(The other thread was put in the wrong forum so this is an actual one)

 

People have the annual hate-fest when these awards come around, last year especially, but I think MTV deserve a leeeetle bit more credit. I thought the show was quite wild, it wasnt a spontaneous bunch of surprises that was promised but it was alright, definately better then last year.

 

I think they had the right idea, there was a whole lot of random things, basically there was like a hundred tiny musical pieces from 3,000 different rap guys but at least that meant there was nothing incredibly dragged out.

 

It opened horrifically, that was the cheesiest damn thing I've ever seen someone try and get away with. I seriously was laughing. P Diddy talking over these cheesy 80s synth, it sounded like a B movie sci-fi intro, it was hilarious, and for its hilarity (Even though it wasnt intended) I was at least happy from the start.

 

One of the worst things about the show was the constant flashes of celebrities reactions of what was going on. Here's MC Hammer, here's Usher grinning and nodding his head, here's Beyonce looking bored. 60% of the show was actually the show, the other 40% was clips of celebrities acknowleding what was happening, looking really bored (And I mean, if you're sitting in a stadium seat beside Missy Elliot your not going to stand up and do something interesting now are you?).

 

Grandmaster Flash was a wonderful idea, he pretty much DJ'ed for the commercial breaks and when they came back in. He did have a small segment for Diddy and some other guy to dance, which was horribly co-ordinated (Diddy hardly moved), and it didnt help that the rather confusing 40 second performance of MC Hammer performing a dance remix of 'Cant Touch This'. I dont think it was horrible, but not quite in the right place.

 

I liked Fat Joe's introduction to 3 latino hip-hoppers, doesnt me I actually enjoyed the music, but the idea was there. Green Day's performance was good enough. Shakira was, hot. The Killer's sounded pretty bad, but put on a good show. Brandon Flowers needs to stick closer to that mic stand lean, he's really not built for moving around slickly. My Chemical Romance are brutal but they got the crowd going at least (Much to do with the light show over anything, I tell ya). Kanye West and Jamie Fox was just great. 50 Cent was very, forgettable. Basically does the same damn performance every year. And Kelly Clarkson was pretty good as the closing act. Its hard to pull things off like that at award shows, and jumping in the rain almost made her mic cut out, but it didnt, and it was a success. Coldplay was nothing special, sounded off, it was cool when Chris ran up into the crowd though. Sortof.

 

Basically, you cant blame MTV because they dont even choose what's on their channel. In a funny way I kind of respect this. They play purely what the masses want to hear, even if it's stupid, idiotic, trendy and pointless music, they play what people want to hear and remove their own opinions and their own favourite music (Like some of those god damn DJ's you hear on the Radio).

 

MTV is all about popular music, obviously popular music of late has been unmentionably bad, so they did the best show with what they could.

 

But do remember, its nearly 2006, Rap has been popular for a while, and this year it has been completely overblown, so much so that it's just become ridiculous. The "Anything can happen" theme was basically P Diddy giving away his watch or Kanye blowing up a bunch of money into the crowd, it was really shallow.

 

When something get's overblown to the extent of last night's VMA's, its got to go down hill and the next thing will crop up. Next year, I'd say, expect a lot more rock.

:angry: OI! IT was not... :angry:

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15840&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

 

 

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