On this day in 2008, TRL had its last hurrah.
After 10 years and 2,247 episodes, the MTV afternoon staple that was there waiting for kids to come home from school and helped launch the careers of many of the stars now packing them into football stadiums called it quits.
Would the likes of Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Britney Spears have had the careers they had without the ultra-poppy Total Request Live pumped into screens around the world daily? Maybe.
But when you ask yourself how the new acts of today about their climb, you can bet they would have loved to have had a launching pad like MTV’s TRL.
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