Nikki Sixx tells Reuters, "It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip."

1. MTV was never "hip"
2. Motley Crue was never "hip"
3. Nikki Sixx was never "hip," unless "hip" means "stoned"
4. The word "hip" hasn't been "hip" since Frank and Dean and Sammy died.
5. Shut up, Nikki Sixx, before you break a "hip"

albo

MTV was never "hip"

Well, it was, but back then it was called "hep."

albo:
4. The word "hip" hasn't been "hip" since Frank and Dean and Sammy died.

Johnny Carson used it to describe Doc Severinson and his Orchestra on the last Tonight Show he hosted.

"To say that this band is not 'hip' doesn't know what 'hip' means" (paraphrase).

oldebayer: Well, it was, but back then it was called "hep."

yeah. all those loverboy and rod stewart videos. a "hip" channel where the only black face was j.j. jackson, and he was older than george burns and half as "hip"

albo: oldebayer: Well, it was, but back then it was called "hep."

yeah. all those loverboy and rod stewart videos. a "hip" channel where the only black face was j.j. jackson, and he was older than george burns and half as "hip"

I can't believe that I'm defending Mtv, but here goes:

Other black faces:

Michael Jackson (he used to have a black face)
Lionel Richie
Gap Band
Herbie Hancock
Tina Turner
Prince
Cameo
Public Enemy
Ed Lover and Dr Dre (the original)
Will Smith
Tracy Chapman
Bob Marley
Cameo

All 80s videos on Mtv.

But Mtv still sucks and Motley Crue is a joke.

albo: 5. Shut up, Nikki Sixx, before you break a "hip"

No, that was Mick Mars.

RagingLeonard: All 80s videos on Mtv

you don't remember the early days. there was a huge controversy about MTV being whiter than a Mormon ice cream social. it took a while and public pressure before MTV played black artists
article from 2006 (new window)

albo: Nikki Sixx tells Reuters, "It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip."

1. MTV was never "hip"
2. Motley Crue was never "hip"
3. Nikki Sixx was never "hip," unless "hip" means "stoned"
4. The word "hip" hasn't been "hip" since Frank and Dean and Sammy died.
5. Shut up, Nikki Sixx, before you break a "hip"

Someone's not having fun fun fun in the puffy chair...

/better not be obscure...

Welcome to 1987, Motley Crue.

albo: oldebayer: Well, it was, but back then it was called "hep."

yeah. all those loverboy and rod stewart videos. a "hip" channel where the only black face was j.j. jackson, and he was older than george burns and half as "hip"

Given that stuff like this (new window) was widely played on the radio at the time, yes, MTV was hip because they played music that wasn't getting played on the radio. And their VJ's actually knew a thing or two about music.

/obligatory "get of my lawn/remember when MTV played music videos 24/7" reference goes here.
//And I can't believe I'm defending MTV, either.
///Wonder what Nina Blackwood's up to these days...

///Wonder what Nina Blackwood's up to these days...

...asking Social Security where her check is.

albo: 4. The word "hip" hasn't been "hip" since Frank and Dean and Sammy died.

this



/hep cat

albo: RagingLeonard: All 80s videos on Mtv

you don't remember the early days. there was a huge controversy about MTV being whiter than a Mormon ice cream social. it took a while and public pressure before MTV played black artists
article from 2006 (new window)

It was for the same reason my company has taken so long to produce materials in Spanish.

/I have had no say in that matter, for the record.

albo: oldebayer: Well, it was, but back then it was called "hep."

yeah. all those loverboy and rod stewart videos. a "hip" channel where the only black face was j.j. jackson, and he was older than george burns and half as "hip"

I ain't gonna defend MTV or the Crue, JJ Jackson, on the other hand, was cool.

they had to cut mick mars' backup vocals from the new album because the only thing he sang was "braaaains, braaaains!" on every track

I would hate to see anyone tarnish the good name of Motley Crue.

MTV was cool in August 1981, and it kinda went downhill after that. Especially as the original VJs starting leaving in 1986, it started to not be so cool anymore.

MTV died in 1992 after the Real World crap started. More and more shows about spoiled brats and less music videos after that.

Of course, those of us that had been watching MTV had gotten older and it was dead to us anyway by then.

He can't be serious. MTV films doesn't make movies that go on MTV, nor does anyone at MTV films actually work for (or even think about) the network.

MTV films is just a division of Paramount that makes movies for younger audiences like Election and Hustle and Flow and Blades of Glory. Movies that go to theaters and frequently are not half bad, ya dip.


(The script for "the Dirt" is awesome.)

Global Citizen: they had to cut mick mars' backup vocals from the new album because the only thing he sang was "braaaains, braaaains!" on every track

I lol'ed.

Barnacles!: this

frank, dean and sammy could show up an hour late for their show, be half in the bag, sing a few songs while smoking and drinking scotch, then leave the stage while ignoring the huge applause they would get, go out into the audience, stop by your table, insult you and then leave with your girlfriend...

...and you'd be happy about it. That's "hip"

I think I might have kept Vince from breaking his hip on this occasion.




He could have hit the pavement at any second.

"The phone, waiter. Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."

Didn't Nikki Sixx get a new hip?

Motley Crue is on Larry King's show tonight.

I don't know which one is more pathetic.

barneyfifesbullet: Motley Crue is on Larry King's show tonight.

I don't know which one is more pathetic.

I want to know who is older---Larry King or Mick Mars

Anyone who uses the word "hip" is not.

msannomalley: Wonder what Nina Blackwood's up to these days...

most likely not visiting Frank's final resting area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSGh_zJHMQ (new window)

Sir Roderick Glossop:Someone's not having fun fun fun in the puffy chair...

I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go...

Nikki Sixx has had more fun in his life than all of us douchebags put together.