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Everyone knows MTV is nowhere near as entertaining as it used to be. I equate this to a lack of music videos and an increase in reality TV. If you were as disappointed at the scaling-back of music videos as I was, take heart: MTVMusic.com just launched, and is an archive home to pretty much any video your little heart — and big curiousity — desires. Toto’s "Africa," check. Coldplay, check. Rick Astley, David Bowie, Britney Spears … check, check, check. And, of course, you can also check out MTV’s inagural video from 1981, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.

And if you need even more reasons to visit (not that you would), you can also browse artist interviews and glean album info from the site.


Dire Straits |MTV Music


A lot has happened since the last installment of Pop Bites on 8/22. Joe Biden and Sarah Palin are our veep nominees, football season is in full swing and hurricanes are ravaging the coast. It’s certainly turning out to be an unpredictable year. But anyway, on to today’s interesting headlines …

1. Britney Spears won big at the MTV Video Music Awards last night, taking home three silver Moonmen. She likes shiny things.

2. In case you needed yet another reason to zone out on a Monday, Rolling Stone posted “The 25 Funniest Web Videos.” You can thank me later.

3. After an explosive summer (and, really, what could top Dark Knight‘s hype?), the fall box office is off to a historically slow start.

4. Madonna, obviously a lapsed Catholic, dedicated a concert rendition of “Like a Virgin” to the Pope.

5. Stephen Colbert will send his DNA into space. And don’t worry, I’m sure he doesn’t really know why, either.