MTV's Notable Unplugged Performances: Jay-Z?
I recently read an article from StarPulse from contributing writer Samantha Greaves. She is black, or the more politically correct "African American." Why does this little tidbit of information matter?I'll show you.
Samantha wrote an article on the Top Five shows MTV needs to bring back. The top five I came up with were Unplugged, Beavis and Butthead, Undressed, Remote Control, actually show music videos.
Here was the list Ms. Greaves wrote: Unplugged, Yo MTV Raps, Diary, Making the Video, and TRL. Some people liked those shows,so my grievance isn't with the list, it is with the paragraphs.
Unplugged's paragraph: Notable Unplugged performances were from Jay-Z, Alanis Morissette, Alicia Keys and Shakira.
WHAT THE FUCK!? Really? Jay-Z? Alicia Keys? Shakira? Fuck those assholes. Unplugged's most iconic show was Nirvana's Unplugged. Their cover of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World from that show is still played on mainstream rock radio today.
The list could go on, Stone Temple Pilots, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, PearlJam, Alice in Chains, and KISS. They are the ones that hit the top of my head with no research. I didn't even know Jay-Z did a fucking unplugged performance, but how does a rapper do an unplugged performance without it actually being called a poetry reading?
Anyway,I am guessing she doesn't remember MTV Unplugged's most famous performances because she is black and was listening to rap/hip hop instead of rock. She probably wasn't into that whole Grunge thing in the 90's...OR she is too young to remember it. Either way, MTV's most notable Unplugged performance was not any of the ones she mentioned.
You can go to her article and laugh at her FAIL.
Samantha wrote an article on the Top Five shows MTV needs to bring back. The top five I came up with were Unplugged, Beavis and Butthead, Undressed, Remote Control, actually show music videos.
Here was the list Ms. Greaves wrote: Unplugged, Yo MTV Raps, Diary, Making the Video, and TRL. Some people liked those shows,so my grievance isn't with the list, it is with the paragraphs.
Unplugged's paragraph: Notable Unplugged performances were from Jay-Z, Alanis Morissette, Alicia Keys and Shakira.
WHAT THE FUCK!? Really? Jay-Z? Alicia Keys? Shakira? Fuck those assholes. Unplugged's most iconic show was Nirvana's Unplugged. Their cover of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World from that show is still played on mainstream rock radio today.
The list could go on, Stone Temple Pilots, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, PearlJam, Alice in Chains, and KISS. They are the ones that hit the top of my head with no research. I didn't even know Jay-Z did a fucking unplugged performance, but how does a rapper do an unplugged performance without it actually being called a poetry reading?
Anyway,I am guessing she doesn't remember MTV Unplugged's most famous performances because she is black and was listening to rap/hip hop instead of rock. She probably wasn't into that whole Grunge thing in the 90's...OR she is too young to remember it. Either way, MTV's most notable Unplugged performance was not any of the ones she mentioned.
You can go to her article and laugh at her FAIL.







Craig, How I love your posts! So true, so true....What do they do at an unplugged Hip Hop show? Unplug the sampler? leave the auto tune in the Hummer? All of your aforementioned performances and artists from Unplugged are just about the only ones I remember. How about House of Lords doing Can't Find My Way Home or Great White doing "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" from the days of HAIR... Black Crowes('90),SRV ('90)..even Neil Young was better than any of the dung she listed. I read B and R religiously, am a Philly based blogger myself, and would love to meet up and check out a show with you sometime. let me know...Seano
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