@flexasaurusrex

I grew up 10 miles outside a town of 12,000 people. In the woods. In Oregon. There was no culture around me. No scene except a handful of rebellious skate punks. No indication that the world I suspected existed actually did. MTV told me it did. Not the internet. Not yet. Just a cable channel that came on late at night and showed you things nobody around you had seen or heard or thought about. A video would come on and you'd sit there thinking — people made this. People are living like this somewhere. That somewhere exists. For a kid in the Oregon woods that wasn't entertainment. That was a lifeline. We didn't choose what came on. We waited. Volume low. One hand on the remote. And when something appeared that cracked the world open a little wider — you just sat with it. Because you couldn't rewind it. You couldn't search for it. You either caught it or you didn't. That feeling of being found by something — instead of finding it — that's what we lost. That's what MTV Rewind is trying to give back. wantmymtv.xyz

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