Okay, I've been watching the Live 8 U.S. broadcast for a half-hour.
So far, we've seen McCartney and Bono singing "Sgt. Pepper's," The Black Eye Peas singing with the Marleys, a montage of stuff that already happened in London, Will Smiff snapping his fingers, the Declaration of Independence coming out to take a bow and...
...an assload of commercials and VH1 talking heads with wayyyy too much product in their hair.
This is pissing me off.
Either broadcast the music or don't even bother, for crissakes.
At this point the 8 in Live 8 represents the seconds of actual music broadcast.
Posted by Jeff at July 2, 2005 12:30 PM | TrackBackYeah. I watched about 30 seconds and saw them cut between 5 seconds of a band live, and 5 seconds of the Killers from London who knows when. Then a commercial.
The rampant consumerism kind of defeats the poiint doesn't it? If MTV really supported the cause, they'd air it without commercials.
I'm so with ya both on this one.
Posted by: Cupie at July 2, 2005 07:00 PMIt would be halfway OK if the freakin' MTV News folks would stop cutting in halfway through the performances to squawk more.
Posted by: Robert at July 2, 2005 07:36 PM