Showing posts with label MTV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MTV. Show all posts

Monday, December 2, 2013

30 years of Michael Jackson's "Thriller": A personal retrospective




Today, the world remembers when 30 years ago the music video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller had its premiere on MTV. I’m sure a lot of writing pieces will be published regarding this event, but I didn’t want that to stop me from sharing my personal experience about it. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

MTV after 30 years: On why we don’t talk with it anymore

During my teenage years in the late 90’s, when I started learning about MTV’s origins, I always dreamed of watching the channel’s first hour. When it happened, I wasn’t even alive (I got here three years later, while Madonna was proclaiming she felt “like a virgin”). I wondered all the time what it might’ve felt to witness that historic moment back in August 1st, 1981 not only because of its importance, but because I’m an 80’s fan. That's why I would do anything to hop in a time machine and go back to that decade, and then visit the roaring 20’s.