When Did MTV Become Boring

The question is not really a question. It is more of a statement about who I am now as opposed to who I used to be. Let’s ignore the fact that MTV stopped playing music videos a thousand years ago.

Back in the days of Martha Quinn I was one of those teens who enjoyed the relatively new medium of music videos. They were fun to watch and I especially enjoyed those artists who spent real time constructing a story to go with their music.

Later MTV introduced new shows such as the Real World and for a while I watched a few of them. Somewhere along the way I got bored and began to lose interest. I suppose that you could say that I grew up a bit. I just got tired of all of the nonsense, the focus on the college demographic.

I did my time. I packed a ton of fun into my college years. I spent my time crawling through bars and chasing women. I went to a thousand parties. Seriously, I hit the parties at my university and made sure to hit parties at my friends schools as well.

If you are familiar with UCSB you’ll understand that I spent many Saturday nights walking down DP. There were nights in which I crashed on couches, slept in cars and even a couple of trees. Somehow in spite of all of my carousing I managed to earn a couple degrees.

So I graduated from MTV into the VH1 demographic. I turned into a curmudgeon, an old fogey. I can’t really complain, I like this guy.