Youtube Killed Channel O


…MTV, MAD, VH1, and the likes. And here are a few reasons why…

YouTube gives browsers the privilege of being both the viewer and the VJ.

And the choice of what to consume is arguably the best gift that a producer can give a consumer. Add to that the choice of when (and how frequent) can one consume.

YouTube allows one to repeat a video. Something that would irritate viewers who aren’t fans of the about-to-be repeated video on Channel O.

Music video channels, more often than not, group playlists per genre.

With YouTube, one can listen to Kirk Franklin’s song, and then to one by Notorious B.I.G. A dramatic lyrical content leap from Kirk Franklin’s hymns preaching the Ten Commandments — to Biggie’s rhymes in his Ten Crack Commandments track.

On YouTube one doesn’t have to watch videos that they don’t like, simply because they’re the in thing. As pleasing the majority is often at the expense of the minority.

There wouldn’t be “the majority” if the collective wasn’t divided, don’t you think?

One might like R&B, but nobody should force Chris Brown’s music videos down one’s throat. Because to love jazz doesn’t necessarily make one a fan of all jazz artists.

Not everybody loves (whatever genre that’s currently played), and not everybody amongst those that do, likes the artists whose videos will be played on today’s show.

Another technological advancement, and, yet another anxious entrepreneuers.

(It goes without saying that one no longer has to carry their TV around for them to have access to music videos. Yet another advancement in favour of YouTube.)




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— September 30, 2010.