We've Come A Long Way As A Society But It's Still Hard To Imagine

[Koolaid_Man]

That not too long MTV refused to play the songs from these albums....:lol they're only the two greatest solo artists in World history....

#historicalfail tbh

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/Koolbreezey/Mobile%20Uploads/Purple-rain-cover_zps5rfvhtaf.jpg


http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/Koolbreezey/Mobile%20Uploads/michael-jackson-s-most-famous-albums-michael-jackson-s-thriller-special-edition-album-cover_zpshsqzmxb9.jpg


Thanks to David Bowie for shaming the racism out of MTV :lol

[Avante]

Back in the 20's a hillbilly band called...The Skillet Lickers, recorded the tune....Run ****** Run....and that was just one of many "coon songs" back in the day. Then we had what was known as "race records" yep, records made by black artists for the black audience. A lot of smut here, with lyrics like....I want to ride my mule....my banana in your fruit basket....black snake moan.....nobody is talking snakes, bananas and mules. And this went on for a long time. With white guys like Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Elvis well aware of that music, something most white folks wouldn't be caught dead listening to. That's jiggaboo music, it's for those savages.

Then in the early 50's, things begin to change a little with rock and roll and black croups like The Crows bringing a less...we is black...sound to the public. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino all getting what had to be done to sell records, that being ease off...we is black.

Country music in the beginning was just a white cat singing his blues, we saw a heavy black influense there. Rock and roll obviously blues influensed, especially Elvis who was a huge fan of Big Boy Crudup, to the point of making his first record....That's Alright Mama....a Crudup cover.

Hard to imagine where we'd be musically without the black influense.

Big Boy never saw a dime, this being the tune that launched the career of Elvis Presley.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU3ZFNIa0t0



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0M2zEx-7g&list=PLcWOknmzfpVTXN5QsH3umCv5MBY7ctHzF

Like Big Boy, Big Mama never saw a dime......



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHDrzw-RPg

[Avante]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmopYuF4BzY

[johnsmith]

http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/2013/10/11/nina-blackwood-clears-up-reason-why-mtv-didnt-play-early-michael-jackson-videos/

Not sure I totally believe this but just shows that there can always be two sides to every story.

[SpursforSix]

That not too long MTV refused to play the songs from these albums....:lol they're only the two greatest solo artists in World history....

#historicalfail tbh

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/Koolbreezey/Mobile%20Uploads/Purple-rain-cover_zps5rfvhtaf.jpg


http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/Koolbreezey/Mobile%20Uploads/michael-jackson-s-most-famous-albums-michael-jackson-s-thriller-special-edition-album-cover_zpshsqzmxb9.jpg


Thanks to David Bowie for shaming the racism out of MTV :lol

What the fuck are you talking about. You're saying MTV refused to play videos off of Purple Reign. That's what your dumbass is saying???

[Koolaid_Man]

What the fuck are you talking about. You're saying MTV refused to play videos off of Purple Reign. That's what your dumbass is saying???


Calm down man Tits :lol

You did some homework and come up in this bitch like gang busters huh? Jiggling man Tits and all :lol

But yeah..they refused initially but eventually backed down :lol

Capish? :lol

[SpursforSix]

Calm down man Tits :lol

You did some homework and come up in this bitch like gang busters huh? Jiggling man Tits and all :lol

But yeah..they refused initially but eventually backed down :lol

Capish? :lol

I didn't do any homework. Maybe I'm wrong. But I have a hard time believing they refused to play videos from Purple Reign after the had already played vids from 1999. And Thriller.

[Koolaid_Man]

I didn't do any homework. Maybe I'm wrong. But I have a hard time believing they refused to play videos from Purple Reign after the had already played vids from 1999. And Thriller.

I stand corrected jiggly man Tits...:lol..there's so much rascism out there sometimes the shit can be confusing...Prince followed MJ but had it not been for MJ they wouldn't have played shit form Purple Rain...



It's important to note that MTV's embrace of "Billie Jean" wasn't just a cultural breakthrough. The music channel might not exist today had it not changed its tune on black music.

"It's not enough to say the Thriller videos forced MTV to integrate," Tannenbaum insisted. "Michael Jackson helped save the network from being shut down. MTV executives had expected to lose $10 million before they showed a profit.

The network quickly lost $50 million, and its parent company was prepared to shut down MTV and call it quits. Jackson's three Thriller videos came out in 1983. In the first three months of 1984, MTV had their first quarterly profit. Ironically, MTV was rescued from failure by a musician who didn't fit the channel's original 'rock 'n' roll-only' format."

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2013/03/billie_jean_and_mtv_a_lot_has_changed_in_30_years. html

[SpursforSix]

I stand corrected jiggly man Tits...:lol..there's so much rascism out there sometimes the shit can be confusing...Prince followed MJ but had it not been for MJ they wouldn't have played shit form Purple Rain...



http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2013/03/billie_jean_and_mtv_a_lot_has_changed_in_30_years. html


You're truly an idiot. Prince was on MTV before Michael Jackson.

[Koolaid_Man]

You're truly an idiot. Prince was on MTV before Michael Jackson.


Proof? And if he was he didnt help them at all...it was because they stopped their racism and Mike saved MTV tbh

[SpursforSix]

Proof? And if he was he didnt help them at all...it was because they stopped their racism and Mike saved MTV tbh

1999 came out before Thriller I think. And they played the shit out of Little Red Corvette and 1999.

Your #historicalfail is pretty apropos for this thread.

[Koolaid_Man]

1999 came out before Thriller I think. And they played the shit out of Little Red Corvette and 1999.

Your #historicalfail is pretty apropos for this thread.


Wrong Prince didnt get play until after Thriller.....you miserable man tItty fuck :lol

[SpursforSix]

Wrong Prince didnt get play until after Thriller.....you miserable man tItty fuck :lol

Post a link or something.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong.