Trump's Demands, Mariah's Meltdown, Anthrax Scares: An Oral History of 'TRL' Billboard Billboard. On Sept. 1. 4, 1. MTV’s Total Request Live debuted, airing from a glass- box studio hanging above New York’s Times Square. There was no studio audience, no fans waiting outside carrying imploring signs.

The glory days of ’9. American Bandstand for a new generation, hosted by a neo- Dick Clark in black nail ­polish named Carson Daly. Fans would vote on their favorite clips by phone and email, and the top 1. But within six months, TRL became appointment after- school TV, its studio at 1.

Broadway a pop- culture fishbowl where rabid teens could catch a glimpse of their favorite stars (when the Backstreet Boys or 'N Sync would drop by, the police would have to shut down Times Square). The thrill of the show was built into its name: It was live, so ­anything could happen. Eminem teased a post- Funky Bunch Mark Wahlberg on- air. Sean “Diddy” Combs spent an entire hour running on a treadmill, while Britney Spears stood by with a hand towel. In one of the show’s most infamous moments, Mariah Carey came by with an ice cream cart, apparently unannounced, to promote Glitter, rambling, “I just wanted one day off when I could go swimming and look at rainbows and eat ice cream and maybe, like, learn how to ride a bicycle.” (A week later, she was hospitalized for exhaustion.)When Daly departed his post in 2.

VJs kept the show thriving. But with the advent of You. Tube in 2. 00. 5, TRL’s viewership sagged, falling below 4.

Nielsen. (The “unscripted” series The Hills, meanwhile, was getting 4 million ­viewers - - a harbinger of where MTV was headed.) After 1. TRL went off the air on Nov. 1. BSB! Snoop! Korn!). In advance of the relaunch on Oct. VJs, along with members of core TRL acts like 'N Sync, Destiny’s Child and blink- 1. Daly- stalkers, Eminem’s tears, Mariah’s meltdown and all the moments that made TRL- - in the words of Korn’s Jonathan Davis - - “just a cool- ass time.”IN THE BEGINNINGJC Chasez (’N Sync): Every generation has their Soul Train or American Bandstand.

And TRL was the biggest show in music television. Brian Mc. Fayden (VJ/MTV News anchor 1. Call it “the frosted- tips era.”Bob Kusbit(co- creator/executive producer; MTV senior vp production): When I said Carson should host, there was silence in the room.

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He was too white bread for a lot of the brass. There had been talk of, “Let’s get Chris Rock to host it!”Tony Di. Santo (co- creator/executive producer; MTV president of programming): Some people thought Carson was just another Simon Rex. The Times Square studio had been a bank.

It was unorthodox. There were sound issues when The Lion King was playing matinees on Wednesdays.

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Kusbit: At first, we didn't have a studio ­audience. It was more like Wayne’s World. We had to beg people to request videos. Then suddenly, someone shows up with a sign: “Carson, bring me up to the studio!” In the control room, we’re like, “Carson, bring him up!” The next week, there are 1.

Then 4. 0. Deb Savo (senior producer): At 8 a. I’d check this fax machine for the 1- 8. People would say, “It’s rigged!” I was like, “Listen, you can wake up at 7 a.

Dave Holmes (VJ, 1. The ­timing was just perfect. If the pop and rock moment had still been bands like Fastball and Semisonic, I don’t know that the show would have exploded. But suddenly, there are all of these young personalities that our audience is interested in.

Savo: It got to the point where the city was like, “What the hell is going on between 4. Street every day at 3 o’clock?”Chasez: It was great for the ego. You felt like a dignitary.

Kusbit: Six months after we launched, when the Backstreet Boys came, there were 5,0. Times Square. The police told us to lower our blinds because kids were ­backing up into traffic to try and get a view into the studio. Shawn Witt (production assistant and, later, showrunner, 2. Eminem had an Eminem lookalike called Partial Mathers.

They would use him as a decoy, then scoot Eminem into the car. Kusbit: Here’s the dirty secret: The glass was not bulletproof. Bulletproof glass costs so much more. Anytime all these people went and stood in the window, you would sort of hold your breath. A CULTURAL JUGGERNAUTDavid George (production assistant and, later, executive producer, 1. You never knew who would pop by or who might be talking to each other.

Damien Fahey (VJ, 2. Eminem was on for 8 Mile [in 2. He had the No. 1 album in the country and the No. 1 movie. Times Square had to be shut down. There were, like, 1. Lauren Waters (casting assistant, then ­casting director, 2. He started to tear up.

This tough guy was so touched that all of his fans had come. Susie Castillo (VJ, 2. Mariah Carey would show up with her own lighting crew. Bruce Willis showed up in a cab - - like, he took a yellow cab to the studio by himself. Savo: Britney Spears came to the show with her mom and younger sister.

