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TRL. One of the worse tv "shows" to ever hit. Actually, MTV sucks overall, so I can see why they'd think stinky, visual garbage was an excuse for the show. Its almost as if they went to every high school, every week, in america, picked out the preppiest annoying kids and just said, "Hey, you wanna be on tv?" Thats what TRL/MTV makes me think of.

Oops i messed up, that is the fashion show link. Here is the TRL link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x66b7h_trl-hosts-kira-plastinina_people

That link doesn't lead anywhere.

The only good part of TRL now is the guests they have on the show now. I just saw Kira Plastinina the other day I love her. Check out the show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N...h? v=NSAT_VBSeio

Jumped day one..


Hey Scott, MTV 2008 is for kids and kids only..MTV 1988 was aimed more at the college/young adult crowd..

MTV went downhill when they altered there programming for the teenyboppers and ONLY the teenyboppers..Check out old MTV footage on Youtube and you will see what I mean..

I don't get all of these posts that say TRL sucks, and what happened to my MTV? They don't play videos anymore like they used to.

I'm sorry, but if you can still remember what it was like 20 years ago when MTV played videos, then you need to get a life people, your in your 30's! MTV is for kids!

This show WAS terrible from day one. Promoting crappy music on a daily basis. Obviously, geared towards people who don't know what real music is supposed to be. I didn't care for Carson either I thought he was a tool. kind of like Ryan Seacrest but less annoying.

It is without a doubt, that this show was the final bullet that destroyed MTV. The Real world had already taken over the weekends a couple of years before this show appeared, so the afternoons were still free for videos. I recall that when this show first came on, it was called just "MTV Live", and featured news segments and videos that fell into the alternative/rap genre of 1992-97. I remember tuning in one afternoon and MMMBOP from Hanson was on. My friends and I could not believe how wussed out this was.. then, BAM...all Carson Daly and teenybopper crap. Hanson were the warning sign, but I had no idea how bad things were going to get. I would love to get at least one full hour of footage from MTV from an afternoon from the summer of 1983 and beam it onto MTV, disrupting TRL. It would be so wonderful to see a ridiculous Eminem interview be interrupted by "Twilight Zone" from Golden Earring or "Promised You A Miracle" from Simple Minds.....

I knew that MTV would do that because the ditzy Paris-obsessed 15 year olds clearly beat out emo kids with brains on TRL...

Thats so true that TRL doesent show the full video anymore. I remember voting and praying that My Chemical Romance's new video Teenagers would make #1, and when it did I was so happy, but my joy turned into frustration when I only saw a few seconds of it. Then the video was interupted by fans clapping and an update from MTV News on Paris Hilton. I was so pissed I changed the channel. I hope MTV openes their eyes, eveyone is loosing intrest. MTV, you SUCK!

As much as I think Carson Daly is a tool, he was one of the reasons that made TRL big back in the day. He really did know about the music industry coming from a radio background, and he was likeable (i know, hard to say now) during those early years. But once he got popular and was blinded by all the money he got, he became increasingly obnoxious.

The ONLY good part of TRL ever since I was 10 was the summer of '05 when Mariah Carey's Shake It Off (who was expecting to be #1 until the vid retired) was beat out by My Chemical Romance's Helena, which was EPIC. You VERY rarely see the emo/punk/metal band beat out the pop/R&B/Britney GARBAGE. Then Helena stayed at number 1 for THIRTY EIGHT DAYS (OMFG)...until freakin' Kelly Clarkson and Behind My Hazel Eyes beat it. Which was crap because Helena is one of the most innonative videos I've seen since, um, 2000. And BMHE is the SAME CRAP REHASHED.
So yeah.

I think that this show is LAME! Why would they have the top ten videos or whatever.. and not play the ENTIRE video.. how stupid... seriously though, its a waste of space for another show... I TRL!

I remember when this show first started and they showed the top five requested videos in their entireties; at that time the Goo Goo Dolls song Iris was probably the most over-played song on the radio but it seemed OK for City of Angels was a hit at the box office and MTV hadn't yet realized that the best and easiest way to make loads of money was to promote the Backstreet Boys as much as humanly and when that happened each day was: "Here at number one are the Backstreet Boys with. . .". After that, it was all about who to promote 24-7 so MTV can get richer faster namely the teenpop goo. I'd stopped watching the show long before this happened, but had the misfortune of catching bits and pieces of some loser girl say: "I'm requesting NSYNC's song BYE BYE BYE because I told my ex-boyfriend bye bye bye! WHOO!" TRL is a fine example of how MTV doesn't give a damn about real music anymore; it's all about money. Why else do we never see fat and bald but smart-as-hell-when-it-comes-to-music Matt Pinfield anymore? Why else would MTV have spent 60 to 90 minutes on how Britney Spears is the First Lady of TRL?

Man, soooo terrible sooo sooo terrible. I have nightmares to this day of screaming idiot teenagers on TRL and I haven't seen that show since I was in high school. (that was a while ago...)