Presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. He was shot by an unknown, at this time, white male. World is reacted with Shock And Grief to the first Rock And Roll assassination. It was like in one moment, the 60s and the 70s got murdered. And his life has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Were 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 dont really know where youre 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. The power of sound. Stereo. Mtv. Music television. We are so excited about this new concept in tv. We will be doing, for tv, What Fm did for radio. At the time, the world was saying, we dont think anybodys going to watch videos over and over. But we knew we had something special. Mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. You had a personal concert, all day. When you have the rotation of, say, maybe, A Hundred different videos being rotated over and over, On Mtv. They do a great job of exposing new acts. Ahead of the curve, they had a ton of videos in their inventory and that was what bas 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 Cant 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 Isnt Anything like the famous group that came from there. The beatles. You have got to understand, they were 20 years ago. We are 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. Dont you want me baby, dont you want me, oh british artists, all, understood how to use visuals, in a way that, i think, american artists didnt necessarily get that quickly. Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to hurt me a good song. Its a song that 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 durans managers and said we are 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 to up the ante with these clips. You know, we need to give this Channel Something theyve never seen, before. There are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. Well, excuse me. We like to call them tastefully smutty. When i, first, met duran duran, they were saying that they thought they looked like Rock Stars. So why not become Rock Stars . Why do you think were so popular over there . Well, i think there is a tradition that goes back over the past20 years, from the days of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Where british bands seem to be better at it, than the americans. The police have sold 4 Million albums in one year. Rolling stone chose them as Bestnew Band of the year. Taking note of the swirling, dreamy, soaring quality of The Sound. It was incredible to see them. And i couldnt believe what i was hearing out of three people. I was shocked. I once read that you were called the pink floyd of the 80s. What do you think of that . Were not at all. Were just were the cure of the 80s. The Holy Trinity of alternativebritish music is the cure. Depeche mode and the smiths. All three of them started out as these Fringe Bands that, by The End of the 80s, were selling out stadiums. Computer programmers . Or musicians . What are you then . Bank robbers. How does it feel to treat me like you do in the uk, disco did not suck. It never sucked. And bands, like new order, combined it with the Newsynthesizer Sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. And i still find It So hard to say what i need to say i like whats happening in Dance Places now. I think the music is becoming very healthy. Hi guys check out this side right here. Whatd you do . Tell me know you did it. Yeah. Get a little closer. Thats insane. Thats a different car. Thats the same car. No yeah, thats before, thats after. Oh, thats awesome. Make it nu with nu finish. I think i can. I think i can. I think i can. I think i can. I think. I can. If youre 55 and up, tmobile has plans built just for you. Switch now and get 2 unlimited lines and 2 free smartphones. And now get netflix on us. Its all included with 2 lines for only 70 bucks only at tmobile. We made Usaa Insurance for members like martin. An Air Force Veteran made of doing whats right, not whats easy. 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A smart way to wash your hands. Oh dont burn down the duplex. Terminix. It has done wonders for the saggingrecord industry. It has made overnight stars out of rock groups, whose records had been gathering dust. This year, the first since 1978 businesses finally up and the reason is Music Videos. We had no idea that Music Videos would have that much of an impact on the musical culture. It changed the entire dynamic of what you had to do, as far as promotion was concerned. You had to be a performance artist, as well as a musician. The intelligent ones recognize that its a marriage, between the visual artist and the musician, at this point. The man or the woman, who finds the right combination, will take it all. Put on your Red Shoes and dance The Blues when david and i decided that we were going to work together, it was pretty clear, to me, that david wanted to make a commercial album. I you know, now, im going to go make a pop record. But it was going to be his version of pop. My songs always tend to be impressionistic. Or even have a surreal quality to them. This album is the first time that i have really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach to some writing. Artists in the 80s and david bowie, for that matter, realized if you want to make it, you got to be On Mtv. But theres one group thats not happy with mtv. Many black artists who have been told their music doesnt fit the format. Thats whats happening. Were being sat in the back of the bus, television style. And there are other cable shows that form, they are going to try it. Mtv doesnt exclude black acts. What mtv does exclude is music thats not Rock And Roll. Mtv came out with no consideration on how to infuse black music into their mix. I am just floored by the fact that theres so many 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 would 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 . It shouldnt have color. And i dont believe in that. What i do, i dont want it labeled black or white. I want it labeled its music. 