We were like, “Who’s the fan who got past security?”Fahey: I remember Taylor Swift came with her mom, when she wasn't Taylor Swift yet. They had a couple of Flip cams, and they were geeking out, goofing around. La La Anthony, née Vasquez (VJ, 2. Le. Bron James came on when he hadn't started his rookie year.

I remember him being so in awe - - like, “Wow, I made it. I’m on TRL.”Kusbit: Harrison Ford wanted to come on. We were all massive fans, but we knew the kid who wanted to see Justin Timberlake might not buy into Harrison. Paul Scheer (comedian; creator of the web spoof Scheer- RL): The most ­awkward one was Céline Dion. You watch, and the ­audience is just not into her at all.

She’s making jokes, like a dad who’s like, “Hey, guys! I drink beer too!”Holmes: We were supposed to do a whole hour based around Prince. Watch The Shipping News Online Ibtimes on this page. He showed up 1. 0 minutes before the show was over, with an entourage including one huge guy who held an empty tub of like, cheeseballs, but with a sign on it that said, "Swear Jar." If you took the Lord's name in vain, you had to put coins in. Carson said to [Prince], “We were ­expecting you a little earlier, so there’s a lot we have to get through. We don’t have a lot of time.” And Prince said, “I don’t use time.” Carson, to his credit, said, “So what do you use?” Prince paused for a moment and then said, “Truth.”Castillo: The photo booth was a rite of passage.

George: Everybody went into that thing. Arizona Sen.] John Mc. Cain was in there. One time, I look down at the monitor and Jewel is in the photo booth with her shirt off.

Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child): The photo booth! Beyoncé knew how to cross her eyes. And I stuck out my tongue.

Somebody stuck up the middle finger. We were being bad little girls.

Vinnie Potestivo (director of talent and series development, 1. I’d hang out backstage or in the green room because I was trying to make relationships with talent we could build shows around. I met Beyoncé when she would visit with Destiny’s Child. She didn’t want to be a VJ - - trust me, I tried - - but she did want to get into acting. Which led to her first major role in MTV’s Carmen: A Hip Hopera.

Fahey: In early 2. Tom Cruise came by, and he was really into Joss Stone.

He was backstage meeting everyone, and in every room he just talks about Joss Stone. The next afternoon, this giant box full of Joss Stone CDs arrives with a note, like, “Check it out. Love, Tom Cruise.”Anthony: Tom Cruise asked me to teach him how to dance to hip- hop on the air. I think I was smacking his butt, or he was smacking mine. Fahey: Donald Trump came once for The Apprentice.

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Born in Sydney and raised in Mullumbimby, she moved to the United States at the age of 1. She earned public recognition after releasing music videos for her songs "Pu$$y" and "Two Times" on You.

Tube. She signed a recording contract with American rapper T. I.'s Grand Hustle Records imprint in 2. Ignorant Art, a mixtape. Azalea's debut studio album, The New Classic (2. It topped the Billboard Top R& B/Hip- Hop Albums making Azalea the first non- American female rapper to reach the summit of the chart.[2] The album was preceded by her debut single "Work", and generated the US Billboard Hot 1. Fancy". Azalea was featured on Ariana Grande's single "Problem", which peaked at number two while "Fancy" was number one; Azalea joined The Beatles as the only acts to rank at numbers one and two simultaneously with their first two Hot 1.

She achieved three top ten hits simultaneously on the Hot 1. Black Widow", later that year.[6]Early life[edit]Amethyst Amelia Kelly was born in Sydney and brought up in Mullumbimby, New South Wales. Her father, Brendan Kelly, was a European- Australian painter and comic artist,[7] while her mother, Tanya,[8] cleaned holiday houses and hotels.[9] Azalea lived in a house that her father built by hand from mud- bricks, surrounded by 5 hectares (1.

According to Azalea, she has some Aboriginal (Indigenous Australian) ancestry: "My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family's been in that country for a long time, over 1. If your family's lived in Australia for a long time, everyone has a little bit of [Aborigine blood].

I know my family does because we have an eye condition that only Aboriginal people have." Azalea has also said that her father "made her look at [art] as a teenager", which has always influenced her life and work.[9] She began rapping at age 1. Before embarking on a solo career, Azalea formed a group with two other girls from her neighbourhood: "I was like, I could be the rapper. This could be like TLC. I'll be Left Eye."[1. Azalea eventually decided to disband the group because the other girls weren't taking it seriously: "I take everything I do serious [sic]. I'm too competitive."[1.

