Desperation

MTV has announced a new reality show- "A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila". Tila Tequila is a bisexual MySpace phenomenon and on the show she'll be choosing from among both male and female suitors. Just what the hell is the world coming to anyway? Do they not think that parents will be outraged and stage a smear campaign against the network? This thing will be yanked after one episode. MTV's ratings have been plummeting for years, and this move screams of desperation.

MTV has become a joke. During their heyday, you could turn it on at any given time and see a number of cheesy, low budget videos that were brilliant in their primitiveness. Remember Greg Kihn's "Jeopardy"? Who can forget "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo, Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" or bouffanted Wally Palmar's lisp in "Talking In Your Sleep" by the Romantics? Hell, even the Stones's best videos were the cheap-ass ones from Tattoo You. And one of the greatest videos of all time? Why Van Halen's "Jump" of course, which infamously cost $1000 to make. When video budgets got bigger, so did the level of boredom and rubbishness - an interesting correlation indeed. That's also around the time that videos began disappearing from the network, making way for crappy game and reality shows like the one mentioned above. Put yourselves and the rest of us out of our misery and just shut it down already.