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Speaker 1: Okay, so people are putting this on Twitter. You're the.

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Speaker 2: You're the entertainment expert here on the Kindeling Casey Show.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rob that's Casey.

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Speaker 2: It was forty four years ago today that MTV played

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Speaker 2: the first music video.

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's true.

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Speaker 4: They launched at twelve oh one and they said ladies

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Speaker 4: and gentlemen rock and roll.

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Speaker 3: Eh Anna Ana Nana.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was video Killed the Radio Star from

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Speaker 2: the Buggles, yep, first video they played.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember this?

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Speaker 4: I absolutely remember this. I remember rushing home from school

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Speaker 4: to watch it.

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Speaker 2: So you were you were in person when they played

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Speaker 2: the first video on MTV.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now I didn't see it when it came on, but

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Speaker 4: when I got from school, you know, yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: It was the thing. Everybody was very excited about.

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Speaker 2: It kind of walk some of our younger people know.

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Speaker 2: Many of our audience will of course remember this, But

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Speaker 2: like the younger people, I don't think they understand how

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Speaker 2: influential MTV, say early eighties, from really its inception through

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Speaker 2: I don't know what, probably the late nineties, how influential

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Speaker 2: MTV actually was and the music video itself was in

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Speaker 2: launching either the careers of people or songs. There are

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Speaker 2: certain songs that the video made the song. The video

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Speaker 2: was the reason the song became popular. I think about

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Speaker 2: a song like Stacy's Mom, now that was early two thousands,

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Speaker 2: but Fountains of Wayne, you know, or the Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer.

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Speaker 2: Those are things were the video was bigger than the

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Speaker 2: song itself.

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Speaker 4: So there were a lot of bands that they had

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Speaker 4: this video, and so MTV would play it over and

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Speaker 4: over again. Had it not been for MTV, people would

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Speaker 4: have never heard the music. Yeah, but it was because

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Speaker 4: they had the video, and they didn't have a lot

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Speaker 4: of videos, so the ones they did have they just

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Speaker 4: played repeatedly, over and over again.

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Speaker 3: And then over.

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Speaker 4: The years, artists started putting a lot of money into

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Speaker 4: making videos. I mean you look at Michael Jackson for example.

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Speaker 4: You know, he was one of those people who would, oh, yeah, no,

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Speaker 4: we have to invest money.

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Speaker 3: Into video because that's what the kids are watching.

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Speaker 4: But I think of like Madness Our House and Tommy

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Speaker 4: twotone and Duran Duran Rio. I mean, I know they

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Speaker 4: said that they wanted it to look like it was

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Speaker 4: a Bond movie when they made the video for Rio,

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Speaker 4: and there they were on the boat.

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Speaker 1: And you think about so so like.

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Speaker 2: My generation, where obviously I grew up with MTV, I was,

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Speaker 2: you know, a kid of the nineties, but to me

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Speaker 2: in a pre especially in a pre Internet era or

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Speaker 2: an era in the early days of the Internet, which

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Speaker 2: would have been junior high in high school for me,

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Speaker 2: the primitive sort of years of the Internet or espally,

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Speaker 2: there's no social media, there's no all of these things.

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Speaker 2: The only visuals you had of some of these obscure

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Speaker 2: kind of one hit wonder people was the video like

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Speaker 2: Dexy's Midnight Runners or you mentioned Madness.

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Speaker 1: Of Our House.

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Speaker 2: These were like colossal songs, but because they didn't follow

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Speaker 2: them up, you know, with mega hits, so they're not

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Speaker 2: actively on tour, they're not coming soon to a town

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Speaker 2: near you. By the time I had entered junior high

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Speaker 2: in high school, we're fifteen to twenty years on of these,

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Speaker 2: which when you're that young, it seems like forever ago.

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Speaker 2: Twenty years seems like yesterday to me. Two thousand and

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Speaker 2: five seems like it was yesterday to me now. But

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Speaker 2: for someone my age, the replays of those videos, which

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Speaker 2: would happen basically on an MTV in a no YouTube

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Speaker 2: no Facebook, no Twitter, no Google era or early Google era.

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Speaker 2: MTV was still a link to the past and making

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Speaker 2: it somewhat a prevalent part of the present because they

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Speaker 2: would still play a lot of those old things and

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Speaker 2: the only glimpse you had into a world that was.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just remember that there were a lot of

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Speaker 4: artists who were getting play on MTV that you probably

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Speaker 4: would have never.

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Speaker 3: Known, Like You Too is an example.

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Speaker 4: They start like Sunday Bloody Sunday, and some of their

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Speaker 4: very early videos like they may not have made it

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Speaker 4: into the mainstream lexicon had it not been for MTV

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Speaker 4: finding their video and they needed to play something. So

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Speaker 4: a lot of these bands were getting all of this

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Speaker 4: play that had it not been for MTV, they wouldn't have.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it weird?

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Speaker 2: How time I remember my parents it's telling me this

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Speaker 2: when I was a kid, and it's absolutely become true,

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Speaker 2: Like how time is all basically relevant to the years

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Speaker 2: and the life you have lived. Like hell, when I

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Speaker 2: was a kid, I remember distinctly going to see The

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Speaker 2: Wedding Singer, which is an Adam Sandler movie in the theater.

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Speaker 2: In In fact, I remember the day I went Valentine's

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Speaker 2: Day nineteen ninety eight. I remember going with my buddies

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Speaker 2: to go see it in the eighth grade. And that

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Speaker 2: movie is set in the mid nineteen eighties, so all

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Speaker 2: the music he's a wedding singer in the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 2: It's a hilarious movie. It's one of his best movies,

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Speaker 2: but all the music is from that period.

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Speaker 1: And I remember that would have been, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, between say thirteen and twenty year, thirteen and fifteen

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Speaker 2: in most cases, thirteen to fifteen years to when I

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Speaker 2: was seeing in the theater, and it was like, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, that was so long ago. I can't even

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Speaker 2: imagine what life was like back then. Well, it's equivalent

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Speaker 2: today of saying something that happened in twenty ten or

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Speaker 2: twenty twelve, twenty ten or twenty twelve seems like yesterday

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Speaker 2: to me, and so I am absolutely seeing that play

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Speaker 2: out in real time. That time itself is relevant and

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Speaker 2: the things in it to the life and the years

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Speaker 2: you have lived.

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Speaker 4: I think one of the things that MTV did it

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Speaker 4: really changed the way people. Well clearly it changed the

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Speaker 4: way people thought of music because you would have radio

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Speaker 4: stations getting music requested based on what the kids saw

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Speaker 4: on the TV where that.

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Speaker 3: Had never happened before.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you were able to see the artists visually

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Speaker 4: in ways that you never did before. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you had pictures, you had album covers, but here they

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Speaker 4: are dancing and in costume, lip syncing the song and

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Speaker 4: it just presented their form of entertainment in a whole

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Speaker 4: new way. And it really changed the culture, the celebrity,

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Speaker 4: the attention span of people.

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Speaker 2: Great point because pre MTV, now there were CDs. Well no,

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Speaker 2: there were not CDs pre MTV.

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Speaker 1: People you put a record on, you.

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Speaker 3: Had eight tracks still in nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty wild, isn't it