lmckenzie: "As someone alluded to, todays society emphasizes a MTV quick cut, sound bite, fast food, disposable, Brownie snapshot approach to life. People, especially young people are less likely to read newspapers, much less books. Music video, video games, and the Internet influence them. It should be no surprise that you end up with a number of Vicky in temple homages to Frazeta, Vicky as Britney, or anything with Vicky naked." The problem is not in MTV or music videos, but in thoughtless immitation. Video is as much cinematography as a full film. Have you known that the video for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" has as many editing cuts as an average feature film? (Sorry, unceratin about exact terminology.) But not many people are prepared/able to put that much effort into their creations. So they create something that's superficially like something they've seen. And then MTV gets blamed for Sturgeon's 90%. Of course, we could talk about instant gratification, but as somebody who couldn't draw to save my life, I'm probably not the right person to do that.

-- erlik