The Foreign Songs They Used to Play on TVM

This is an Apple Music playlist of the random songs that somehow ended up on Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s propaganda channel, TVM (Television Maldives). The versions we saw were always heavily censored and often had terrible quality. Imagine something that’s been through several rounds of censoring via a VCR, then transmitted over the air to basic CRT TVs. Most of the songs were used as filler, while others aired during Siesta (hosted by “Inthi”) or on Spotlight (hosted by “Munko”). Sometimes they’d also show a heavily edited and censored version of “Top of the Pops” (UK).

I am in the process of writing a more thorough write up about this, but for now here is some music.