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I have a lot of hilarious memories from my pre-teen days. I vividly remember all the awkward school dances, the Old Navy performance fleece and putting those stupid butterfly clips in my hair. I especially remember coming home from middle school and waiting almost every day for that special moment.
Once I was tuned into MTV's classic "Total Request Live," more commonly known as "TRL," I waited as patiently as I could through all the interviews with celebrities I didn't care about to get down to what really mattered. I'm talking about those precious 30 seconds of pure perfection - the gentlemen of *NSYNC in the video "Drive Myself Crazy." You know, the one where they're all in the looney bin. I swooned hard.
This was part of my daily routine. I was a girl possessed and obsessed, and I can recall it actually infuriating me when the video was cut short. I always wondered why MTV insisted on creating a music video countdown, and not showing the entire video.
It probably had something to do with the fact that most of the videos had played for a thousand days straight. I was always so proud when *NSYNC's videos were forced to retire. It's like they were the reigning champs of "TRL" - they couldn't be defeated, only forced to leave the competition.
Those were the good old days of "TRL." The days when Carson Daly and his black nail polish hosted, and people actually flooded Times Square in hopes of either getting upstairs or at least having the camera focus on a sign declaring their love for a certain boy band. But now, MTV is announcing the end of what we all know, and maybe at one point loved, as "TRL."
Honestly, I forgot the show still existed until I heard this announcement. I didn't realize people still watched it, and I guess now I know they don't.
The final episode is airing in November, and the executive producer Dave Sirulnick has announced the 10-year-old show will be ending on a happy, celebratory note, not a sad one - I doubt anyone is really all that sad. According to an Associated Press article, Sirulnick has said "TRL" has been "working hard" for the past 10 years and needs a reward in the form of some rest.
The poor guy is in such denial. He and I, and the rest of the country, know the show is clearly dirt - tired, outdone dirt at that. Sure, it was a hit back during its early years when boy band and Britney Spears obsessed pre-teens like myself consumed it for all it was worth, but nowadays pre-teens are too busy MySpacing and such to care about "TRL." And if they want to see the Jonas Brothers or Miley's newest video, they can just go on YouTube and watch it in its entirety rather than suffer through the awfulness that is "TRL" to get to see 20 seconds of the video.
So rest in peace, "TRL." I doubt anyone will miss you, because let's face it - the TRL we knew and loved died a long time ago when they took the "wannabe-edgy" version of Carson off.
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