MTV Sucks…Still
By Tim Somers on Nov 2, 2008 in Featured, General
Recently MTV made a bold move to combat YouTube by making music videos available online through MTVmusic.com. They screwed that up just like they screwed up one of the best things to be launched in the 1980’s.
Their decision to censor Weird Al Yankovic’s latest spoof “Don’t Download This Song”, which a reflection of how the music industry is treating fans like common criminals, has gone to far.
You might think that the song has some bad language, an f-bomb or two that caused MTV to drop in four bleeps, but that is not the case at all. The bleeps are over file-sharing sites Morpheus, Grokster, Limewire and KaZaA.
Here is an excerpt from the Don’t Download This Song lyrics:
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3s from file-sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA
When first listening I thought this was a joke and that was how Weird Al produced the song, but when I checked out the uncensored version that the Weird one posted on YouTube I realized that MTV has taken on the roll of the music gods and added the bleeps – basically selling out to the music industry.
Check out the Weird Al “uncensored” version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wmepTVM3I
Tim Somers
MusicHoncho.com
