surreal quality to them. and on this album is the first time i ve really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach to songwriting. if you should fall into my arms tremble like a flower artists in the 80s, david bowie for that matter, realized if you wanted to make it you needed 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 do it they re going to try it. mtv doesn t exclude black acts. what mtv does exclude is music that is not rock and 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?
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. and 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?
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
john lennon was shot by an unknown at this time white male. the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and 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 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 fm did for radio.
adapt to a didactic kind of approach to songwriting. if you should fall into my arms 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 is 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