Saturday, September 22, 2007

MTV, YouTube, Justin Timberlake and David Bowie

On the recent MTV Video Awards, Justin Timberlake complained about MTV not playing enough music video. The next day, the New York Times called out the obvious: YouTube is this generation's MTV. But not this generation: all generations. YouTube gives you music videos you can't get any other way. For example, here is inimitatible David Bowie, first -- with Luther Vandross singing backup no less -- singing Young Americans in 1974:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bed-pnf6oGY]

and here's Bowie doing "Rebel Rebel" , 25 years on....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOn6oVKG95k]

YouTube is amazing, as is David Bowie. :)

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