So MTV is 25. I can't say I've watched the channel in years, but it was ever-present when I was growing up.
My parents got cable at our house pretty much as soon as it was available. Many of my more vivid childhood memories involve MTV...
Saturday afternoons, approx. age, 6. My sister would be down for a nap, Mom would be in the kitchen eating lunch, or doing paperwork, whatever it was she did in there. I would be parked in front of Nickelodeon with the brand new snack, Fruit Rollup, and knew just how to push the button on the box to switch the channel to MTV. Yes, I remember the pre-remote days. I actually remember really enjoying the "Lucky Star" video by Madonna.
Her outfit and hair didn't make much sense to me at the time, but I absolutely loved the dancing.
Probably my next most stand-out MTV memory was, of course, the Thriller video. I remember being in the basement of my grandparents' house, with all of my cousins, watching MTV. The video would come on, and being told we weren't allowed to see it, of course we watched it. My sister, the youngest, didn't take it so well.
I really always loved the music videos. I didn't stick around long after they went away.
I was also into the first couple of Real Worlds...but that got old after a while. It's remarkable how things changed...from the tension between roommates Eric and Julie in season one, the obvious attraction that we never saw acted out...to the wide-open naked hot tub threesome type stuff that you can't miss now.
Not that I know what's going on now...like I said, I haven't flipped to MTV in years. I don't even have cable anymore. I've got my music videos back...online.
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