1st August 1981 boasts of the day a revolution of sorts occurring in the Western music industry with the birth of MTV (Music television). The world felicitated the industry for the ingenuity of their brainchild. What everybody failed to realize is that this concept of songs, music, dance and story had been churned out time and again from the time the first Indian talkies (movies) were churned out of their studios in 1936. In fact the Indian own 'MTV type of songs' also impart good values, advice and facts of life. And we all know how MGR's songs were political propaganda tool in a state which was drowning in hero worship. MTV, you were a wee bit too late...but happy 30th anniversary anyway. But no thank you for creating the MTV and the 'Y' generation and their promiscuous and revealing dressing and behaviour (when Madonna made it totally acceptable to parade around in laced bodice)... It also must have given many great moments to many blue bearded...
It is all Mimesis