Upon the completion of last night's disaster of an award show, my first thought was that it's going to be uglier than Britney's extensions at the MTV offices today. I foresee heads rolling. My second thought was that I needed to rewatch Britney Spear's performance, but I realized I couldn't. It was that bad, for those of you lucky enough to miss it. The woman who used to bring the house down couldn't even lip-sync properly, had serious trouble standing still, let alone dancing, and pretty much put on the most listless, embarrassing, shoddy performance in VMA history. I'm sure there was some sort of sedative and/or alcohol involved. Anyway, it's rough watching a career terminate before your very eyes. Don't think I can do it again any time soon.
And the new format, with the main stage and all the little parties in other rooms, was confusing and annoying, even though it allowed for more performances. The whole thing was sloppy and unorganized. My highlights and lowlights, plus pics galore after the jump.
• Beyonce's outfit. Why? Also it was a nip slip waiting to happen.
• Alicia Key's performance outfit. Why? I don't love hearing new songs for the first time at award shows, but she made up for that with her rousing George Michael cover.
• Tommy Lee and Kid Rock fighting would have been the most interesting part of the show if it hadn't happened off camera. How excited were the black artists that it wasn't them?
• Jamie Foxx, you're only allowed to go off on wild tangents if you're actually going to be funny. You flustered Jennifer Garner so much she gave an award to a fictional band named "Gym Class Fallout."
• Did anyone notice Kanye's mom rocking out in the window-blinds glasses during one of his performances?
• They could have showed Cee-lo singing Prince's "Darling Nikki" a little longer, I think.
• Between Dr. Dre and Timbaland, which super-producer is hitting the steroids harder?
• Rihanna beats Beyonce for best video???? I think she did a great job at the awards, so I'm not going to hate at all. And she looked wonderful.
• Justin Timberlake = my white boy crush (of the last seven years. Shut up.)
• Chris Brown = my young boy crush of the last 24 hours. Okay, so, like Britney, he failed to actually sing during his performance. But unlike Britney, he brought. the. house. down. This kid is a dancing machine, and, for that, I forgive him the lip-syncing. I couldn't bring myself to rewatch Britney, but I did watch Chris Brown and Rihanna's performance again. Best of the night.
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I tuned in specifically to see Britney and it this point it's REALLY not funny anymore. I mean it really isn't. I felt bad for her and I don't usually get that invested in celebreality. I want her to really go sit down somewhere and re-evaluate.
I want who ever is in charge of booking to STOP booking Sarah Silverman. That trick is not funny. The jokes about Britney's kids were not cool. People's kids are off limits.
I saw Chris Brown, he was very good. Alicia Keys was on mute whilst I was phone-pimping so I'll have to catch her on the remix show. Other than that it was way too busy, so it made my head hurt and I changed the channel. I ended watching Design Star…LOL!!!
I tivo'd it and haven't watched all of it yet, but I swear Britney looked stoned. That girl REALLY needs help.
In disagreement with Tiffany, I LOVE Sarah Silverman but I do agree that the jokes about Brit's kids went too far. I like insult humor, so I really like Sarah.
I felt verry sorry for Britney. I do a group for people with Bipolar Disorder and I'm convinced she has it. Many women dont start to develop symptoms until after child birth. I wish she had stronger people in her camp that could convince her to get help.
I could even watch the whole show I thought it was a mess. I only caught the end of Alicia Keys and while I heard people say it was really good at the end it sounded like hollering to me.
Chris Brown made me his new fan. And how old is Dr. Dre??
I thought she could only go up after showing her cesaren wound. I guess I was wrong.
Britney doesn't want to perform anymore. It was so obvious last night. I don't think she was stoned and I don't think she has bi-polar. Anyone who has ever been around performers knows that look: stage fright. It was obvious the way she was looking around the room and forgetting words that she was thinking too much - instead of going into the "flow" as performers are supposed to do. She's been taking a beating for the last 4 years and I think all that stuff she's been hearing caught up to her in that performance. She just strikes me as someone who no longer has the stomach (literally and figuratively) for performing any more. She is under contract to put out more records and she needs to keep the $$ coming in which means she HAS to perform. Not a good thing for someone who never had talent to begin with (although she was once a decent dancer) and shattered self esteem.
The rest of the night was cool…except Dr. Dre and his YOUNG shirt made me suspect. LOL. He's too old to have lats like that. Hahahaha.
I have to disagree with the Britney opinion. When OK! mag couldnt use her interview the reports on every other mag said she kept stated that the ceiling was caving in on them and asking the interviewer if they could see it too. That sounds quite psychotic. Also she has seemed very depressed in interviews like that Primetime one last year. I know she's under stress but it seems like more. I'm not a psychiatrist though so its just my opinion.
Oh ya, I meant couldn't even watch the whole show in my above post. Monday morning!
I don't think being crazy would preclude you from having stage fright, would it?
And I think if she was really psychotic she probably would have run off stage - if she is seeing crazy things and hallucinating. That experience would bring on an episode for sure. Also MTV showed her rehearsal footage where she was relatively fine and not scared as shit. I don't know - maybe she is crazy, but she's not so crazy that she can party or go shopping or go out to restaurants with little psychotic behavior?Maybe she has post pardom or something??
I felt so bad for Britney's dancers. Look at them working it and homegirl look like she's going through the first practice session. WITH THAT WEAVE!
Alicia's performance outfit was 100 times better than her dress. Both were fug.
Timbaland's always been big. He got a little bigger, but Dr. Dre just went Incredible Hulk on our asses overnight.
Rihanna's video was different. Irreplaceable's video was not all that.
BMD - Your assessment is dead on. She looked like a deer in highlights last night and that's what I kept focussing on: how damn scared she looked.
She looked more bored than scared
The whole Britney "performance" made me angry and sad. I was like watching Anna Nicole and the whole loopy "you like my body?!" thing from the AMAs. Sadly, everyone else knew it too.
Chris Brown's performance was the only good thing of the night. And Sarah Silverman is NOT FUNNY!
I bet the parties in Vegas were great and Robin Thicke kinda, sorta changed up his outfit. A little…
Oh..yea..the Sarah Silverman disaster was terrible. She is so not funny. I'd love to see her and Mel Gibson go at it in the Thunderdome. He could hurl racist remarks and she could hurl really mean and unfunny jokes. Me thinks it would be a draw.
Brit is on dope and dr. dre is on that barry bonds. other than that the show was planned by someone w/ ADD, no disrespect to the people out there w/ ADD. the tommy lee and kid rock thing was just a "cultural" thing.
Though I'm offended B_W, I see what you mean. I liked the suite performances. I'm just unable to listen to entire songs so it worked for the most part. It's just like what I do with Pandora online or the fact that I have 50+ windows open in Firefox at the moment.
I agree about Britney being bipolar. I am bipolar and so is my son, and she has been showing symptoms for a long time. It is very typical for people with BP to self medicate with alcohol and drugs.
and I still like Sarah Silverman….LOL