Rock and Pop

Pros: A lot of good videos can be found if you want to get away from TRL.
Cons: none

Right now, it's very hard to find a good video on MTV. Thankfully, there's MTV2 that shows a lot of great videos from the past and some good ones in today's world of TRL. Every week on MTV2, there would be an hour block of an artist's video collection....

Pros: The early 90s scene only lasted a few years
Cons: A lot of bad music at the time

Right now in this world of terrible music, it's very known all the stars you see today will be gone in a few years. Some music fans wonder why this decade starts off terribly with such horrible music. Well, every music decade starts off terribly where...

Pros: Good scene while it lasted
Cons: It was destroyed by imitators and labels

Now in this world of mindless, testosterone driven rap-metal; annoying teen-pop princesses; lame boy groups; and rap artists flaunting their riches like their all that, I found myself being bored by the current scene in music. Instead of going along...

Pros: Few good performances from Rage, Chili Peppers, and 'Nsync
Cons: Terrible award show overall

Since 1992, I've watched the MTV Video Music Awards for those years. Some were good and some were ok. This year's award show out of all of the ones I have seen in the past years is the worst one I have ever seen. Terrible performances, comedy was...

Pros: Good show.
Cons: None.

About 3 years ago, the most popular MTV show was born--Total Request, or now known as Total Request Live: TRL. I happen to be one of those teenage girls who tries to rush home from school to watch it. Mainly because my favorite band is part of...

Pros: Things will bound to shake up
Cons: The TRL thing will dominate in early 2001

As we say goodbye to the year 2000, some of us will wonder what's going to happen in 2001. Will TRL still rule? Will there be a revolution coming? Who's going to make a comeback? Who's going to to break up? What will be the biggest selling album...

Pros: Pop music won't die.
Cons: We're made fun of.

If you've read my earlier reviews, you'd know that I'm an avid pop music fan. And rightfully so, because I'm a 14 year old girl...with a passion for the music created by the beautiful Backstreet Boys. But I really don't think that I'm your...

Pros: The U.K. scene
Cons: The rest of the genre is full of mediocrity

In the late 1990s, the Alternative genre had died and turned into another genre called Modern Rock. Now in the year 2000, the whole genre has become boring, predictable, and full of cliches. Really it's a genre that is filled with a bunch of bands that...

Pros: loveline
Cons: everything else

Did video kill the radio star? Yes, but it was inevitable. The very premise of music videos go hand in hand in creating a fashion image never before seen in popular music.

In the beginning, music television seemed to inspire creativity for...

Pros: It's nothing more than a fad
Cons: A really terrible era in music and pop culture

In this current era where style has taken over substance, I decided to examine how this whole TRL era started. In the past few years, there's been a lot of acts that had brought a lot of music that has style but little or no content at all. Of course,...

Pros: A lot of artists made a bunch of brilliant videos
Cons: none

Back in the early 80s, videos were known as an artform and most of them weren't used to promote singles or albums. What many of those videomakers were trying to do was listen to music in a different by looking at it.

Devo: These...

Pros: Selling out could be a survival move
Cons: A lot of criticism from a bunch of people

Since the beginning of Rock N' Roll, there's always been the issue of "selling out". Sometimes, selling out is a good thing and it's also a bad thing. But it really depends on what the artist or band is doing.

In the late 1960s,...

Pros: There is good music out there!!!
Cons: Where is it?????????????

I need to talk about the state of music today. In this era commonly known by several epinions reviewers as the TRL era, there is just a general unfortunate trend of shallow, unimpressive music geared toward and driven by the teeny-bopper, TRL/MTV...

Pros: Good entertainment
Cons: Too much is a bad thing

I hated pop. My friend (who happens to be Ryan101) is a pop music junkie. Hanging around with him too much I got sucked into the world of teeny-bopping, heartbreak-singing 30 year old male fantasies. I protested until I could protest no longer. How...

Pros: There some good videos from non-mainstream artists
Cons: Most videos are overbloated and very expensive

Since the beginning of the music video age, videos have been known as an artform and showed another to sell music. Now in the year 2000, some people including myself are wondering if videos had become too much of a product and not enough input on art....