12.16.2008 - Original "ATLM" Banned?

Hi Scorpion,

I heard somewhere that the original video for A Tout Le Monde was banned from MTV. I've seen the video and think its cool. Is this true, and if so could you shed some light on why?

Alister

Hi Alister, yes this is true. Dave Mustaine wrote about this on the Megadeth Forums in March of 2007. Here is what Dave had to say:

"A Tout Le Monde", as most of you know, and all of the know it alls know, was from Youthanasia.

The video was banned, the single was shelved, and without your loving support of a truly beautiful song, it would have died.

MTV banned it because they said, "it was a song about suicide," as did many people, but why would the line, "I'd love to stay with you all be in there? It would need to say something like, I want to die, right?

And I had a manager at the time that was told along with me by MTV not to use Director Wayne Isham because we had used him too much; odd request, but I heard them loud and clear.

Of course management didn't listen and tried to slip it in to MTV under a pseudonym and MTV flipped. They are/were pissed at me for something I didn't do and I would be ok if it was something I did, but I told the manager, and David Ellefson can attest to this, NOT to use Wayne.

Their solution was to ban the $300,000+ vidi, and radio in America was following MTV very closely at the time, still do to an extent, and did not play the single.

The song was left at the altar. I got sent a bill.

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