Music Television, that is. Not the unpalatable programming that’s taken over the once-revolutionary video channel like a cancer and rendered it virtually unrecognizable to Generation X. But I guess it’s a pipe dream of mine now that the network has officially dropped “Music Television” from the logo.

the new MTV logo and the original 1981 design

Seriously, people. “Jersey Shore” is more riveting than watching artists’ visual interpretations of songs, good and bad? Sure, there’s You Tube for all that now, but it lacks the personalization that Martha Quinn and the other veejays possessed. Yes, I may be living in the past, but it rocked the Casbah.

So what exactly does the “M” represent now? Mystery meat, school cafeteria style. Hand me a barf bag, like totally.

Read about the MTV logo story here. And let’s keep hope alive that maybe someday music videos will find their way back into pop culture.