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What a Feeling: 10 Legacies of Flashdance
‘Flashdance’ was released 30 years ago this week — TIME looks back at the movie’s impact on pop-culture
Buckwild Update: MTV Cancels Show; Producer Speaks Out
After the death of one of its stars, the MTV hit will not return—but the producer may seek to continue the series
Cyndi Lauper Talks Memoirs, Music—And Seders with Springsteen
“Everything in life that you don’t understand opens up to you as you live.”
MTV’s Wildest Night: Best Moments From the 2012 VMAs
In typical fashion, the annual awards show pushed the envelope when it came to live performances, on-stage moments and red-carpet ensembles
Beyoncé to Direct, Produce Documentary…About Beyoncé
The singer has reportedly been shopping a doc to several Hollywood studios about her life and career. Move over, Katy Perry
I Want My MTV: Drugs and Money and Cows in Boardrooms
An alternative title for I Want My MTV: The Uncensored History of the Music Video Revolution could be Drugs and Money. As we learn in Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s splendid oral history, music video production fueled a …
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Dead Tree Alert: Are These MTV's 30 Best Videos?
This Dead Tree Alert is a bit of a cheat; there is no new issue of TIME magazine this week. But MTV turns 30 years old on Monday, and in the issue currently on newsstands, there’s a photo spread on 30 highlights from MTV’s 30 years on the air. And, for a bit more fun, time.com has put together a list of the 30 greatest MTV videos of …
The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos
Thirty years ago, MTV began to beam a budding art form — the music video — into homes across the U.S. TIME takes a look back at the most memorable clips from three decades’ worth of music television
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TV Weekend: Teen Wolf
Say what you will about what MTV: it is a channel that has always known what it is, even if “what it is” changes every three years or so. In its early years, there was a distinct idea of what an MTV video looked like. There was, with Beavis and Butt-Head and Daria and experiments like Liquid Television, an idea of “MTV animation.” And …
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The Dream of the '90s Is Alive: Beavis and Butt-Head Returning to MTV
Kids, you’re probably too young to remember it, but there was a time when it was considered somewhat outrageous to say that something “sucked” on TV and when mocking a channel’s content on that channel itself was unusual, rather than the default mode of 90% of cable. That time was the ’90s, and the prime examplar of that sensibility, …
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Is MTV's Skins Child Pornography?
In a fascinating front-page New York Times story this morning, Brian Stelter reports that some executives at MTV were worried that some scenes in the new teen drama just might be, and are ordering producers to edit some Skins episodes accordingly:
It is unclear when MTV first realized that the show may be vulnerable to child pornography
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Dead Tree Alert: Peeking at MTV's Skins
In the new issue of TIME, I review MTV’s American remake of raunchy teen dramedy Skins, which debuts Monday. Like the British series it adapts—too directly at first, its biggest flaw—it’s bluntly risqué and showily amoral when it comes to sex and drugs; it will keep the Parents Television Council good and busy for a while. It …
