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VTV Channel Parodies MTV, Playing Cheesy Novelty Songs 24/7

Originally posted on Nerdist | By Eric Diaz | Last updated Aug 28, 2025 6:41 PM ET

In the ’80s and ’90s, nothing was a bigger cultural tastemaker than MTV. Long before it became the home to endless reality shows, it played nothing but music videos 24 hours a day. If you wanted to know the latest rock, rap, and pop hits, you simply had to tune in. To say it left an imprint on the hearts and minds of Gen X and elder Millennials is something of an understatement. Now, via Laughing Squid, we’ve learned about an homage/parody of that peak era of MTV called VTV. It plays the weirdest (and often most grating) novelty songs of all time on a loop.

NEW THING Brace yourselves for VTV, our music video TV station featuring HUNDREDS of odd/terrible novelty songs vole.wtf/vtv/
— VOLE.wtf ⁉️ (@vole.wtf) 2025-08-20T09:39:33.901Z

The creators of VTV are the folks at Vole.wtf. Operating since 2002, the owners describe it as “a weird, random nonsense site.” Which we’d say is fair. It certainly recalls the Wild, Wild West days of the early internet. Everything about this website recreates that bygone era. It emulates those online golden years before anyone monetized the internet. The VTV player pulls random songs from YouTube to provide a unique musical experience for every viewer. Luckily, one can find even the most obscure novelty song from yesteryear on YouTube these days.

Novelty hit songs are largely a thing of the past these days. But once upon a time, someone could get a hit song based entirely on humor, or a gimmick. This isn’t quite the same as a parody of an existing hit song, like the entire catalog of Weird Al Yankovic. Although we suppose they count too. Examples of novelty songs penetrating the mainstream include “The Purple People Eater” in the ’60s, or “Pac-Man Fever” in the ’80s. Some of these are actually well-crafted and fun, but a lot are just extremely annoying. So head over to VTV to see how much you can handle, and for how long.

This article first appeared on Nerdist and was syndicated with permission.

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