It’s Britney, b*tch, at the VMAs
The silver anniversary of the MTV Video Music Awards last night were mostly gray around the edges. No lesbian kisses. No rapper tantrums. No host of note.
The show kicked off with Britney Spears’ first award after 16 winless nominations and ultimately handing the recovering pop princess three awards, including video of the year for “Piece of Me.” Not even a train wreck to watch there. A bit cold and manufactured, but everything a modern pop star ought to be.
Host Russell Brand, a British comic with little US cred, basically made fun of the Jonas Brothers and their vows of premarital celibacy. Dude, stop ripping on the teenagers and go get some of your own.
This year the show was at the Paramount Studios lot in Los Angeles with promises of “nothing being what it seemed” (hey, Brand, it seemed boring, okay? I understand how a backstage lot works, okay? Stop stepping over “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson’s lovely, lovely lines)
But MTV did deliver on the performances. The Jonas Brothers played their song “Lovebug” on a fake building’s stoop, before the set fell away and throngs of screaming fans ran down fictional city streets to surround them (I’d have gladly joined them to drool over the Beatles-esque ensembles and mellow vocals – don’t worry two of the three are legal. I checked. I’ll leave lil’ Nick for the throngs of angsty teens).
And I have new love for “American Idol” champ (and fellow promise ring wearer) Jordin Sparks, who defended the brothers while presenting an award: “I just wanna say, it’s not bad to wear a promise ring because not every guy and a girl wants to be a slut, OK?”
The eight awards for the night were:
Best male video – Chris Brown, “With You”
Best rock video – Linkin Park, “Shadow of the Day”
Best dancing in a video – Pussycat Dolls, “When I Grow Up” (um, if they can’t do that well, what hope is there for this group?)
Best new artist – Tokio Hotel (this was my “I’m so old moment”. Not only did I not know who these guys were, I wanted to fix their horrible, horrible hair)
Best female video – Britney Spears, “Piece of Me”
Best pop video – Britney Spears, “Piece of Me”
Video of the year – Britney Spears, “Piece of Me”
For many, many, many photos of the big night, visit the Celebutopia Forums here.
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I posted this comment in a thread on the Celebutopia forum. I fits more appropriatley here. Truthfully, I don’t even know why I posted it anywhere at all. I don’t care about Britney, the VMA’s or anything else about any celebrity for that matter.
Read it anyway.
The 2008 VMA’s where fixed so Britney Spears would win. MTV couldn’t have their little princess get snubbed. Where would that put the fate of the world. If her video was the best of the year, that doesn’t say much for the future of MTV.
I pray that Britney sees this as the shining light of her career, takes her kids back to Louisiana and lives the rest of her life in obscurity.
Run Britney! Run as fast as you can.
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The 2008 VMA’s where fixed so Britney Spears would win. MTV couldn’t have their little princess get snubbed AGAIN. Where would that put the fate of HER world. If her video was the best of the year, that doesn’t say much for the future of MTV.
I pray that Britney sees this as the shining light of her career, takes her kids back to Louisiana and lives the rest of her life in obscurity.
Run Britney! Run as fast as you can.