Oh, I'm not saying I know culture any better than anybody else, I'm just saying that MTV seems to be very safe and pedestrian ... then again I'm not looking for MTV to be cool and progressive, that's not there thing anymore. However, most of the material nominated for the VMA's isn't, honestly, very good. And this isn't a class thing - popular music isn't the "Working Class" music. If this were really "working class" in today's America, we would see a lot more Spanish language songs and a lot more hard rock/metal. So don't try to make this sound like an elitist argument. I have enough pop music in my collection to so that I've never had the indie-than-thou mentality, just there is so much better pop music out there that I get bored when we get inundated with the Fall Out Boys and Plain White T's of the world. I especially dislike people who stop liking bands when they get popular - its unfathomable to think that when a band becomes big, they suddenly and instantly become bad. Of course, none of the bad bands in question were ever "good", so thats a moot point. That being said, kudos to MTV for nominating Amy, Peter Bjorn and John, Justice and some of the other less-typical mainstream fodder.
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Erik Gonzalez said on August 8, 2007:
Oh, I'm not saying I know culture any better than anybody else, I'm just saying that MTV seems to be very safe and pedestrian ... then again I'm not looking for MTV to be cool and progressive, that's not there thing anymore. However, most of the material nominated for the VMA's isn't, honestly, very good. And this isn't a class thing - popular music isn't the "Working Class" music. If this were really "working class" in today's America, we would see a lot more Spanish language songs and a lot more hard rock/metal. So don't try to make this sound like an elitist argument. I have enough pop music in my collection to so that I've never had the indie-than-thou mentality, just there is so much better pop music out there that I get bored when we get inundated with the Fall Out Boys and Plain White T's of the world. I especially dislike people who stop liking bands when they get popular - its unfathomable to think that when a band becomes big, they suddenly and instantly become bad. Of course, none of the bad bands in question were ever "good", so thats a moot point. That being said, kudos to MTV for nominating Amy, Peter Bjorn and John, Justice and some of the other less-typical mainstream fodder.