I’ve had some swirling thoughts about the VMAs and it wasn’t until I read this that I fig­ured out what I’ve been thinking.

but can i just ask, the read­er, us, we … as non-rhetor­i­cal­ly as pos­si­ble: don’t we seem dumb? didn’t MTV lose the fight against them­selves? Didn’t Rock’n’Roll STOP? Why are the lights so bright? isn’t our tal­ent as artists enough? Why do we try SO hard?

It seemed, years ago, that MTV was a cura­tor of sorts for the arts…nowadays it seems like it’s a manufacturer.