January312009
Total Request Live »
Great article about the golden age of TRL, including a list of the 10 most influential videos played on TRL. I like that the article also talks about the pop aesthetic, and why it worked:
“The pop aesthetic was easy to parody—the participants even did so themselves sometimes—but this is just evidence of how powerful it was, how coherent and logical a style. It seemed to evoke a particularly American vision of perfection, everything white and clean, everyone moving together…”
