aside from recently watching marathons of americas next top model on mtv, i havent watched mtv in years. i don’t really know the point at which i outgrew the channel, but there is absolutely nothing on it that interests me anymore. i have not watched the VMA awards in years either, since i stopped liking anyone relevant in the pop music world. but i had to find a vid online of britney spears opening performance. mainly because i read perezhilton.com and he left an oh so nice message to her on his site hahahaha. i had to see it.
wow did it suck. never a britney fan, i am not afraid to give praise where praise is due. like christina aguilera. she’s fantastic. don’t like her music for the most part but she’s fucking talented. britney. she’s had some good moments i guess, but this was not one of them. we all know she, like most pop stars who dance (ahem jackson family) lip sync. ok no big deal. but she could have at least learned the words to her song to make it slightly convincing. she also didn’t dance. just walked around, and sometimes shook boobs and pelvic thrusted. she got helped around stage by backup dancers. all in all it reminded me of michael jackson at his (recent) worst. she even learned that, hold the mic to your mouth to cover up how bad you’re lip syncing thing, that MJ was always so good at. i could give a shit if she’s popular ever again, but i would hope that SHE gave a shit about it. but from the looks of the “performance”, she doesn’t. oh well. so sad. maybe all the little girls out there who want to be teen pop stars will learn a lesson – don’t marry a loser backup dancer and pop out 2 kids in the prime years of your career. pull a madonna and don’t start having kids til you’re 40.
amusing from an article on the VMAs: “MTV brought the show to Las Vegas for the first time, hoping to reverse a sharp slide in viewership for its awards bash.” maybe more people would watch if the show didn’t completely suck, and the music industry was pumping out artists that were at all good. or if mtv would let trent show a photo of george bush on stage during “the hand that feeds”. hahaha
i’m so hoping i can sleep. pleeaaase let me get a good nights sleep. i have stuff to do tomorrow and i’d like to go find some docs that are suitable for work down on elmwood.