Under 30: A valentine to VH1

Monday, February 27, 2006

A valentine to VH1

Slate has a good tribute to the network I love to hate to love.

This passage, in particular, stands out, because it reminds me that I am not special, but merely an easily categorized member of a demographic:

VH1's ideal viewer, like ESPN's, is a male in his late 20s nursing a pop hangover, and the comedians are his spiritual gurus. To further the "just us guys" aesthetic, VH1 gives its shows (which can cost a fortune to produce because of rights fees) a kind of low-fi authenticity that contrasts with MTV's slicker productions. "Part of the VH1 approach is having it look tossed off, when in fact it isn't," says Hirschorn.

Tossed off? You mean like this blog? Because really, in fact it IS.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: stevie bo beevie

you always ignore my comments about chuck klosterman

why is this?; 8:25 PM
Steve Hyden said...: Sorry, here is my response.

I like Klosterman a lot. I like his first book, Fargo Rock City, the most, and all of his other books in descended order.

Read Fargo Rock City. It is one of my favorites.; 10:30 AM

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: Name: Steve Hyden; Location: Appleton, Wisconsin

My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."

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