Three days after the Age of Terror began,TRLreturned to MTV.
Cultural history recalls the profound statements by late-night hosts, David Lettermans stoic fury, Jon Stewarts raw emotion.
And the broadest description of the 9/14TRLis precisely that off-key.
Credit: TRL
The actual episodes difficult to find, but you might catcha quick glimpse of it in the aforementioned doc.
TRLwas a strange show, perfect for a time long gone.
The mood wouldve been off no matter what, but the shoddiness of the production didnt help.
Take, for example, the one pure moment of trainwreckitude.
DC Young Fly (one of the 1,700 hosts) took the time to note that Rihanna and J.
Lo were taking to social media to show their support for the victims.
We need some words of wisdom, Big Bro!
I have a rule in my house: No dark clouds allowed in my house.
The key is to stay away from them.
Walk away, or ask them to leave nicely.
Brief pause to imagine: DJ Khaled, nicely asking dark clouds to leave his house.
They staged acold open with the assembledTRLhosts and guestssomberly assembled, sending thoughts and prayer to Las Vegas.
Throughout, MTV ran short commercials pointing viewers to a website promoting gun control.
There is some honor in the idea that entertainment can be a distraction from lifes horrors.
Maybe the show will get better when it irons out some kinks, but I dont know.
The general style had less in common with the originalTRLthan with the recent editions of the Video Music Awards.
The modern VMAs always have multiple stages and outdoor performances and various humans with microphones scattered frontstage and backstage.
The show seems to get worse at managing its hugeness every year, though.
to a dude who badly did not want to twerk.
After this segment was over was it a segment?
Do we have more challenges?
Was anyone planning this?
The unfortunate answer is both yesandno.
Ed Sheeran came on, looking as embarrassed as he always does.
Or are you more like a Facebook Its Complicated couple?
(I have nightmares where people ask me the same thing.)
It was right around this moment when social media lit up with the news aboutTom Pettys condition.
But Khaled was right, as usual.
