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.

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Top 40 crap

[77Punker]

Sure, most of that is boring standard MTV fare. However, some of the songs on the Tony Hawk games are incredibly obscure, although the latest version doesn't include anything that's all that hard to find. Go looking at any top 40 and see if Dead Boys or the Germs ever had a single hit song.

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

[Iriel]

The most informative sentence in the article is "This is MTV we're talking about, though".The games here are there strictly because of they have the same music you will find on M2 during the two hours a day they play music.

They are not paid to encourage the underground. They aren't trying to expand our minds with anything new or revolutionary. If the candidates in this field were the kinds of scores that most of us would like to see, then the category wouldn't exist next year because the people who vote for anything on MTV wouldn't know the titles.

When I saw the article, I saw an ancient logo for MTV from the days when the M actually stood for something. Given that placement, I can't help but wonder if the the author is a little nostalgic for the old age of Music Television. When they could play almost anything and it was still new. I really can't start a flame war because the title that are on that list are supposed to be on that list. The Source Hip-Hop Awards make no mention of Sarah Brightman, and MTV makes no mention of those that aren't marketed/powerful enough to make it into the mainstream. This isn't to say that everything popular is crap, but pop is what MTV is all about.