{"id":148,"date":"2008-05-31T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=148"},"modified":"2020-11-15T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T06:46:08","slug":"the-telephone-always-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"I Want <em>My<\/em> <abbr title=\"Music Television\" style=\"font-size: inherit ;\">M<span style=\"vertical-align: top ; font-size: smaller ;\">TV<\/span><\/abbr>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of <abbr title=\"Music Television\">M<span style=\"vertical-align: top ; font-size: smaller ;\">TV<\/span><\/abbr>, music videos were mostly the domain of New Wave music, with a corresponding visual &aelig;sthetic.  Then Madonna came along with <q>Borderline<\/q>, and showed that performers really needed to do little more than <em>prance<\/em>; sheeple would watch.<\/p> <p>For the nostalgic, and for the curious, here's <span style=\"display: block ; padding-left: 2em ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jbd7eZn4Zto\">Fun Boy Three, <q>The Telephone Always Rings<\/q><\/a><\/span> (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">Warning:<\/span> This video may be <q>triggering<\/q> for those who know how to play the piano.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the early days of MTV, music videos were mostly the domain of New Wave music, with a corresponding visual &aelig;sthetic. Then Madonna came along with Borderline, and showed that performers really needed to do little more than prance; sheeple would watch. For the nostalgic, and for the curious, here's Fun Boy Three, The Telephone [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,6],"tags":[223,235,224],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-commentary","tag-fun-boy-three","tag-music","tag-music-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11506,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/11506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}