Longevity, that’s what makes music classic. It’s not a classic when you hear it the first day and get everything you heard right then. It’s a classic when you go back 20 years from now and it can still relate to you. | | | | Golden age of "TRL": Destiny's Child on the "TRL" tour in Albany, NY, July 18, 2001.
(Theo Wargo/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Longevity, that’s what makes music classic. It’s not a classic when you hear it the first day and get everything you heard right then. It’s a classic when you go back 20 years from now and it can still relate to you.”
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| | rantnrave:// Something I overlooked in my special edition TOM PETTY newsletter: his innovative music videos. Among the small group of classic rockers who instinctively understood the power of video, Petty was one of the most consistently inventive and almost certainly the most prolific. His MTV VIDEO VANGUARD AWARD was as well-earned as anything in his statue collection. I've always had an affinity for "YOU DON'T KNOW HOW IT FEELS," a single five-minute shot in which Petty stands on a slowly spinning stage in a blue hoodie and brown floppy hat while a carnival of random, non-linear strangeness unfolds behind him. It's quintessential Petty, emblematic of an artist who was always inventing and dreaming and moving forward even while his musical muse was happily, stubbornly, defiantly doing its own thing... A minute-long tribute to Petty seemed out of place on Tuesday's second episode of MTV's rebooted TRL, partly because the show doesn't seem ready to adopt a serious tone but also because of the whole video thing. MTV's choice to bring back its video countdown without either videos or a countdown may be the revived show's savviest idea. The chaotic, freewheeling blur of blink-and-you-miss-it moments has a SNAPCHAT-like feel; it mimics the way pop fans interact with pop stars in 2017 better than video ever could. So stop complaining about that. What's not clear yet is if the show's producers and sprawling collection of hosts are good at making Snaps. The cameras sometimes seem to be pointing the wrong way and the hosts look perpetually confused, as if they're the ones who blinked and missed and there's still 10 seconds of airtime to fill and what now? On the other hand, the studio windows overlooking TIMES SQUARE look as great as ever, and I'm not going to complain about ED SHEERAN, MIGOS, PLAYBOI CARTI and NOAH CYRUS playing live (or at least live-ish) on my TV the past two afternoons. Just maybe rehearse the whole show a little more, or something... The single most heartbreaking, and human, piece I have read about what it was like to be in LAS VEGAS Sunday night... ROSANNE CASH responds to Sunday's terrorism by laying down a challenge for her country peers in a NEW YORK TIMES op-ed... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is now in previews on BROADWAY and isn't ruling out extending the run beyond its currently planned 16 weeks. He is, however, ruling out writing an "anti-TRUMP diatribe." He recommends CHARLES M. BLOW for that job ... Changes at the top at WARNER BROS.... RIP APEX. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| By the time the night's final act took the main stage, the fast friends had settled into a spot about 20 yards from the right side of the stage, nestled between a few cuddly married couples and a rambunctious bachelorette party. Then the first shots were fired. | | |
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| Anthony Fantano got famous off The Needle Drop. And then the SJWs struck? His YouTube channel This Is The Plan was his misguided response. | | |
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| After Sunday’s mass shootings, security professionals are stymied by the rise of attacks that target patrons from outside security lines. | | |
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| Twenty years ago, the MTV countdown show—and its fan-besieged Times Square studio—was the center of the pop universe. Can its reboot possibly recreate the magic? | | |
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| How one sleepy Southern college town changed the history of rock 'n' roll. | | |
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| An ode to the bygone device. | | |
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| In this candid interview, Future talks about the work ethic that got him to where he is today. Find out about the artist behind the mask. | | |
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| Author Jennifer Otter Bickerdike interviewed 25 musicians and collectors, including Henry Rollins, Lars Ulrich and Mike Ness, about the format's enduring popularity. | | |
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| Cole Cuchna's 'Dissect' podcast is diving deep to analyze Kanye's 'MBDTF' one song at a time. | | |
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| Live music concerts have been the frequent targets of mass attacks. A timeline of tragedy. | | |
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| The woodsy rolling hills and vivid green pastures of central New Jersey are about as far from the proverbial bright lights of Broadway as one can get, both spiritually and psychically. But that’s where Variety is headed for a meeting across the river with Bruce Springsteen to discuss his career and his forthcoming residency at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre. | | |
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| On her new album, ‘Younger Now,’ the once-controversial singer grabs the songwriting reins and drives toward a gentler sound. But shifting direction for a third time in five years won’t be easy. | | |
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| Conferences have the opportunity to improve on reality’s mistakes. Unfortunately, the data shows otherwise. | | |
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| MTV's 'TRL' came back on the worst day possible, without the videos that used to provide its core. Will it be able to find its footing? | | |
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| For the past nine years the enigmatic Los Angeles artist -- who counts Grimes amongst her fans -- has been uploading beguiling music videos that are as enticing as they are mysterious | | |
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| Future Islands join me to talk about the very long drive that is their career in music. | | |
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| Patriotism is not antithetical to gun control. | | |
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| Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states. | | |
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| For "Variety's" latest issue, we asked Jann Wenner to write a tribute to his son Gus Wenner, one of 50 people to make our New Power of New York list. Here's why Gus represents a new generation of movers and shakers that capture the best of Manhattan. | | |
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| Back in 1981 Tom Petty talked with Tom Snyder about his new album and why he fought his record label over a dollar. | | |
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