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MTV Pretends to Care About Music
“one day a year when MTV pretends to still care about music,” the show had a chance to prove him wrong with a VMAs more packed with music history than any in recent moncler sale outlet memory.
It still wasn too convincing. Maybe just convincing enough to continue, for another year, the farce that MTV still has anything to do with music. Which is the whole point of the VMAs, right?
The theme was time travel, or something, and lots of artists took it seriously: Lady Gaga brought up Brian May, whose song with Queen, “Radio Gaga,” inspired her name. Jay Z and Kanye West invoked Otis Redding, not super successfully. And Gaga paid tribute to grizzled music veteran Britney Spears.
But here the thing: No one, with the exception of Gaga, Adele, a pregnant Beyonce and a couple of others, seemed that into it. Usually it doesn matter: No one expects anything but perfunctory performances from the VMAs (or Grammys, or any other awards show). But usually MTV lucks cheap moncler coats mens into or creates some kind of outrageous moment distracting enough to make us moncler outlet prices forget about the music.
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Not this year. The only moments worth talking about were musical ones, and there weren many worth remembering: Adele stunning number, Gaga amusing schtick as her alter ego Chris Gaines sorry, Jo Calderone uk moncler outlet and Beyonce joyous number, performed moments cheap moncler sale after she announced her pregnancy on the red carpet.
But the show couldn generate a shock. Britney demurred on kissing Calderone. Cloris Leachman pairing with the “Jersey Shore” women moncler outlet was boring and irritating.
We wondered last week how she could moncler usa go weirder than a meat dress or showing up in an egg, and we guess she sort of did. She also won over the traditional rock types by performing with May.
Dave Grohl looks psyched. Britney Spears, who goes on to receive a special award and the first prize of the night, look confused.
9:23: Jay Z and West cheap moncler jackets womens making his semi triumphant return to the VMAs perform best moncler jackets “Otis” from their new “Watch the Throne” collaboration. It never really uk moncler sale takes off because the song didn work. It a boring loop with no beat, and Otis Redding, being dead, doesn get to do his best work. Kanye, Jay and Otis Redding: Three great tastes that don cheap moncler jackets mens really work together.
9:27: Foo Fighters win best rock video, despite MTV not playing a Foo Fighters video moncler outlet woodbury in 37 years.
9:36: Will Ferrell, Jack Black and John C. Reilly reprise their roles as the Beastie Boys from that one video. Ferrell thinks the Beastie Boys pronounce the future “the futah,” but they actually pretty good about not adopting fake rappy accents. Aside: I don quite get this whole routine. In 1986 it would make sense to imagine the Beaties growing up to look like Ferrell, Black and Reilly, but don the Beasties look a lot better than these guys despite being the same age?
9:48: Katy Perry and Kanye West win an award, and she makes a joke about him interrupting. He doesn And so the awards remain boring. She seems not to understand that the theme of tonight show, so far, is phoning it in. Breathtaking.
10:12: Justin Bieber accepts discount moncler jackets an award wearing intellectual looking glasses. He ups the ante by thanking not only God but Jesus. That on some Elvis type s right there.
10:18: Chris Brown embraces the time travel or whatever it is theme by moncler outlet online doing a dance medley of mostly other people songs, including Wu Tang Clan “Protect Ya Neck” and Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The VMAs become moncler outlet store vaguely fun. monclerdownjacket Then he starts flying, which is fine. He starts off standing in front of bars, which might be a grim commentary on his violent past. Or just because they look cool.
10:28: Gaga presents Spears the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in her Calderone suit. She says Brit Brit moncler outlet used to influence her when she would play open mics in New York, presumably referring to Britney folk years. She also says she used to have a poster of Britney on her wall and touch herself. Sexual tension thus established, cheap moncler jackets she stands around expectedly when Britney takes the stage, but a kiss is not to be. “I done that already,” Spears explains.
Oh, we almost forgot: moncler online store As if to taunt everyone who complained about moncler sale online Britney outfits when she was 16, the VMAs fill the stage with prepubescent girls dressed up in Spears various sultry costumes. Check back tomorrow moncler womens jackets for our outraged parents story.
10:30: Beyonce, who announced her pregnancy on the red carpet, sings a buoyantly happy song. Her hair looks amazing, the dance steps are cute and pregnancy approved, and her and her backup singers outfits are straight out of “The Five Heartbeats.” We defy you to say anything bad about her. No, seriously, don
10:40: MTV shows how much it care about heart and stuff with an obligatory appearance by local band made good Young the Giant.
10:55: Cloris Leachman and the “Jersey Shore” ladies do a little routine about how she not a grenade and no one her age knows moncler uk outlet who they are and oh my God people of all ages can say bad words on TV.
10:59: Lady Gaga accepts an awards and says “you were born this way” whether you gay, straight, bi or transgendered. It a nice moment.
11:06: Russell Brand doesn sugar coat it in a memorial to Amy Winehouse. He moncler outlet sale says he thought of her as “a moncler sale daft dopey person” and couldn believe when he heard her voice “coming from that crazy person. A person that I just knew that would walk away stinking of the booze. Just a loopy loose cannon person.” Then he realized she was “a genius.”
11:10: Tony Bennett compares Winehouse to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday, as did Brand. Then he plays one of her recordings from March a duet they did together and she sounds devastating.
11:15: Bruno Mars does a lively cover of Winehouse cover of The Zutons “Valerie.” He pompadoured and in full mode. Wait: Between Calderone and this, is doo wop a thing? The VMAs are really trying to prove they know their music history this year, aren they.