If music television was slightly more sexed-up it would be indistinguishable from pornography. I wonder if this is an accelerating phenomenon, so that as the music videos get more pornographic they will begin to compete with the porn industry itself. How will the porn industry respond? Perhaps, with larger music budgets, boosting the quality of their soundtracks until the music in porn films is as highly produced as that on the music channels. Then of course there will be a series of mergers and acquisitions until the new ‘muornic’ industry is fully formed. Hmm…
In response a new, more powerful, undeground ‘true music’ scene will from, rejecting entirely the tyranny of the videographic form. The international world government, using the muornic industry as the perfect cultural weapon against its own people, dispatches units dedicated to the supression of rebellious thought to crush the true music undeground. Massacres take place at outlawed gig venues, news of which spreads like wildfire, massively growing the underground scene.
A few of the organisers begin selling t-shirts.
Pretty soon ‘true music’ is on the shelves of every supermarket in the galaxy. The first true music millionaire superstars hold a sellout concert on the moon. An early true music anthem is the soundtrack to the election campaign of the new galactic president. True music lapdancing clubs become common in the martian colonies.
One of the founders of the true music scene is found dead of an overdose, alone in her appartment, surrounded by blank TDK-90 cassette tapes. England win the galactic water polo championships on the same day and the story is never reported until four months later.
EDIT: Also you must watch this right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb-nV8l2QY