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Ok...this thread could go on for a full page with me ranting on this topic by myself, but I have one particular thing in mind (besides that MTV apparently turned into BET while I wasn't looking). I caught a few minutes of it today before work and it was some post Grammy bullshit. They had a comment on there by a girl that just about set me off. It was something to the effect that Norah Jones (who won 5 awards) was a "no talent lounge singer" and Eminem (who I believe won a single award) was a "man with a message and he got robbed". Let me state that I'm a fan of neither of these people. Ok...Norah Jones has a pretty voice and can play piano rather well. Eminem can flip words well and come up with creative ryhmes. Talent comes in many forms and one isn't necessarily better than the other. Here's my issue...MTV attracts the sort of people who would even bother to make such a statement. Norah Jones is not talentless althought you or I may not find interest in her. Eminem has absolutely no message besides "I'll do my best to piss everyone off as much as possible and make money off of your sorry asses in the process". In the world of real music Norah Jones would win this fight but MTV is not a world of real music. It's a TRL teeny bopper Nelly-listening homo text-me-later kind of world. As I've stated before, appealing to the lowest common denominator will invariably make you a success and I'd like to thank MTV for proving my point. They've turned from a legitimate network that seriously influenced the music industry a decade and a half ago to playing whatever your 13 year old neighbor thinks is cool this week. They used to be a good way to find bands when they first started but now it's all about whatever drives the most commerce between the Real World and Road Rules. So, to MTV, I'd like to give the big fu(k you. May you all end up in the 8th and 9th circles of hell with the rest of the idoliters and traitors, respectively. Karma is a b!tch.