First, I have to say I was essentially forced to watch this. But it ended up being entertaining in it's absurdity. I haven't seen the Latin Grammys or any Country music related award shows ever but I'm pretty sure last nights VMAs was the most pathetic music awards show ever. From the immobile, sterile Britney Spears to Sarah Silverman's monologue bomb, the beginning was only the beginning of a long, embarrassing night. First of all, all of you hoping for a Britney Spears comeback (and I don't know who you are), tuck the hope away for a few years because it's not happening anytime soon. I have no idea what she was doing up there. At one point in looked like she was immitating being pregnant, which is suitable for her but just not the best impression for a live performance.
Britney Spears performance:
The night then proceeded to suck. The awards have now been given weird, hyperobolic names such as "most awesome monster earth shattering song" award. The presentation of the nominees on the screen was a sensory overload. You never quite knew when they were highlighting someone -you could only hear the song for 5 seconds -It was as if was a game and they wanted you to listen and guess who was nominated. Of course, they did say their actual names so that gave it away. Ongoing parties were boring to watch and boring to hear, as you can only watch Kanye West jump up with his arms in the air so many times or listen to the Foo Fighters play virtually the same song over and over. Unless we're at the party, why show it? It has nothing to do with awards -all it's going to do is piss us off that we're not famous enough to be there. Then gain, watching the parties, few of us would want to be there -making it more pathetic. It also seemed like the presenters were given free liberty to say whatever they wanted it was never cohesive and it was capped off by Jennifer Garner announcing the "Gym Class Fallout" as the Best New Band.
Sarah Silverman's monologue:
There were a couple redeeming aspects -homeboys from Superbad, Seth Rogan and that dude form SNL introduced the "Best new Artist" nominees throughout the show, imploring us to not vote for who we wanted to win -but to not vote for who we didn't want to win or vote for who we didn't want to lose. They were good. Miss Teen South Carolina was good as well, as she parodied herself with her signature blunder VMA style...emphasizing "such as".
Miss Teen South Carolina:
Rumor has it, Kid Rock walked up and decked Tommy Lee. This probably followed Tommy Lee's antics, when he kept yelling something at his ex during Pamela Anderson's speech about something no one remembers. Another bizarre point of the awards, which could have been a highlight had we known what the hell he was yelling. It was like it was a free-for-all for all the presenters, attendees and anyone at the local parties. Whatever it was, it royally sucked.
Tommy Lee vs. Kid Rock:
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