Well…Well…Well.
M(ha!)TV’s annual VMA awards show is finally upon us this year and I can BARELY contain my excitement…
Yeah…my “excitement”.
This year’s line-up has SOME star-power but what does it all mean ? I mean : Green Day, Alicia Keys and Pink. They are all great and all…but where are the current crop of Pop’s “Tops”? Plus, if you are going to pull some of the “new old-guard” out for this type of thing…can’t you do better MTV? Sorry, It had to be said. These artist are all very good but they are kinda irrelevant nowadays.
Yeah, I said it.
Maybe their new albums (the real reason they are even going to be performing in the first place) will justify this line-up? Maybe not.
Either way, It leads me to the same spot/thought that I find myself in every year the VMAs roll around : do I watch it and be disappointed again ? Or do I watch it and be bored (but expected to be bored in the first place)?
Decisions…Decisions.
It is no secret that the VMAs have been regularly crappy (on and off) for nearly the last 10 years . The last really good VMAs that I can remember was the 2006 VMAs . The one where Britney Spears choked and nearly ruined her career and Rihanna took the “Pop Princess” crown away from her. Britney has since bounced back in a VERY big way (even though some damage was done) but the VMAs themselves have been in a rut. Besides some great individual moments scattered over the last few years (Lady Gaga’s superstar-making performance is the most obvious…along with Pink’s high-wire act when she was a little more “relevant”) the VMAs have been a SNOOZE-fest.
Am I getting too old? Is this why the VMAs don’t have the same magic anymore. I would like to think that this is not the case. I still LOVE and OBSESS over music (always will) so I seriously doubt that my passion for the IDEA of the VMAs is the cause of my lackluster reaction to the yearly event. I think the real culprit is MTV’s general lack of interest in music nowadays (and they focus on reality television which is SOOOOO profitable now). MTV isn’t invested in music anymore and it shows.
Where is Nicky Minaj? Lady Gaga? Adel? M.I.A (who is LONG overdue to be given her chance to ROCK the VMA stage)? Hell even Madonna and Kylie Minogue are more relevant that Pink and Keys (no disrespect to either one)…Where are the cool new rockers ? I know and listen to them .
Bring in some Brits dammit.
I know that I am going to watch the show tonight. Call me a hopeless devotee to the idea that music and MTV still matter.
I might be wrong .
yeahhedid! 
The VMA’s were surprisingly much better than I expected. They were actually pretty good. The Host was good. The performances were really good…enjoyable