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Bette Midler Thinks MTV Ruined Live Music, Too [Complaint Dept.]
Posted on August 06, 2008
Brassy showstopper Bette Midler is not happy with what MTV has done to the world of live music performance: After MTV came along, people were seeing their favorite singers in videos, and suddenly there was a certain vision of a song how it should sound, how it should look. Then [in concert], there was no room for improvisation everyone wanted an exact replica, she told the New York Daily News. While I see her point in a sense although one could argue that recording music, and widely disseminating said recordings, also sets up a similar false expectation among audiences MTV did play t...
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