Something I overlooked in my special edition TOM PETTY newsletter: his innovative music videos. Among the small group of classic rockers who instinctively understood the power of video, Petty was one of the most consistently inventive and almost certainly the most prolific. His MTV VIDEO VANGUARD AWARD was as well-earned as anything in his statue collection. I've always had an affinity for "YOU DON'T KNOW HOW IT FEELS," a single five-minute shot in which Petty stands on a slowly spinning stage in a blue hoodie and brown floppy hat while a carnival of random, non-linear strangeness unfolds behind him. It's quintessential Petty, emblematic of an artist who was always inventing and dreaming and moving forward even while his musical muse was happily, stubbornly, defiantly doing its own thing... A minute-long tribute to Petty seemed out of place on Tuesday's second episode of MTV's rebooted TRL, partly because the show doesn't seem ready to adopt a serious tone but also because of the whole video thing. MTV's choice to bring back its video countdown without either videos or a countdown may be the revived show's savviest idea. The chaotic, freewheeling blur of blink-and-you-miss-it moments has a SNAPCHAT-like feel; it mimics the way pop fans interact with pop stars in 2017 better than video ever could. So stop complaining about that. What's not clear yet is if the show's producers and sprawling collection of hosts are good at making Snaps. The cameras sometimes seem to be pointing the wrong way and the hosts look perpetually confused, as if they're the ones who blinked and missed and there's still 10 seconds of airtime to fill and what now? On the other hand, the studio windows overlooking TIMES SQUARE look as great as ever, and I'm not going to complain about ED SHEERAN, MIGOS, PLAYBOI CARTI and NOAH CYRUS playing live (or at least live-ish) on my TV the past two afternoons. Just maybe rehearse the whole show a little more, or something... The single most heartbreaking, and human, piece I have read about what it was like to be in LAS VEGAS Sunday night... ROSANNE CASH responds to Sunday's terrorism by laying down a challenge for her country peers in a NEW YORK TIMES op-ed... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is now in previews on BROADWAY and isn't ruling out extending the run beyond its currently planned 16 weeks. He is, however, ruling out writing an "anti-TRUMP diatribe." He recommends CHARLES M. BLOW for that job ... Changes at the top at WARNER BROS.... RIP APEX.