MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS: 1984-2006?
Hello, everybody. After two years in Miami, the MTV Video Music Awards last night returned to their home sweet home in New York. But from what I've seen, the homecoming was a disappointment.
The main factor? The stage at Radio City Music Hall looks somewhat similar to the Europe Music Awards, as Hamish Hamilton (who has directed those shows) replaced usual VMA director Beth McCarthy Miller this year. Another reason why it sucked can be summed up in two words: JACK BLACK! Yeah, he may have hosted an MTV awards show before -- the 2002 Movie Awards with my favorite girl Sarah Michelle Gellar -- but he didn't seem to be right. Was Jimmy Fallon unavailable or something? And whoever booked Al Gore should be fired!
The performances? Only ones I cared about were OK GO (the guys in the treadmills) and Christina Aguilera; others including Beyonce's had viewers flipping over to something decent, like the U.S. Open. Despite that, some moonmen had to be handed out, like Pink for Best Pop Video ("Stupid Girls"), an absent Kelly Clarkson claiming Female Video, James Blunt's "Beautiful" winning Male Video, and Panic! at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" being honored Video of the Year. And as far as the fashions were concerned, Beyonce, Maria Menounos, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, and P.Diddy all looked dapper and dazzling.
Thanks to its cold atmosphere, this year's MTV Video Music Awards was a turn-off, simply because we awards show junkies already had our fix with the Emmys last Sunday. And THAT, my friends, was a million times better than the VMAs!
With that said...have a great Labor Day weekend.
Hello, everybody. After two years in Miami, the MTV Video Music Awards last night returned to their home sweet home in New York. But from what I've seen, the homecoming was a disappointment.
The main factor? The stage at Radio City Music Hall looks somewhat similar to the Europe Music Awards, as Hamish Hamilton (who has directed those shows) replaced usual VMA director Beth McCarthy Miller this year. Another reason why it sucked can be summed up in two words: JACK BLACK! Yeah, he may have hosted an MTV awards show before -- the 2002 Movie Awards with my favorite girl Sarah Michelle Gellar -- but he didn't seem to be right. Was Jimmy Fallon unavailable or something? And whoever booked Al Gore should be fired!
The performances? Only ones I cared about were OK GO (the guys in the treadmills) and Christina Aguilera; others including Beyonce's had viewers flipping over to something decent, like the U.S. Open. Despite that, some moonmen had to be handed out, like Pink for Best Pop Video ("Stupid Girls"), an absent Kelly Clarkson claiming Female Video, James Blunt's "Beautiful" winning Male Video, and Panic! at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" being honored Video of the Year. And as far as the fashions were concerned, Beyonce, Maria Menounos, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, and P.Diddy all looked dapper and dazzling.
Thanks to its cold atmosphere, this year's MTV Video Music Awards was a turn-off, simply because we awards show junkies already had our fix with the Emmys last Sunday. And THAT, my friends, was a million times better than the VMAs!
With that said...have a great Labor Day weekend.
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