VH1’s “Pop-Up Video” turns 20 today. Here are some facts about the seminal music video commentary series. It seemed like too much work Woody Thompson and Tad Lowe pitched 10 ideas to VH1, but when they got to the “Pop Up Video” idea of putting factoids about each video on screen, network executives exclaimed, “”Wait, you’re going to have people read TV?” A couple of big hits made it possible Though network executives were skeptical of the idea, they tasked the series creators with making a pilot, which they did, with Alanis Morissette’s “You Learn” and TLC’s “Waterfalls.
- 10/27/2016
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Thirty years ago this week, Video Hits One began offering the too-old-for-mtv crowd a sensible alternative. That channel would eventually grow into the entity we know today as VH1, and with that name, it would nail that pop culture nostalgia sweet spot with series like Behind the Music, VH1 Storytellers and more. But above all the VH1 hits, it was Pop-Up Video that captured the hearts and minds of a certain kind of media-addled, know-it-all geek. The series first exploded in 1994, and our culture of nostalgia and trivia obsession has only grown stronger in the Internet age. With a hat...
- 1/8/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
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