MTV Nominates Game Tracks, Misses Point

1up.com is reporting that MTV's Video Music Awards has a 'Best Video Game Soundtrack' in the mix this year. However, as usual, MTV misses the point. From the article: "Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, Madden NFL 2005, Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, Def Jam Fight for NY, and Tony Hawk's Underground 2 have all been nominated. Unsurprisingly, the reason these games have been nominated isn't because they feature charming, interesting, moving symphonic scores." Good job for highlighting more cookie cutter Top 40's crap, MTV. Way to go.

Comments

Different Meaning

[Nytewynd]

MTV isn't handing out the award for best video game composition or score. They are handing out an award that best represents the types of music that the audience of MTV would like in a video game.

They are essentially awarding the song that is best licensed to be in a game that is already a favorite song of the MTV population. You can't fault them for it either. If this were a video game awards show, it would be different. This is a show about music videos though. People watching want to see Eminem get an award, not some random Japanese dude. You have to play to your target audience.

Re:Feh?

[Z0mb1eman]

*geek mode on*

Actually, one possible source of its popularity is that it's a favourite saying of Inuyasha, the main character in the anime of the same name, used generally along the same lines as "bah". It's a 3-letter exclamation, I suspect trying to track its many origins would be entirely futile... last time I checked Japanese != Yiddish.

*geek mode off*

(sadly, the above is the most interesting I can post given such an obvious troll of a story...)