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 look and the sound. it all came together with her. everyone underestimates you. you keep giving them little surprises. if they get you all in one glance, then what s going to
something new needs to happen here and it s got to be real-sounding, more garage, less produced. i need an easy friend this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that weren t looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. i can see you every night eventually radio and mtv came to them. the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. college rock like r.e.m. was something new entirely. follow me, yeah follow me got my spine i ve got my orange crush the way that peter buck played guitar and the way that stipe sang where the voice was
when i met you by the early 1980s, new wave is used to describe these sleek, dressy, cool bands that are coming out of england. don t you want me baby don t you want me, oh british artists all understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didn t necessarily get that quickly. do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry do you really want to hurt me? is a good song. it s a song old people like and young people like. so i think the proof is in the pudding. buy it and eat it. mtv actually met with duran duran s managers and said, we re looking for kind of like james bond videos on location. and their managers are the ones
pretty one when you gonna give me some time sharona mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. you had a personal concert all day. crack that whip when you have the rotation of, say, maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts. here in my car where the image breaks down will you visit me please if i open my door in cars britain was ahead of the curve. they had a ton of videos in their inventory, and that was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. if you look at some of the groups on the popular music charts in america today you can t help asking where on earth did they come from? well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. they come from britain. the music isn t anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. you ve got to understand, they were 20 years ago. we re a new generation. a new wave. you were working as a waitress i
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. when he does that moonwalk, if you were sitting on the couch by the end of it, you were on