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 look and the sound. it all came together with her. everyone underestimates you. you keep giving them little surprises.
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 just beat it he was the artist that mtv really ne
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 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 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.
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. 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