TRL

Wild, adolescent girls screaming amid flashing lights, tones of blue, and dozens of cameras surrounding. Put this in Times Square and you have MTV's Total Request Live. The use to be cool show (back in my day when Carson Daly was hosting) is now more of an advertising platform for whatever artist is releasing a new album or movie that week rather than a music video countdown show.

The show used to seem cool to me when I was 13 or 14 and I can understand why. The show's concept seems more vain now or maybe that just has to do with aging and maturity. Being on the show was fun as hell even though my fellow interns and I were the only ones in the audience who could legally drive.

The guest on today's show (7/2/07) was T.I. aka T.I.P. He is a rapper from the south promoting his new album called T.I. vs T.I.P. Luckily, I know of T.I. and am a fan of some of his music. He put on two performances at TRL. His performances were carried with passion, thrilling the audience with each rhyme. He really is quite the performer and get an A+ in my book for giving everyone in the audience his album for free. Kudos & thanks to T.I.