Death to the Stars

The tour through the history we were given is still tickling my brain. The very thought of a music video, as we think of them today, being made before 1900, without the aid of aliens, is extraordinary. Of course, it was nothing that would likely air on MTV but it was still monumental.

Speaking of MTV as it was back in the day when they actually played music videos, the revolution it started in terms of specialized media channels extends outward to today. We have channels that play music and music videos on any one specific genre that you would care to hear. (Cable is amazing!) But I am tripping all over my original intent, the first video that aired on MTV was "Video killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. This video shows what a lot of people expected to have happen due to the era of modern technology, the old fashioned stuff would be wiped away and replaced with only the finest and "chrome-iest". (The old visions of the future were kind of outlandish.)

This kind of technological revolution never really happened all at once, though technology has been sliding towards more complicated machines and technologies. Radio didn't really start taking hits until the Internet came along. Once people were able to access whatever they wanted when they wanted, we started to kill both the radio and TV stars.