Pablo Torre Finds Out
Tearin' Up My Charts: How MTV's 'Total Request Live' (and Pop-Culture Democracy) Got Rigged
12 Mar 2024
Prepare yourself for the warm glow of late-'90s nostalgia: In the era of boy-band supremacy (and a little Korn), the 'TRL' countdown was America's high-school cafeteria — a daily election of cool for youth culture. Until one fateful day in music history, twenty five years ago this week, when a chain letter set off a movement to hack the vote. Correspondent Yourgo Artsitas examines whether MTV's shadow government was protecting the the sanctity of our culture... with a lie.Learn more: https://trolldoc.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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