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(December 2003)

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Woody_streatham
Katherine posted:
Woody_streatham posted:

Lows: MTV Dance turning into an R'n'B channel.

Oh yes, ooh, this is one of my low points of the year too, don't get me started on this one.... they showed Eminem once, EMINEM? A DANCE ARTIST? Pardonnez-moi Monsieur? I don't think so. I was browsing the Dance section of my local independent record shop today (new and secondhand) and I didn't see ANY Eminem track on any of the Ministry of Sound CDs I was looking at, or indeed on the KISS or Club Mix CDs either....

And what's their fixation on playing Justin Timberlake every third tune in the daytime? Why do they only play the good stuff (i.e. PROPER dance/house/trance music) late at night? That 'Proper Chrimbo' tune shouldn't be on a Dance music channel. That is nowhere NEAR being a dance tune! It's ridiculous. Their daytime menu since 'Continuous Mix' was launched really has gone down the toilet.....


Proper Chrimbo on MTV Dance? How stupid. I haven't watched this channel for ages, but it really has plumbed new depths with this.

BTW fellow forumer Chris E (I think it was him) got an email back from MTV saying the reason for all the r'n'b is that they consider dance to be made up of many different generes.
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A former member
It's possible to dance to Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights, but that doesn't appear on MTV Dance. Annoyingly, almost every single music channel has R'n'B on it now.
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Luke
chrisb posted:
It's possible to dance to Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights, but that doesn't appear on MTV Dance. Annoyingly, almost every single music channel has R'n'B on it now.


That's because it's the most popular type of music at the mo.

Anyway: Highlight - Iraqi War coverage across the three news channels, Harry Hills TV Burp, Turn on Terry.
Lowlight - The prospect of crappy Xmas idents this year.
KA
Katherine Founding member
chrisb posted:
It's possible to dance to Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights, but that doesn't appear on MTV Dance.

Agreed, but a tune like that on MTV Dance with that devil DOG saying things like 'lets' get messy', 'shake your ass' and 'let's get it on' or even that dodgy 'dance, you little f***ers dance!' - they're so incongruous in relation to Kate Bush and Wuthering Heights!

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A former member
CPFC posted:

Lowlight - The prospect of crappy Xmas idents this year.


I don't think the Christmas Idents were crappy this year now we have them... just the prospect of them was.
KA
Katherine Founding member
CPFC posted:
chrisb posted:
It's possible to dance to Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights, but that doesn't appear on MTV Dance. Annoyingly, almost every single music channel has R'n'B on it now.


That's because it's the most popular type of music at the mo.

Maybe so, but it still shouldn't infiltrate a channel dedicated to another genre of music.

It's a bit like sticking a few Beyonce tracks onto BBC Radio 3.....

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