make everything all right starlight 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 make them look again? ooh, like a virgin
i would say that 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, really was 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 just beat it he was the artist that mtv really needed. they didn t know they needed him, but boy, when we started to see those michael jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. then there was the domino effect.
suddenly you see prince videos from warner bros. do the same thing. tonight we re going to party like it s 1999 prince wasn t just materializing out of nowhere. where was he before this video was done? well, prince was a huge star on black radio stations. i mean, people he had a real underground cult following him. he was a very sexy, hot performer. the sweat of your body covers me can you, my darling, can you picture this prince loved the idea that he was taking his punk-funk music and turning it on to a white audience, and that wouldn t have happened if not for mtv. this is what it sounds like when doves cry when i was younger, i always said that one day i was going to play all kinds of music and not be judged for the color of my skin, but the quality of my work. i only want to see you i only want to see you
that were going on and evolve that into a pop career. 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 grls 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
immense shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and the 70s got murdered. in his life he s given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove that love is not dead, even though john is. you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don t really know where you re going to go from that point, you know, culturally or musically. for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. announcing the latest achievement in home entertainment. the power of sight. video. the power of sound. stereo. mtv. music television. we all are so excited about this new concept in tv. we ll be doing for tv what f.m. did for radio. at the time the world was saying, we don t think anybody is going to watch videos over and over. but we knew we had something special.