I watched MTV’s “Jersey Shore” last weekend. My whole band was mesmerized by it in the bus as we drove to a gig in San Francisco. We felt better about ourselves because we found some people more vulgar and self-centered than we felt we were.
Of course it was hilarious to watch these “piles” conduct themselves like primates in front of the cameras. Then I looked in the corner and notice the MTV logo. I thought I had been watching a shock documentary on a curious lifestyle that would perhaps even propose some solutions to what what looked like a tortured existence. The MTV logo told me that this was not the case.
The “cast” were being showcased on an influential channel to impressionable teens. What should have been produced for IFC, or PBS, to warn people about a moral and social decline was being pushed as on going party for kids to join, emulate, and idolize. Just when you thought Heide and Spencer were the bottom. I know it’s tough to make a living in this business, but is all this really worth it for the folks at MTV?
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