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 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.
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 t 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 incredible but you couldn t
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 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
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 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.
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 in the purple rain prince had a great androgyny. he blurred the gender line. he sings, he writes, he plays. every time i see him it s just like, really? okay, i quit. when he plays guitar, it s just part of his body in a way that i ve never really seen before, and it s not contrived. it s just it s just happening. what was his music?