They’re both getting shut down in November. Hahaha. I hate her.
Seriously though, the economy is crumbling, Roger Federer is the #2 tennis player in the world, and now, the final sign of the apocalypse is upon us: Total Request Live is going off the air.
And it’s about damn time. I remember when I first started watching Total Request (before it was Live). It was on in the evening, and it was part of a three-show lineup: Artist’s Cut, Say What (you may remember Say What Karaoke, a popular spinoff), and Total Request. It was 1997, and I was a mere boy of nine.
In 1998, Total Request merged with MTV Live, and Total Request Live was born.
I have grown up with TRL, as it came to be known. I remember voting via the landline telephone for the Backstreet Boys or Britney Spears. Once puberty hit, Carson Daly became more than just a host to me, and more than once, I found myself in Times Square, taking pictures with the Naked Cowboy. The Naked Cowboy is a cowboy that plays the guitar in his underwear outside of MTV Studios.
But alas, nothing in this world ever stays the same. In time, younger, less sexy hosts replaced Carson Daly, and *N Sync videos devolved into Justin Timberlake videos. I believe I gave up on TRL in about 2003, because it had morphed into such an ugly creature, and it’s taken the rest of the world only five additional years to come to that same conclusion.
For the past eleven years, TRL hasn’t failed in bringing us 25-second clips of what the public (read: a small demographic of 13-16 year old girls) deemed the top 10 music videos in the world.
Here’s to you, TRL. Amidst the many interviews with bands, celebrities and Paris Hiltons, and trivial games you like to play with your audience members, you always made sure to put aside five to six minutes to actually play music videos.
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September 20th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
You’re such a misanthrope. John and Sarah are going to kick butt in November–better get used to it now. In fact, most of America doesn’t have the same pessimistic view of life that you do. Oh wait, you’re supporting the “One,”who’s going to bring “hope” and “change.” Man, talk about naivete.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
“John” is actually “John McCain.” Someone showed him how to use a computer.