Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana

On the complete disaster that was the MTV Video Music Awards the indispensable John Nolte says it better than we can:

This is not science. No one needs a slide rule to figure what is going on here. MTV sucks. MTV has sucked for years. Today’s music sucks. Today’s performers suck. It is all a giant ball of suck desperate to cover up that suck with perversion and obnoxious politics.

Go read the rest of that piece younger reader(s). Mr Nolte (PBUH) tells us what MTV used to mean.

We learn that a 'rapper' named Logic took to the stage to talk about mental health. Mental Health at MTV, are the freakin' kidding. This. Is. Mental. Health:

Bang your heeeeeead! Metal health will drive you mad!

MTV has become a prog suck-hole.

You know what? MTV used to be for everyone. You like rap? No problem, MTV had Yo! MTV Raps!. You like dance music? No problem, MTV had Club MTV. You like Metal? Well of course MTV had Headbangers Ball so unbelievably appropriately on at midnight. You like comedy? Well then the MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour is for you. This is where we discovered David Spade and Dennis Leary, in the same episode if you can believe it. You like funny sketches, how about Liquid Television?

MTV was un-serious, but mostly it was fun.

Now, not so much.