LBJ was an attempt to make an MTV full length video showing a teen rebel. There's no other time this film would have been made. By this time, 1985, the hype over MTV was ending. MTV was already being mocked by films, TV shows, and yes, most music groups as the empty headed pose of rebellion instead of actual rebellion.
MTV made the careers of vacuous posers like Adam Ant and Billy Idol while ignoring most better music. By this time it was following music trends a couple years later instead of making them. For example Yo MTV Raps began in 1987, three years after hip hop was already huge.
LBJ's idea of rebellion is a getting a trendy haircut and making a video. Not the nihilism or lashing out at society of Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, or Suburbia.
"I cut my hair. Aren't I daring?" "We have a video camera. Aren't we rebellious?"
No. Not even close. Dull. Duller. Painfully bad and irritating.
Only nostalgia or being horny for the star explain high rating.
MTV made the careers of vacuous posers like Adam Ant and Billy Idol while ignoring most better music. By this time it was following music trends a couple years later instead of making them. For example Yo MTV Raps began in 1987, three years after hip hop was already huge.
LBJ's idea of rebellion is a getting a trendy haircut and making a video. Not the nihilism or lashing out at society of Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, or Suburbia.
"I cut my hair. Aren't I daring?" "We have a video camera. Aren't we rebellious?"
No. Not even close. Dull. Duller. Painfully bad and irritating.
Only nostalgia or being horny for the star explain high rating.