Country Goes MTV
Having just watched ABC’s “The Best of Country ‘92,” I have to wonder at how a producer’s mind works.
Yes, it would have been condescending to have dancers decked out in gingham square-dancing over hay bales. But was it really better to have scary-looking “bad girls” in spandex hip-hopping to Mary-Chapin Carpenter? No one asked Axl Rose to two-step at the MTV awards.
The show was a bad imitation of what MTV already does well instead of a showcase of what country does well. The fans of country and the fans of MTV each want something different from their music. Why don’t producers realize that that’s OK?
CYNTHIA HATCH
Corona del Mar
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