1983, motown has this big tv special, motowns 25th anniversary. At that time, thriller is out and thrillers doing well. But Michael Jackson Couldnt get billie jean On Mtv. When the rest of the world was going crazy and he cant get On Mtv . Michael jackson . Come on. When he does that moonwalk, if you were sitlting on the couch, by The End of it, you were on the floor in front of the tv. You couldnt believe what you were seeing. I would say that the Man Moonwalk is 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, hes bad. He knows how to dance. He is so sexy and so gorgeous. He is exciting. Michael jackson is the man of the 80s. Mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was Michael Jacksons label. Rock and roll, in itself, really, was the thing that broke a lot of rules. And when you are 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 dont play this. They had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. He was the artist that mtv really needed. They didnt know they needed him. But, boy, when we started to see those Michael Jackson videos. It was just unbelievable. Then, theres the domino effect. Suddenly, you see prince videos from Warner Brothers do the same thing. Party like its 1999 so Prince Wasnt just a materializing out of nowhere. Where was he, before this video . Well, prince was a huge star on black radio stations. I mean, people he had a Real Underground Cult Following and he was a very sexy, hot performer. The sweat of your body covers me can you, my darling, can you picture prince loved the idea that he was taking his punkfunk music, and turning it on to a white audience. And that wouldnt have happened, if not for mtv. This is what It Sounds like when the droves 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. Prince had a great androgyny. He blurred the gender line. He sings, he writes, he plays. Every time i see him, its just, like, really . Okay. I quit. When he plays guitar, its just part of his body, in a way that ive never really seen, before. And its not contrived. Its just its just happening. What was his music . Was It R B . You know, his music was just straight down the middle, mainstream, grab you by the throat and balls pop. We go down to the river and into the river at this point, a lot of It S about being there which is why we havent done too much of the video thing. A lot of it is it allows too much distance. Like, what our band is about is about breaking down distance. Bruce was all about Credibility And Intelligence and integrity. So, how would he translate his music and his attitude toward the world, to what seemed like this frivolous world of the Music Video . Bruce is not going to be next to a winking model on a sailboat. He ends up doing, essentially, an Inconcert Video starring a thenunknown courtney cox. Its like this weird recreation of something that, organically, happens in a Bruce Springsteen concert. If there was an artist in the 80s who transcended the Music Video, he is the guy. Hes the one guy who didnt actually need to do greatMusic Videos to, still, be a great artist. Hes Bruce Springsteen. It was great music. David bowie, mick jagger, billy joel, rod stuart. All famous, all rich, and all men. Rock and roll has been pretty much dominated by men, until the last few years. Youre a heartbreaker Pat Benatar is hot. Very hot. Three albums in the past three years, all million sellers and the latest album hit the top of the charts in just one month. Her style is defiant, raucous, tough, and very sexy. We are young, heartache to heartache, we stand it appears to me that the one onstage is what i would picture a modern woman to be. Someone, who is aggressive and soft, at the same time. Has a lot of strength and conviction. And um, can look good and still have brains. You would think that, in the era of music becoming a visual form more than ever, that it would all be about objectification. But there were a lot of strong women on that video screen. Meet the darlings of l. A. s new music scene. The gogos. Unlike earliergirl groups, such as the supremes, the gogos write their own songs and play their own instruments. They got the beat, they got the beat, yeah that was as punkrock as it got for me. To see girls up there, you know, not just singing backup. Or not just, like, standing in some cool outfit in front of a band. Like, they were the band. It doesnt matter what they say in the jealous Games People Play while the gogos have always managed to look like theyre having fun, they are to be taken seriously. They are the firstfemale group, ever, to have a numberone album. And they are at the top of a list of female Rock Stars, whose impact within the industry is stronger than ever. I thought her voice was extraordinary and cindy was a very good visualcontent creator. I mean, those videos were so colorful and fun. This march the 31st. It is also a monday. Some of you might consider it a Manic Monday. You would be interested in knowing there is a Hit Song of the same name and we are joined by the architects of that song. They are the bengals. You guys are are are very hot, yes . When the bangles came out it was like, oh, its another gogos. The bangles were like, uhuh, were not the new gogos, were the new beatles. Lot of people call that a 60s sound. Do you think so . Thats our main influence. We dont go in and consciously say, it just seems to be the way the songs end up sounding. Just another Manic Monday wish it were sunday there was always a certain amount