The Paradox that is MTV and Me

I was a big MTV fan when they played music videos. I was a teenager. Loved Robert Palmer's Adicted to Love, Thriller, that dude climbing in and out of the cartoon singing some crappy song, Devo...and then reality hit...and I mean reality. It's been a slippery slope ever since...starting with Madonna, then Spring Break, Real World, evolving to that dude with the Clock around his neck and some tramp named New York.

Until now.

My teenagers like this show about Rev Run. Now one of my three readers KNOWS that I am a HUGE Run DMC fan...recall...

My Adidas walk through concert doorsand roam all over coliseum floors I stepped on stage, at Live Aid All the people gave an applause that paid And out of speakers I did speakI wore my sneakers but I'm not a sneak My Adidas cuts the sand of a foreign landwith mic in hand I cold took commandmy Adidas and me both askin P we make a good team my Adidas and me we get around together, rhyme foreverand we won't be mad when worn in bad weather

My Adidas..My Adidas..My Adidas

standin on 2 Fifth St. funky fresh and yes cold on my feet with no shoe string in em, I did not win em I bought em off the Ave with the tags still in emI like to sport em that's why I bought em a sucker tried to steal em so I caught em and I thwart emand I walk down the street and I bop to the beat with Lee on my legs and adidas on my feet and now I just standin here shooting the gifme and D and my Adidas standing on 2 Fifth

My Adidas..My Adidas..

Now me and my Adidas do the illest things we like to stomp out pimps with diamond rings we slay all suckers who perpetrate and lay down law from state to statewe travel on gravel, drit road or street I wear my Adidas when I rock the beaton stage front page every show I go it's Adidas on my feet high top or low

My Adidas..My Adidas..

Now the Adidas I possess for one man is rare myself homeboy got 50 pairgot blue and black cause I like to chilland yellow and green when it's time to get illgot a pair that I wear when I'm playin ball with the heal inside make me 10 feet tall my Adidas only bring good newsand they are not used as selling shoes they're black and white, white with black stripe the ones I like to wear when I rock the mic on the strength of our famous universitywe took the beat from the street and put it on TVmy Adidas are seen on the movie screen Hoyywood knows we're good if you know what I meanwe started in the alley, now we chill in Cali and I won't trade my Adidas for a ??

My Adidas..

So now when there's nothing else on TV (which is most of the time) and I need to kill an hour or so (which is rare, but usually occurs with me and the toddler early on a weekend)...I click the TIVO to Rev Run...and I'm illin.

Is MTV going full circle?