Before I found BET… MTV/ Night Tracks Generation….

Hey hey 👋 what it do, what it is, what’s happenin’.

Shortly after midnight on August 1, 1981, MTV debuted it’s first music video which, by now, everyone knows was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.

And if you didn’t KNOW that, and you’re over the age of 40…I’m looking at you skeptically.

Yes, kinda like this 🤨

But here’s the video in case you wanna redeem yourself:

I mean y’all didn’t HAVE to watch it 🤣, but if you did, I gave you five COOL POINTS.

Awkward Disclaimer:

As of right now, COOL POINTS have no monetary value.

***However if my circumstances change and I’m actually successful enough at this blogging thing and it morphs into the vlogcast/talk show thing of my dreams, the COOL POINTS will be redeemable for future Majique MiMi merch!!

And least that’s the goal!!!

But for now, back to MTV.

Apparently I was eleven when MTV debuted, and I know for a fact that my family didn’t have cable TV initially, so the majority of my music video watching was done at my girlfriend Jennifer’s house. Her family not only had cable, but Jennifer had cable TV in her ROOM.

😱 I know right?

Anyhow, anywho, I wound up spending a lot of time at Jennifer’s watching music videos on MTV and some nondescript video show that even though it was supposed to be “cable” it was still “snowy” or “wiggly”

Kinda like these:

Upon further research, I found out the program was called Night Tracks and it aired on TBS. started at midnight on Friday night and ended at six am the following Saturday morning.

Thanks Wikipedia 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ cuz I knew I wasn’t crazy and I also knew BET wasn’t the first network to play R&B videos.

MiMi feels slightly vindicated 🙅🏻‍♀️.

I said slightly because I was wrong about Prince’s “Little Red Corvette” being the first music video that broke the “color barrier” on MTV. (Pssst, it was really Billie Jean by Michael Jackson)

And that was because I didn’t see “Little Red Corvette” on MTV, I saw it through the wavy lines and the snow on TBS.

🤷🏻‍♀️ #ISWISAIIWII

But that’s when I first SAW Prince and other R&B artists of that era and honestly, that’s when I fell in LOVE with R&B and Soul music.

Don’t get it twisted, I still dug Motley Crue, Def Leppard and em, but my groove didn’t always swing that way; and that was obvious my first day of middle school when we had to cover our textbooks with paper bags.

Then we would take colorful markers and write all of our favorite groups’ names & logos on said book covers.

Pair that up with folders with our favorite groups’ photos on em…and I was all set for fifth grade 😎🤣.

All that to say this, between the school bus 🚌 driver playing the radio on bus 6, and Nite Tracks, I became an R&B connoisseur of sorts.

And once I moved to a neighborhood where my lack of melanin but my abundance of musical knowledge impressed my classmates, I was considered “cool as hell” and I found my rhythm.

Metaphorically that is 🤣 Remember

MiMi can only dance well sitting down.

I know, I know, I need more help than a little bit. But because Sev Rock said I was benevolent, I’m gonna help y’all too…

TWENTY FIVE COOL POINTS goes to the first person who can tell me what was the debut video on Video Soul on BET???

Ready

Set

Go

✌🏼💜💨

Peace, Love, Exhale