In pursuit of her desire to move to America, Azalea dropped out of high school. She worked and saved the money she earned by cleaning hotel rooms and holiday houses with her mother. She claims to have hated school, which, apart from art class, only made her miserable. She also said she had no friends and was teased for her homemade outfits.[1. Azalea travelled to the United States in 2. She told her parents she was going "on a holiday" with a friend, but eventually decided to stay and shortly afterwards told them she was not coming back home: "I was drawn to America because I felt like an outsider in my own country, I was in love with hip hop, and America is the birthplace of that, so I figured the closer I was to the music, the happier I'd be.

I was right."[1. 5] She recalled, "My mum was crying, saying, 'Just be safe.' I was thinking, 'I'm going by myself. I'm fucking crazy!'."[1. After her arrival in the US, she received her GED, and resided in the country on a visa waiver for six years, returning to Australia every three months to renew it. Azalea worked in the US illegally until February 2. O visa.[1. 7]Music career[edit]2. Career beginnings in the US[edit]When she first arrived in the United States in 2. Miami, Florida, and afterwards lived briefly in Houston, Texas.

Azalea settled for a few years in Atlanta, Georgia, working with a member of the Dungeon Family named Backbone. During that period, she met future collaborators FKi and Natalie Sims.[1. She took her stage name from the name of her childhood dog, Iggy, and the street she grew up on, Azalea Street, where her family lives to this day.[2.

She said people would laugh at her because "they thought my raps sucked." But having grown up getting laughed at, she was able to shrug it off.[2. Meanwhile, she'd met someone from Interscope Records who encouraged her to move to Los Angeles, and so in the summer of 2. She was briefly managed by Interscope.[1.

On 2. 7 September 2. Azalea released her first full- length project, a mixtape titled Ignorant Art, saying she made it "with the intent to make people question and redefine old ideals".[2. Her song "Pu$$y", was included on the mixed tape and features guest appearances from YG, Joe Moses, Chevy Jones, and Problem.

In November 2. 01. My World", directed by Alex/2tone. The video features a cameo appearance from character actor and former wrestler Tiny Lister, which earned her more attention due to its rising popularity online.[2. It's supposed to have like, all the ridiculousness of a big- budget '9. Azalea, of the video.[2. In December 2. 01. Azalea revealed she would release her debut studio album, entitled The New Classic, as soon as she signed a major record label deal: "Once that's sorted out and I establish an overall sound and direction for the album, I will be able to know what artists would make for a dynamic collaboration".[2.

On 1. 1 January 2. Azalea released the music video for "The Last Song", her third video from Ignorant Art.[2. In an interview with Billboard, released on 2. January, Azalea hinted at an Interscope Records signing, while also revealing hopes of releasing The New Classic in June, and for her debut single to precede it in March.[2. Label issues and Glory[edit]"I'm working with a different production company for my album than what I did for my mixtape Ignorant Art, and I don't know who yet. I'm still looking.

T. I.'s gonna be helping me with it, kinda like A& Ring, kinda like executive- producing. Watch A Madea Christmas Online Full Movie. He called me up and was like, 'Yo.' And I was like, 'Definitely. You're Tip. I love you, of course.' So he's gonna be kinda helping me out, like just kinda reaching out to people and helping me find production and pointing me in the direction of things that I might like.

We're gonna start on that next week together. I'll probably fly out to Atlanta and we'll do it in between there because he's weird with traveling and stuff. I understand. We're in touch with each other.

I have legal issues, he has legal issues. I get it. So hopefully that will be really dynamic and it'll help speed things along."— Azalea speaking on her phone call and decision to work with T.

I.[2. 8]Azalea reached out to Southern rapper. T. I., for the direction of her debut album. T. I. was set to executive produce.

The New Classic, soon after a phone call the two had. At the time, Azalea was eyeing a summer release for The New Classic: "Hopefully if all goes to plan, my album will be out in June and I'll have it recorded by the end of the month."[2.

However, after Interscope did not allow T. I. to be an ongoing part of her deal, Azalea opted not to sign with the major label and stay independently signed to Grand Hustle Records, until the release of her first album, which had then been postponed.[2. In early 2. 01. 2, Azalea was featured on the cover of XXL, as part of its annual "Top 1.

Freshman List", along with fellow up- and- coming rappers French Montana, MGK, Danny Brown, Hopsin, and Roscoe Dash.[3. On 1 March 2. 01. Watch The 13Th Warrior Streaming. T. I. announced he signed Azalea to Grand Hustle Records, along with rappers Chip and Trae tha Truth.[3. On 2. 6 March 2. 01. Azalea posted "Murda Bizness", the intended lead single for The New Classic, on her You.