Sure, VH1 had them too, but MTV really introduced the world to the concept of the VJ aka the Video Jockey. And for a while, the world was enamored by the concept and everything that it introduced to pop culture.

Remember that infectiously catchy song "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles? Well, that quote definitely describes what was going on in the 80s to a tee.

Suddenly the western world was obsessed with not only hearing their music, but they wanted to see it too. Music videos gave us an extra added dimension to our media consumption. Before we'd have to listen to the old transistor radio, buy the LPs and read Rolling Stone from cover to cover to get a peek into our favorite musical artist's lives.

This was long before the internet. You couldn't just follow the musician's social media pages, subscribe to their YouTube channels, and memorize their Wikipedia entries.

But then in 1981, Music TV aka MTV launched in America and the world of music would never be the same. Artists like Adam and the Ants, Duran Duran, and even Madonna owe a great deal of their success to this new form of musical media.

And for the next two decades before the rise of streaming services and faster internet speeds, MTV was the place to watch this blossoming art form.

The MTV VJ used to be someone that everyone who had a TV was familiar with. MTV was the backdrop of American life back in the day. These fresh-faced media personalities were the ones to introduce the world to the music that was actively changing the world.

It was a big deal. It wasn't like today where social media, YouTube, and blogs influence our lives and culture more than anything. MTV was the thing and the VJ was the face of that thing. Facts Verse is going to take you on a little journey back in time once again to find out what it was like to be a VJ for MTV back in those days and just what has happened to the 5 original Vjs over the years.

It looks like they all went in separate directions but many of their stories tell a similar tale of what it was like working for MTV In a time when the world was in such a state of flux. The cold war was going strong and tensions in the world were running heavy. Find out what that had to do with the success of MTV and the music video. You won't believe what was really going on behind the scenes of MTV in those early years.
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