By Kennedy
Kennedy's off-the-wall memoir reliving the pop song and the insanity as an MTV VJ within the 1990s
"I am Kennedy from MTV, and irrespective of the place i'm going a person has a narrative to inform me in regards to the time we grew up together."
Known to thousands just by her heart identify, Kennedy helped deliver the leading edge of tradition into our dwelling rooms in the course of the Nineties via her outrageous segments as an MTV VJ, host of Alternative Nation, and on-the-spot correspondent for MTV information. She interviewed all people from fame-averse Seattle rock musicians to vapid celebrities and politicians, asking the taboo questions not anyone else may as she navigated among actual artists and phony poseurs. In The Kennedy Chronicles, she provides us a behind the scenes go on the final golden years of the cable community that outlined a generation.
As in simple terms Kennedy can, she takes us again to unforgettable moments similar to Nirvana's seminal functionality on MTV Unplugged, the unbridled bacchanalia of the MTV seashore residence and Woodstock '94 pageant, and the game-changing "Rock the Vote" crusade. We learn of necessary moments―on and stale set―with such performers as Bjork, Pearl Jam, Weezer, without doubt, 9 Inch Nails, Radiohead, Oasis, and the crimson scorching Chili Peppers. And Kennedy dishes on behind-the-scenes antics with MTV colleagues together with Jon Stewart, invoice Bellamy, Kurt Loder, and Tabitha Soren.
Straddling the road among witness and player, Kennedy recounts a blitz of surreal encounters: Dragging Stewart to a strip membership. Getting bare with Jenny McCarthy. enjoying cube at the men's room ground with Michael Jordan. Wrestling with Trent Reznor. Taking "Puck" Rainey from The genuine World to church―and residing to remorse it. Making out in a coffin with Dave Navarro. Dodging calls from Courtney Love. Serving as John Rzeznik's muse for the Goo Goo Dolls hit tune "Name." And there has been that…incident…with big apple Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the Video tune Awards. eventually, Kennedy intersperses her riotous narrative with necessary, candid interviews with Navarro, Henry Rollins, Billy Corgan, Pat Smear of Nirvana, Matt Cameron of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, former VJ John Sencio, and extra.
In her frequently edgy and irreverent voice, Kennedy can provide a juicy and revealing narrative ideal for Gen X and beyond―and for someone who desires to understand what really went on at MTV.
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Down the hall at the twenty-third flooring I heard humans gasp and cheer. you may inform we have been successful, i'll always remember the sensation of pride. I have in mind the scores got here within the subsequent day, they could have doubled, with a word from Tom Freston that stated, “Great task. ” Did you are feeling accountable for my future health having employed me at this kind of younger age? i might certainly describe our dating as having loads of intensity to it. We boarded a aircraft to visit manhattan urban, that was once your flight to big apple. At that second as you have been leaving, we had already been via a fine looking outstanding trip, it introduced us nearer jointly, there has been no manner we wouldn’t by some means at the different aspect of this have a significant, lasting dating, a relations form of connection, which we’ve consistently had. At this aspect i used to be twenty-six, I had loved luck in radio already, yet like somebody I’d made loads of titanic, rapid judgements that had had loads of effect, most likely optimistic or unfavourable. And so having caught my neck out without adventure in tv, with out event constructing on-air television expertise, just a couple months into my activity, I stated, “Oh, i feel we must always rent my intern shape KROQ, Kennedy, to be a brand new VJ! ” and that i can truthfully say, and this isn't attempting to pat myself at the again, I don’t imagine lots of people could have performed that. Lisa Berger, who was once a VJ expertise scout as a part of her paintings, had, independently of me, confirmed that she observed whatever in you to boot, and that helped my case and made me consider higher approximately it. however the evening after we boarded the airplane from los angeles to ny jointly, you confirmed up on the airport, you have been donning a cowboy hat and also you could have been donning cowboy boots too, I’m now not fallacious approximately this [no, no he’s not]. I took a glance at you and that i have in mind my response was once, “Kennedy appears like a celebrity to me this night. i feel this is often all going to see. ” All evening i used to be at peace with the concept you have been going to teach up in big apple and every thing was once going to be tremendous. What used to be your proudest/most disappointing second looking at me? you're a part of my lasting legacy at MTV, that's regarded as person who used to be cool, credible, genuine, clever, and fearless, and also you are an enduring instance of these fearless credible genuine judgements made in the course of my time there. To take anyone who's within the demographic of MTV and make it paintings. you've got been the single MTV on-air character who used to be relatively, actually within the viewer demographic. You have been the viewer and also you have been at the channel! additionally, I take into account being on the this night exhibit [February 1993] within the viewers and looking at you return out and take a seat at the sofa subsequent to Jay and never having the ability to variety it out in my head. My mind couldn't do the paintings. i used to be imagining this intern from the radio station who spoke back request traces, then we hurlted into ny and there you have been at the this night exhibit and that i couldn't think what i used to be seeing. That used to be wild. As i used to be leaving his Beverly Hills place of work the place he’s launching Diddy’s new all-music channel, I requested him to validate my parking.