Idolator

Last night, TRL said goodbye, and while doing so, it listed the ten most influential videos that hit it big on the program. Normally, a TRL list wouldn't be worth the oaktag its cue cards were printed on, but surprisingly, whoever made the picks for this list pretty much nailed it; the ten songs truly did define the five-year span during which pop was ruled by MTV's afternoon countdown show. You rarely see an era officially ending, and you almost never get the era to sum itself up so accurately, so now that we're five years past TRL's hegemony, let's try and figure out what it was like—and figure out what era we're in now. More »

Tired of hearing about how UTTERLY AMAZINGLY MIND-BLOWING that Daft Punk show in [your municipality] was? Jealous you weren't there? (I was—nyah-nyah-na-nyah-nyah. And it was indeed amazing.) Well, now you can relive it thanks to Rich Juzwiak's 10-minute highlights video. No, it's not like being there, but as a condensation of a pretty amazing audiovisual spectacle it'll do just fine.

Oh is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? [fourfour]