of people who will never take women, as a group, seriously. I mean, its run by a very chauvinistic, i would imagine, Recording Industry. We concentrate on the music, you know, we dont really worry about those things. We just keep writing songs. I think that there was a little bit of an attitude, like theyre okay for chicks. They can play okay, for girls. We didnt understand why our gender mattered. Or why it defined us. People magazine, this week, says it will take an Act Of Congress to keep this woman from becoming a mega star. Whitney houston. I want to know if he really loves me whether she was doing a Dance Song or she was doing a ballad, It Kind of stopped you in your tracks because you just couldnt believe that one woman could be blessed with that much. With the looks and the talent. This lady started out as a dancer. Went to New York. Went to paris. Worked with bands. Came back as a single. And is she hot . This is madonna. If you saw madonna then, she looked just like the girls who hung out at a club called the funhouse. All the girls there had the Mesh Thing and they had the boots. And it was kind of a mix of Newwave Punk with this other dance sensibility. I think madonna was able to use that core of dance music, and use the style of the streets 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 . Whats left . To rule the world. All the 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 wearing crucifixes because of madonna. What do you like . I like the way she thinks about she acts like 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 shes strong. Shes 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 whats whats going to make them look, again . Madonna sang Like A Virgin and started rolling on the ground, people thought it was a Careerending Moment for her. In this wedding dress. Rolling around on the floor. It kind of stopped everybody in their tracks. Everyones thinking, what is she doing . And why is she doing it . But literally, by the next morning, she is the biggest star in the world. Madonna had no doubt. She was like this is happening, get out of the way. [ Me And You by barry Louis Polisar ] Me And You just singing on the train Me And You listening to the rain Me And You we are the same Me And You have all the fame we need indeed, you and me are we Me And You singing in the park Me And You, were waiting for the dark in the 80s, the videos were so expensive and so complicated. And you had to wear things that you would never dream of wearing, before. And at first, it was a lot of fun to really get dressed up and pull on that corset, you know, and just wear tons of makeup and create big, huge hair. You had to have that Sex Hair Kind of thing, you know . Im coming out after gold of a gold mold. Anne has a Welding Iron and she is like this Amazon Welder Woman or something. We felt lost in the theater of it. It got to the point where the videos were more important, than the songs. It did feel like, i cant steer the ship, anymore. Where is it going . You know . Where are we headed . I think, Heavy Metal is is the true Rock And Roll of the 80s. And Rock And Roll was, basically, music made by people who were thinking with their crotches. Heavy metal. It is not something new in physics. It is Rock And Roll. Loud, rude, it glorifies sex and violence. It hates authority. And adolescent boys love it. This is it. This is the hot stuff. Alan, turn it off for a second so we can talk. Shot in the dark you turn on your television set, and you see this weird, Beastly Presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. Where do they get this information from that i am satan . Do i appear to you to have horns . I know i am a bIt Strange looking but i dont speak like that. Critics say Theres Something seriously wrong with metal music. Outrageous, by design. That it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. Has Rock And Roll finally gone too far . Well, a growing number of people think so and today, they took their case to a u. S. Senate hearing. Their complaint . That Rock Lyrics and videos are crossing the line into trash and smut. We are asking the Recording Industry to voluntarily assist parents, who are concerned, by pol placing a Warning Label on music products, inappropriate your younger children due to explicIt Sexual or violent lyrics. In the 80s, these artists who were pushing boundaries in different ways were bringing those messages and images, into our homes. And that provided a political opportunity to push back against it. We can say theyre senators wives, you know, ooh, and they are messing around in washington but they obviously have some real concerns. There is a lot they do that i applaud because they are taking responsibility, as citizens. I brought along, two videos which i believe are representative the kind of presentation which have caused the furor. Got it bad, bad, bad, im hot for teacher who is going to decide whats a sexual content of a lyric . Whos going to decide what is obscene . Same housewives who who are spearheading the movement . I would tell you it it is outrageous filth. If i could find some way to do it away with it, i would. France felt i am capable of making decisions about the music i want to listen to. So the next witness will be mr. Frank zappa. The establishment of a Rating System, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral qualitycontrol programs based on things certain christians dont like. I think you should leave it up to the parent because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant. Yeah. Ignorance and educated. The women didnt get the Rating System they wanted but they did get a commitment to begin applying a printed inscription on the packaging of albums, cassettes, and Music Videos. Warning that they contain blatantexplicit