MTV Dance
paul_hadley
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Anyone know if these rumours are true? If so, what will it become? MTV Party?
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paul_hadley
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There simply isn’t enough dance music released in this country anymore its like record compaines have some communist music agreement with the US!!
Have you seen the UK top 40 its all made up of rap music and british pop. :eek:
Compare the single charts with France, Germany and Holland and there’s plenty of dance released there.
MTV UK is a joke if you want decent MTV channels your going to have to move your dish away from murdocks satellites
I agree there isnt much dance music in the charts, which is a mighty shame. I love a good bit of trance or techno (as long as its nothing too cheesy
Why then isn't MTV2 going the way of the dodo and indeed why do they pander to the indie lot with no comericals and a indie playlist (no rnb as far as I am aware)
MTV Dance needs to be just that......DANCE! I have lost count of the amount of times since its launch that threads have been started here bemoaning the fact that MTV execs dont seem to understand the word DANCE!
Yes, there isnt as much dance music getting an airing in the UK, but there is plenty of opportunity for MTV Dance to take stuff from the continent.....
.....doubt they will though, that would mean them being innovative!!!
Its number 4 on the TMF Interactive Charts
I also think most r'n'b is boring and repetitive but I like european r'n'b music like K'Maro
WE have 4 MTV channels from 440-443 and they show either Nick and Jessica which i do not see has anything to do with MTV apart from the fact they are overated stars. The other 3 show the same thing.
Get rid of these docu programmes and get more music on and keep the dance and hip hop on one channel
I guess Newlyweds has something to do with music television as they are both musicians. But I agree, we need more music based stuff on there.
Don't forget MTV Central Europe and MTV2POP are FTA on Astra1:(See here) and are a thousand times better than all the MTV UK channels
MTV doesn't have a tiny budget at all! The MTV UK channels are never going to improve there just going to get even worser
although i dont like the cheesey pop stuff that gets into the charts its got to be better than hearing bloody eminem and sodding nelly etc
I dont see how you could class all dance music as boring or repetitive - There are many genres of dance - House, Garage, Drum n Bass, Funky House, Trance, Techno, Hardcore, Ambient, Breakbeat. All those styles of music are totally different.
If you dont like MTV Dance then dont watch it!
On the subject of MTV Dance - Its crap during the day but after 7pm its generally good, they actually play dance music, whether its the latest releases or some 'Old Skool'.
The best programme is the 'I got mashed in...' series.
There is good dance music out there but you just gotta look harder to find it, many dance tracks never get released as singles now!
So unless MTV has sent out a load of incorrect schedules, looks like MTV Party is coming back.
I hope it isn't coming back! Proper dance music didn't start until midnight during the Christmas schedule... I suppose we'd have to make do with Weekender which is still listed.
Also, every night after midnight is listed as old skool anthems meaning even less new dance music will be shown!
I recommend www.di.fm if you wanna hear some good stuff. Also, there is a very cool "dance network" thing someone has made which is extremly extensive, you could spend hours on it. Click here for it: http://www.ishkur.com/music/ Its great!
I wrote an email to MTV Dance a few weeks ago regarding their schedule, and finally got a reply today after sending them another. It reads:
"Hello Tom
Sorry I haven't got back to you before but I received your first email along with a barrage of other stuff after returning from the Christmas break. I work in the Interactive department, and part of my job is handling any online stuff for Dance. I'm not sure who is actually in charge of MTV Dance at the moment as it's currently in a bit of a transitional period. I will pass your first email onto somebody who works on the channel and see if they will forward it to correct person.
Regards
Nick "
We can only guess what this 'transitional period' is, but I hope it's for better and not for worse.
Of course it could be good or bad, the channel might finally have the balls to play real dance music like Rapture did, or sadly it could give up on dance music completely.
Either way, i'm glad it sounds like some changes are on the horizon as the channel currently is quite a mess. Dance fans are put off by the content, pop fans (who probably would like the daytime videos) are put off by the name. MTV Dance has never really had a stable playlist, it would be nice if they could decide on a direction for the channel and stick to it.