in a cocktail bar 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 that went to the band members and said, look, we really need
time i ve really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach to songwriting. if you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower artists in the 80s, david bowie for that matter, realized 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
ooh, my little pretty one, 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
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? 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.
angeles will appreciate, but also some town in the midwest that will be scared to death by 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