lyrics. Good Rock And Roll breaks all the rules. Okay . Thats just the way it is. Thats the way it always has been. Elvis presley was not good for the children, either. Morning, everybody. Im very pleased to announce to Live Aid which, without a doubt, will be the Largestpop Concert ever held. Live aid was the brainchild of Bob Geldof and the two of them were looking to raise as much money as possible for the Famine Victims in ethiopia. When tomorrows 17hour Fundraising Concert starts, Sellout Crowds in the stadiums will be joined by a Television Audience of, perhaps, 1 and a half billion people around the world. Watching Live Aid on tv was my version of driving to woodstock. And i watched every second of it. To live like a refugee the great thing about Live Aid, It Showed that musicians, for me, seem to be the most altruistic people in the world. A group, whose heart is in dublin, ireland. Whose spirit is with the world. A group thats never had any problem saying how they feel. U2. When U2 Play Live Aid, things have changed. Rock and roll was getting serious. Music had changed the world. Bono could change the world. U2 formed ten years ago when its members were still schoolboys. Now, arguably, the hottest Rock And Roll band in the world. Their last album, the joshua tree, has so far sold more than 13 Million copies worldwide. U2, somehow, in the video age, were still developing and becoming a great band. And maintaining that kind of connection with people. And not getting the message lost in the medium. Spent the last ten years finding out how to be in u2. Spend the next ten years seeing what u2 can do. Breyers is always so delicious. I can tell that they used your milk, matilda. Great Job Moo youre welcome. Breyers natural vanilla is made with 100 grade a Milk And Cream and only sustainably farmed vanilla. Better starts with breyers. Hi guys check out this side right here. Whatd you do . Tell me know you did it. Yeah. Get a little closer. Thats insane. Thats a different car. Thats the same car. No yeah, thats before, thats after. Oh, thats awesome. Make it nu with nu finish. If youre 55 and up, tmobile has plans built just for you. Switch now and get 2 unlimited lines and 2 free smartphones. And now get netflix on us. Its all included with 2 lines for only 70 bucks only at tmobile. Ahhh get out of here mouse. Ahhh dont flex your pecs. Terminix. Seeing blood when you brush or floss can be a sign of early gum damage. New parodontax active Gum Repair kills Plaque Bacteria at the Gum Line to help keep the Gum Seal tight. 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Rap music began in harlem in the south bronx, on playgrounds like this one, where people would grargt to Spin Records and then, recite their own lyrics, their raps, over the instrumental section. The brakes was curtis blows biggest hIt Selling 680,000 copies last year. And hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. As a young kid, running around with a local dj crew. I watched the transition, from all the Disco Music that we used to play at all the block parties. So slowly, but surely, hiphop taking over. The Music Underneath Rapping is called scratching and its a process of using two turntables and a mixer. Making new sounds out of alreadyexisting albums. Thing that gave life to music in the 80s, for me, was hiphop. Because it took The Sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. A child is born with no State Of Mind blind to the ways of mankind because only god knows what you will go do the message was the first Hiphop Song that wasnt just a party song. It was talking about what was going on. It was talking about urban decay. It was talking about drugs, crime, prison. All of these things that were hitting these communities, really hard. Burglars, gamblers, pick pocket pedaler, even panhandlers it was, okay put that down. What had he just say . Pull the record back. Play that again. Dont push me cause im close to the Edge Everyone knew the game had changed. And it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rap rappers. When Run Dmc came out, they were taking Rock And Roll music, and then putting it together with hiphop and making Something Brand new out of it. Run Dmc Kind of led Z Zeppelinized hiphop because it was fit for arena. Knocking the scoreboard down. Aerosmith had sort of fallen off the map, at that point. And It Sort of brings them back into the fore, and also breaks Run Dmc in a much bigger way because then you start getting more white kids listening to hiphop. Run dmc latest album entitled Raging Hell has sold more than A Million copies in just 13 weeks. A first for a rap record. Their album is called license to ill. Thats a stupid name. Wake up late for school, you dont want to go you ask your mom please but she still says no hiphop was our baby. This was our culture. This was our music. We created it. And then, here comes the Beastie Boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. You got to fight for your right to party and then, when we started listening to their music, they really were funky and they could really get busy. So, we were like, okay, all right. Beastie boys come out. What people thought would be a pop hiphop group. No, they were straight hiphop. Beastie boys was dope. You know what i mean . License to ill really spread like wildfire. And introduced a lot of people to hiphop culture. Can you give us some definitions of the lls . Ll stands for ladies, love, legend, long, and lean, lover of ladies, redhot lovers looking for a little. Just a little ls. The guys only be talking about yourself. How much of a lover. How the women love him to death. You know what i mean . How they can how they can throw down. How good they can dance. How bad they are. Nobody better not mess with me all that kind of