Monday, September 13, 2010

MTV Video Music Awards

MTV Video Music Awards
September 12, 2010 -- MTV

The MTV Video Music Awards are the one awards show where it doesn't matter who wins; it's all about the water cooler moments.

In that regard, last night VMA's were lacking: no one Kanye-ed the stage. There was no buzz-worthy moment, unless one took offense to Lady Gaga's Meat Dress.

But stand-out performances by Eminem & Kanye West, plus the anticipation of a never-to-materialize Kanye-Taylor Swift reunion, were enough to lure 11.4 million viewers.

We've never been big fans of first-time host Chelsea Handler, but she was on her game. She peppered the MTV reality stars from "Jersey Shore" with herpes and unwanted pregnancy jokes. Handler's best line of the night was when she pointed out that she was the first female host since 1994, "when 'The Situation' was just a classy way to refer to a teenage pregnancy & Justin Bieber's mom had just given birth to her 401K Plan."

Swift sang a song that supposedly was inspired by last year's Kanye acceptance speechus interruptus. Couldn't make heads or tails out of the song, except the chorus where she kept singing 'you're still and innocent' over and over. Cryptic and opaque.

It's been a year already, and Kanye has apologized 4,000 times. It's time for Taylor to let it go.

Lady Gaga won a bunch of awards, but we forgot which ones. We were too mesmerized by that darn Meat Dress.

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