Tearin' Up My Charts: How MTV's 'Total Request Live' (and Pop-Culture Democracy) Got Rigged
Prepare yourself for the warm glow of late-'90s nostalgia: In the era of boy-band supremacy (and a little Korn), the 'TRL' countdown was America's high-school cafeteria — a daily election of cool for youth culture. Until one fateful day in music history, twenty five years ago this week, when a chain letter set off a…
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