08/09: VMAs - where did you go?
Last night's VMAs* were interesting in a sad and tragic sort of way. It's like seeing an old friend panhandling on the streets for change when no more than a few years ago he was zipping around town in a pimped out ferrari.
Let me start out with some of the most obvious issues. The host... Who the fuck is Russell Brand? I saw some of the commercials and they were poking fun at the fact no one would know him - is that really a good thing? At least he could have indicated what he was famous for up front.. that would have been nice. His act was amusing, and if Jordan Sparks would have gone fist-a-cuffs with him I would have been totally swayed, but alas no.
The next big issue I saw was the lack of a crowd (okay so "didn't see" for the pun). Once upon a time the VMAs pulled a massive crowd on par with that of the movie awards. This year it looked like it took place in a casino ballroom, with fold out chairs. I was shocked. There was an 1/8th the size there usually is. Were the fans not invited? A celeb only event?
Moving on to some of the performances - Lil' Wayne was a joke. Sagging pants are one thing, but he must have tapped those bastards to his drawers for this event.. wow... not to mention whatever bomb he dropped caught the cello player off guard with a super surprised look (right before Wayne was getting off the spiral stair case). The rest of the performances were interesting - Katie Perry singing 'Like a virgin', some act playing from the Whiskey Roadhouse, and stuff out in the Paramount back lot. It was odd to see them ship in footage to the VMA - who would have turned down that gig unless it wasn't worth it anymore?
Oh, and Christina Aguilera - yeah.. still totally hot mom..
Minor annoyances - Phelps - there is zero reason to say (unless it's truck loads of money) that while your eight gold medals are nice they are not as nice as a fifteen million records sold in one week for Lil Wayne. Those two things are not in the same ballpark.
Over all - not a horrible production but a serious cut back from past years...
*VMA = video music awards on MTV
Let me start out with some of the most obvious issues. The host... Who the fuck is Russell Brand? I saw some of the commercials and they were poking fun at the fact no one would know him - is that really a good thing? At least he could have indicated what he was famous for up front.. that would have been nice. His act was amusing, and if Jordan Sparks would have gone fist-a-cuffs with him I would have been totally swayed, but alas no.
The next big issue I saw was the lack of a crowd (okay so "didn't see" for the pun). Once upon a time the VMAs pulled a massive crowd on par with that of the movie awards. This year it looked like it took place in a casino ballroom, with fold out chairs. I was shocked. There was an 1/8th the size there usually is. Were the fans not invited? A celeb only event?
Moving on to some of the performances - Lil' Wayne was a joke. Sagging pants are one thing, but he must have tapped those bastards to his drawers for this event.. wow... not to mention whatever bomb he dropped caught the cello player off guard with a super surprised look (right before Wayne was getting off the spiral stair case). The rest of the performances were interesting - Katie Perry singing 'Like a virgin', some act playing from the Whiskey Roadhouse, and stuff out in the Paramount back lot. It was odd to see them ship in footage to the VMA - who would have turned down that gig unless it wasn't worth it anymore?
Oh, and Christina Aguilera - yeah.. still totally hot mom..
Minor annoyances - Phelps - there is zero reason to say (unless it's truck loads of money) that while your eight gold medals are nice they are not as nice as a fifteen million records sold in one week for Lil Wayne. Those two things are not in the same ballpark.
Over all - not a horrible production but a serious cut back from past years...
*VMA = video music awards on MTV
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