Remember when Kurt Loder and Serena Altschul gave us our news between MTV programs and it was either real news or music news and no fluff? Well, you'll be glad to know MTV is consistent - they didn't just kill the music in MTV, but also the news in MTV News. Bright side: if they hadn't done that, we would never have such captivating pieces as "13 Struggles From 2005 That Today's Teens Will Never Know." I don't remember doing a lot of struggling in 2005, but let's have a look.
3. Listening to music in the car required a cassette adapter thingy.
They're talking about for their iPod. How rich was the writer of this piece? In 2005, I was using a cassette adapter thingy for my CD player because, like many young people, I had a used car and couldn't afford an iPod.
5. We had to agonize over who was in our "Top 8".
Yeah, okay, I'll give them that one. That struggle was real.
7. Flying meant long wi-fi withdrawals.
We had wi-fi in 2005? I was barely not using dial-up.
13. Miley Cyrus wasn't famous yet.
But we had adorble, unspoiled by Disney Big Fish Miley. Life was simpler for all of us.
So it's not only fluff, it's fluff that is about a much better 2005 than I lived in. Thanks for making me realize how really real my 2005 struggle were, MTV News. I would have been blissfully oblivious without this top notch reporting.
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