. i would say the moonwalk was really one of the first viral moments that affected rock history. the next week thriller started selling a million copies a week. i like michael jackson because he can sing good, he s bad, he knows how to dance. he s so sexy and so gorgeous. he s exciting! michael jackson is the man of the 80s. mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was michael jackson s label. rock n roll, in itself, was really the thing that broke a lot of rules. when you re very successful, you try to make your own rules occasionally. as the story goes, cbs essentially said, we will pull every other artist we have on mtv if you don t play this. they had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. it doesn t matter who s wrong or right
prince or a string of other black faces. interesting. okay. thank you very much. when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv, because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? music has no color. and it shouldn t have color. i don t believe in that. what i do, i don t want it labeled black or white. i want it labeled as music. 1983, motown has this big tv special, motown s 25th anniversary. at that time thriller is out and thriller is doing well. but michael jackson couldn t get billie jean on mtv. she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene when the rest of the world was going crazy and he can t get on mtv? michael jackson? come on.