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Article: Music videos turn movies into giant ads
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 9, 1986
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A funny thing has been happening to me lately while I've been
playing with the remote-control zapper on my TV
set. I'll be channel-hopping, and I'll find a familiar scene from a
movie. So I'll stay on that channel for a moment, only to see the
movie disappear and Madonna turn up, followed by Tina Turner and Huey
Lewis. I'm not watching a movie. I'm watching music videos.
What's even stranger is when I am actually watching a movie, and
I get the feeling that the movie itself has changed into MTV. Since
this happens when I'm in a movie theater and not anywhere near a TV
set, it's unsettling.
My most recent experience with this phenomenon was during
"Quicksilver," which opens Friday at ...