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

There's a reason it's top 40

[BlackCobra43]

Some people, brace yourself for this, enjoy it. I hate this illogical "If nobody likes it then it must be good" "underground" mentality shared by "counterculture" advocates. Get your favorites out there instead fo whining how nobody is giving your unpopular tastes the attention you feel they deserve.

Man, this IS going to be a flamewar.

Re:There's a reason it's top 40

[ZephyrXero]

That's not the problem... That music is fine for a "licensed video game music" category...but we'd all much rather see actual video game scores nominated. Nominating those soundtracks is like nominating the NOW CDs and other compilations... When you see best soundtrack at the Oscars, they're talking about original music made specifically for that movie...but then again, Mtv's not that credible of a source for anything these days :P

Don't you get it?

[ivan256]

Good job for highlighting more cookie cutter Top 40's crap, MTV. Way to go.

It's not about whether you like the music or hate it, or if it's popular or original or whatever... They get paid to advertise this music.