foolishness. They wont address the issues. The issues, being poverty. The issues being not having political power. You see what i am saying . All of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. Planet earth was my place of Birth Ra Kim Is singlehandedly changed the phrasing hiphop. He came to the world like a poet. I learned different rhythms listening to jazz. I learned different rhythms so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style. You know, not just a regular dum, dum, dum. I was in between, dum, dum, dum. What i am trying to do. Im trying to, um, Set Examples for the little kids. You know what im saying . Got to teach the babies, try to lead them in the right path. The summer the summer of 1987, Rebel Without A Pause comes out. It was a call to arms, it was The Sound of anger, it was The Sound of something boiling under. Public enemy literally said we want to be musics worst nightmare. Public enemys extreme politics has meant almost no radio air play, even on black stations. Its rap for a reason. They call it a mind revolution. A rebel in his own Mind Rebel without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. It was really a desperate call to have us being heard. You talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. Shouldnt you maybe be thinking about who are the people ive got out here . Havent you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. My mother standing in the Welfare Line the way you survive is crime my life is over so i might as well speak my Mind Ice T is the first West Coast Gangster rap. Reality rap. 6 00 in the morning, police at my door. Ice t did it way before nwa did it. Straight outta Compton Ice Cube from a gang called with attitude i got a Sawed Off Squeeze The Trigger and bodies are hauled off the Los Angeles Rap Group Nwa Drew Fire from police because its album straight Outta Compton talked in brutal and vulgar language about retaliating against cops for their antigang sweeps in the l. A. Area. Nwa gave us the gritty, grimy, gangbanging streets of compton. This is whats going on with us. As i leave believe im stomping when i come back boy im coming straight Outta Compton I Want My Mtv you can talk about videos, but in the 80s the actual sound of what Popular Music was and what was accepted as a sound, a Drum Sound or Keyboard Sound or bass line sound, changed profoundly over the course of the decade. She drives me crazy like No One Else she drives me crazy and i Cant Help myself coming to The End of the 80s, like watching a kaleidoscope. You open it up and you see a little bit of everything. The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together it was the time when everybody was getting involved and everybody was expressing themselves loudly. We are having the best time ever. Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never Gonna Run around and desert you every audience needs to get fed. You know, wed fed the pop audience. But wheres the Rock N Roll . Oh, were halfway there oh, Living On A Prayer take my hand well make it i swear Bon Jovi comes in with a huge record. Pour some sugar on me def leppard. Fantastic record. Pour some sugar on me and that begins to bring that kind of music back. Pour your sugar on me at The End of the 80s, everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously. Something new needs to happen here, and its got to be realsounding, 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 werent looking to fit in to what was being played On Mtv or what was being played on radio. I can 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 i got my spine ive got my Orange Crush the way that Peter Buck played guitar and the way that stipe sang where The Voice was incredible but you couldnt quite figure out what he was saying, it just made them more alluring and mysterious, you could get why that band would become huge. It wasnt New Wave, it wasnt a new romantic. They started calling it alternative music. Its The End of the world as we know it its The End of the world as we know it time i had some time alone and i feel fine fine fine fine fine you know, this is the thing about the 80s. Everyone thinks its about crazy haircuts, lots of makeup, insane clothes, and it was. But the thing about this music that lasts is that their songs were so good. You can go back and listen to those records, from the engineering to the musicianship to the writing and to the performance of it. It surpasses most music. Everybody had a story, and they wanted to tell it. The artists that were coming through the tv and into your lives. Everybody wants to rule the world ill say that the music of the 80s is more effective than what came to us in the 60s simply because all of us were included this time. No decade was more effective in dance music, in politics, in different genres than the 80s. There will never, ever be another decade like it, ever. Everybody wants to rule the world theres a room where the Light Wont find you Holding Hands while the walls come tumbling down when they do ill be right behind you so glad weve almost made It So sad they have to fade it Everybody Wants To Rule The World imagine what it was like back when The Rolling Stones could shock parents everywhere. My, how times have changed. I see hustling. I see killing. Thats what i rap about. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you cant take the ghetto up out of me, dog. Its a tough time to grow up in. And Nirvana And Kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. I learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people related to it. Boom, there it is, platinum record. Country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. The honeymoons over. Now were getting down to real commerce. Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are