The world needs Kayne West...
Sep. 13th, 2009 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirth...to remind us that even legitimately talented and hard-working people can be complete assholes who are deserving of ridicule.
I haven't watched the VMAs in years, but if I was going to spend two hours storing up pop-culture discussion fodder, this is the best time investment I can think of.
Madonna gave a really fantastic introduction to the Michael Jackson tribute. The Michael Jackson tribute itself was fantastic.
Katy Perry and Joe Perry covered Queen to open the awards portion of the show, and I sort of feel like that was all Russel Brand's concept.
Lady Gaga showed up with Kermit the Frog as her date - no, really - and wore 4? I think? outfits through the evening, including one red lace bodysuit thing that included a stocking-like mask over her face and some sort of crown. Her performance, some song that I hadn't heard yet but I am going to guess is called Paparazzi, if she goes with her usual highly-complex naming convention, was Phantom at the Opera themed, and ended with her dripping fake blood from what looked like a stab wound to the chest and suspended 6 feet above the stage.
Green Day kicked ass, and Billie Joe could give lessons on stressing out security. I bet. He told the random audience members in the pit to get up on stage so he could surf.
Pink sang Sober while performing aerial acrobatics, harnessed to high heaven, but still very cool.
Uh, I feel like I'm missing something.
My conclusions: I do not love Russel Brand. I also? Do not love Kanye West. I could not be less interested in Twilight if I tried.
It is really unfortunate that Kanye decided to be [more of] an asshole [than usual] tonight, because I am really liking Run This Town. I'll bet there will be a version with him edited out of it somewhere on the internet by morning, and it is very lucky for everyone that that's not the track Jay was set to perform tonight. That would have been a total train wreck. I don't entirely understand Jay-Z's last-minute arrival at the VMAs, but Beyoncé is made of awesome tonight from her performance to giving up her acceptance speech for video of the year so that Taylor Swift could have the moment that Kanye stole from her.
In other news, I spent the day at an end-of-summer cookout with friends from high school and friends-of-friends. I remember why I don't talk to some of them anymore. Lovely people, but getting them to talk is like drawing blood from a stone. Awkward.
I haven't watched the VMAs in years, but if I was going to spend two hours storing up pop-culture discussion fodder, this is the best time investment I can think of.
Madonna gave a really fantastic introduction to the Michael Jackson tribute. The Michael Jackson tribute itself was fantastic.
Katy Perry and Joe Perry covered Queen to open the awards portion of the show, and I sort of feel like that was all Russel Brand's concept.
Lady Gaga showed up with Kermit the Frog as her date - no, really - and wore 4? I think? outfits through the evening, including one red lace bodysuit thing that included a stocking-like mask over her face and some sort of crown. Her performance, some song that I hadn't heard yet but I am going to guess is called Paparazzi, if she goes with her usual highly-complex naming convention, was Phantom at the Opera themed, and ended with her dripping fake blood from what looked like a stab wound to the chest and suspended 6 feet above the stage.
Green Day kicked ass, and Billie Joe could give lessons on stressing out security. I bet. He told the random audience members in the pit to get up on stage so he could surf.
Pink sang Sober while performing aerial acrobatics, harnessed to high heaven, but still very cool.
Uh, I feel like I'm missing something.
My conclusions: I do not love Russel Brand. I also? Do not love Kanye West. I could not be less interested in Twilight if I tried.
It is really unfortunate that Kanye decided to be [more of] an asshole [than usual] tonight, because I am really liking Run This Town. I'll bet there will be a version with him edited out of it somewhere on the internet by morning, and it is very lucky for everyone that that's not the track Jay was set to perform tonight. That would have been a total train wreck. I don't entirely understand Jay-Z's last-minute arrival at the VMAs, but Beyoncé is made of awesome tonight from her performance to giving up her acceptance speech for video of the year so that Taylor Swift could have the moment that Kanye stole from her.
In other news, I spent the day at an end-of-summer cookout with friends from high school and friends-of-friends. I remember why I don't talk to some of them anymore. Lovely people, but getting them to talk is like drawing blood from a stone. Awkward.
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Date: 2009-09-14 06:28 pm (UTC)I don't even know what to say about Kanye, seriously. I wouldn't have even cared if it had been his own category he pitched a fit about, but it's just tacky to have dragged Beyonce into it on top of stepping all over Taylor. Maybe that's just it, that he can't make a big enough scene with his own drama anymore.