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i didn't know NIN still performed.
Yahoo NewsLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The rock band Nine Inch Nails said on Friday it canceled plans to appear on next week's MTV Movie Awards after the network questioned the band's plans to perform in front of an image of President Bush.
The band was slated to perform "The Hand That Feeds," the first single from its latest album.
A Los Angeles Times review called the song "a warning against blind acceptance of authority, including that of a president leading his nation to war."
"We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested, straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," Nine Inch Nails' leader Trent Reznor said in a statement posted on the band's Web site.
MTV said in a statement: "While we respect Nine Inch Nails' point of view, we were uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement. When we discussed our discomfort with the band, their choice was to unfortunately pull out of the Movie Awards."
I wonder if MTV would have stopped Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith or Britany Spears from doing the same? [sarcasm]Why do musicians have to start getting all politically introspective in a time of war anyway, why can't they just stick to writing about drugs, cars, guns and es?[/sarcasm off]
i didn't know NIN still performed.
The new album is pretty decent actually.
I guess it would have been different if it were Toby Keith?
Thats ok, it's not as though MTV is a haven for real artistry either way.
And yeah, NIN's new is awesome.
Not that I agree with MTV's decision, but I would imagine that if we had a Democrat President in office and Toby Keith or Charlie Daniels chose to make a similar statement, the answer would be yes.I wonder if MTV would have stopped Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith or Britany Spears from doing the same?
off subject but I am disappointed with the new album. It sounds like he has gotten lazy in production.
is anyone shocked that mtv elected to do this? i would make the same decision if i was an executive there ... most sane people would.
Viacom
well it does make sense since, as was previously mentioned MTV sucks. If it didnt suck, I would probably be surprised.
Talk about hypocritical Dan.
Where were you when MTV's "Rock the Vote" campaign had Puff Daddy, Paris Hilton, etc. lining up to kiss John Kerry's ass and push the whole "if you vote for W., you're voting for the draft" campaign that you linked to every single week last fall.
To be honest, I'm surprised MTV nixed this, considering how pro-democrat they are.
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rock the vote never even came close to endorsing a canidate
MTV is pro democrat?
VIACOM, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world
well ive heard liberal attached to nearly everything but conglomerate
remember free speech doesnt apply to showing a regular picture of the president on tv
talk about thought police
LOL, they were running ads that said "a vote for Bush is a vote for the draft."rock the vote never even came close to endorsing a canidate
They had Paris HIlton and Puff Daddy or whatever the he calls himself these days on during their studio shows wearing shirts that had John Kerry's face on them with the caption: "I'm voting for Kerry."
But if you don't think that qualifies as an endorsement, any time you want to join us in reality I'll be happy to talk more.
I call that a resounding endorsement. . . by Puffy Father and hoebag.
As far as the ads, I couldnt tell you I dont watch MTV so I dont know if the democratic party PACs bought time on MTV or are you saying that the commercial said "HEY KIDS! MTV says dont vote for Bush." Because if you count political commercials being just run on a station meaning an endorsement, then ABC, CBS, and CNN all endorsed Bush (to name a few) since I saw his commercials on there.
So, how exactly does free speach (I assume you're refering to the 1st ammendment) apply to this? At all?
MTV just wants to be plain sugar/vanilla. They don't want to rock the boat. They want to appeal to the largest audiance as possible, and by letting them make that statement, they might be alienating some viewers. That's why they chose not to allow that. It's their right to do whatever they want.
I'm sure you understand how airtime works, and how it is sold to people who want to advertise.
Puff Daddy ran his own campaign called Vote Or Die. It had absolutely nothing to do with MTV's reoccouring election campaign, Rock The Vote. Before you start saying someone is biased, maybe you should actually find out what you're talking about.
I'm not a fan of MTV in the least, but Rock The Vote was nothing more than a dumbed down version of each parties talking points that was targted at MTV's viewing audience to them to vote. There was nothing biased in the LEAST about the programs they ran and they gave both parties equal time on the air. I don't think it was a very infomrative program, but nothing targeted at people of that age or demographic is ever going to be.
Vote or Die was obviously biased torwards Kerry, but that was Puff Daddy's own program and had nothing to do with what MTV was running. And frankly, I could care less what Puff Daddy says. He wasn't just on MTV, he was all over BET and even the major networks.
Oh, and before you bring up any videos they played that were biased, those are videos and expressions by artists and have no bearing on the opinion of the network that airs them. Mosh was no more indicative of a biased network than any stupid Toby Keith video on CMT is.
Just reading about this pisses me off.....I like NIN and by showing a picture of Bush in the background is about as harmless as you can get while making a statement. MTV has no problem showing videos that depict overt sexual images on a daily basis and hip-hop groups rapping about jewelry and 20" rims...but I guess that's what the kids want....
When did MTV start showing videos?
You've gotta be pretty old to recall something like that!
Yeah no doubt...I'm 28 and still remember a time when they showed videos...well they have MTV2....anyways it's bullocks that what I say.
no
they didnt.
Don't interrrupt AHF's misguided GOP rant.
100% ?
totally?
completely?
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