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Reply #60 posted 08/25/13 7:07pm

KCOOLMUZIQ

President of Pop @jtimberlake has made pop history with this performance!!!

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Reply #61 posted 08/25/13 7:14pm

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[Edited 8/25/13 22:53pm]

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Reply #62 posted 08/25/13 7:15pm

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NSYNC would have been fun if the sound wasnt so Fucking bad. confused

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Reply #63 posted 08/25/13 7:15pm

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3 second nsync lol. cam view is cool on mtv.

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Reply #64 posted 08/25/13 7:26pm

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All I can say that Justin Timberlake gave one of the most spectacular, awesome performances in VMA history only to have it marred by god awful acoustics in the arena.

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Reply #65 posted 08/25/13 7:38pm

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Reply #66 posted 08/25/13 7:46pm

KCOOLMUZIQ


It happened ... *NSYNC JUST PERFORMED ON STAGE ... but if you blinked you might have missed it.


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Reply #67 posted 08/25/13 7:46pm

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JT delivered a good show but he ain't no king of pop lol Don't shit yourselves!

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Reply #68 posted 08/25/13 7:46pm

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Wait for Gorilla you guys..

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Reply #69 posted 08/25/13 7:50pm

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The sound is horrible, Bruno sounds like hes singing from the bottom of a well.

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Reply #70 posted 08/25/13 8:07pm

KCOOLMUZIQ

Rih-Rih 'n Will

Rih-Rih 'n Will @ VMA's! Plus peek a boo Jaden...

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Reply #71 posted 08/25/13 8:12pm

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lazycrockett said:

The sound is horrible, Bruno sounds like hes singing from the bottom of a well.

[Edited 8/25/13 20:05pm]

The sound actually was awfull during the whole show

I noticed that the microphone wasn't too good for JT

but Bruno's micro was good.

And the performance is the best of the night.

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Reply #72 posted 08/25/13 8:16pm

Gunsnhalen

Bruno was not bad... he is talented and all but i think he is a shitty songwriter i just can't get into his stuff.

The rest of the performances from what i saw were for sure just meh! and the sound was also pretty bad as many have said.

I am not one to usually just come on and say the VMAS suck because every year there is some good... but this year lol just wan't feeling any of the performances.

Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener

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Reply #73 posted 08/25/13 8:22pm

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Gunsnhalen said:

Bruno was not bad... he is talented and all but i think he is a shitty songwriter i just can't get into his stuff.

The rest of the performances from what i saw were for sure just meh! and the sound was also pretty bad as many have said.

I am not one to usually just come on and say the VMAS suck because every year there is some good... but this year lol just wan't feeling any of the performances.

your completely NUTS

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Reply #74 posted 08/25/13 8:23pm

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Bruno sucked. sorry dont see it...

here is the full JT performance

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x13nzdq_13vmajt_lifestyle

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Reply #75 posted 08/25/13 8:26pm

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Shawy89 said:

lazycrockett said:

The sound is horrible, Bruno sounds like hes singing from the bottom of a well.

[Edited 8/25/13 20:05pm]

The sound actually was awfull during the whole show

I noticed that the microphone wasn't too good for JT

but Bruno's micro was good.

And the performance is the best of the night.

See I thought this was gonna be his break out Big Time introduction to America where he was going to break the glass ceiling and become the next big thing, which Im fine with. But the sound, the camera work and the performance didn't stand out at all. I wish him the best, but this performance didn't do what it should have.

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Reply #76 posted 08/25/13 8:28pm

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GeorgieAto said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Bruno was not bad... he is talented and all but i think he is a shitty songwriter i just can't get into his stuff.

The rest of the performances from what i saw were for sure just meh! and the sound was also pretty bad as many have said.

I am not one to usually just come on and say the VMAS suck because every year there is some good... but this year lol just wan't feeling any of the performances.

your completely NUTS

Sorry, i think his songwriting is cheesy shrug just my opinion don't take it seriously brah.

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Reply #77 posted 08/25/13 9:42pm

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Well I came for Bruno Mars (of course) and I think his performance was the best of the night (surprising I know razz). But Justin's was good--2nd best performance of the night, and I agree the audio for his & NSync's performance sucked big time! LMBO at the "President of pop!" lol Since they cant give him the King of pop title his people felt they had to come up with this title. So who's eventually gonna be called the Vice President of pop? The Prime Minister of pop? The High Priest of pop? The First Lady of pop...disbelief

And barf at Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke's performance. They both should be embarrassed especially Miley but I'm sure she's feeling pretty good about what she did up on that stage (I refuse to call it a performance) disbelief

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Reply #78 posted 08/25/13 10:10pm

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OlSchool said:

Beetlejuice!

Beetlejuice!

Beetlejuice!

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Reply #79 posted 08/25/13 10:44pm

Gunsnhalen

Are there any rock bands that even perform at the video music awards anymore? is it all hip-pop and r&B?

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Reply #80 posted 08/25/13 11:43pm

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

At Video Music Awards, a Lot to Look Away From

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Katy Perry performs during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in Empire-Fulton Ferry Park on Sunday.

We experience things in reactions now, rather than head on. As has become the norm, the best way to engage with the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, which aired on MTV Sunday night from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, was to follow along with the slanderous jokes and instantly-available GIFs of memorable moments on Twitter.

Inside the arena, too, it seemed as if not paying direct attention was the norm, if the cutaway shots during the show of the famous and bored were any indication – One Direction studiously mute during the brief ‘NSync reunion, Drake averting his eyes as Miley Cyrus twerked, Rihanna barely moving her head for anyone.

To be fair to the celebrities trapped inside the Barclays Center, though, there wasn’t much to look at during the VMAs this year, and even less reason to look at it. An award show celebrating music videos that are almost never aired on MTV, it is the final thread connecting the MTV of Snooki and “Teen Mom” to its roots – this was the 30th annual installment of the extravaganza. At this point, it serves largely as an implicit rejoinder to the Grammys, a place where the kids can play safely without fear of Adele stealing their lunch money and Moonman statues.

Given that, it should at minimum be both disturbingly loose, and also reflective of pop’s true tidal waves. And yet both were only sometimes the case during this show, which lasted a little more than two hours, with seemingly 20 percent of that time given over to Justin Timberlake, recipient of the Video Vanguard award, and by the age curve of the room, a village elder. (He also won video of the year, for “Mirrors,” as anticlimactic a winner as this award show has ever seen.)

Mr. Timberlake was on trend in way, though: this was a banner year for clumsy white appropriation of black culture – the shambolic, trickster-esque performance by Ms. Cyrus, to whom no one has apparently said “no” for the last six months or so, which included plenty of lewdness and a molestation of Robin Thicke; the ubiquity of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the clumsy and intensely popular hip-hop duo, who were recipients of three awards, including best hip-hop video. They also performed “Same Love,” their gay rights anthem, with the singer Mary Lambert, though when Jennifer Hudson emerged to duet the last part of the song with Ms. Lambert, it felt like a sort of apologetic compensation for the night’s whitewash. (For good measure, Eminem announced the details of his new album in commercials sponsored by Beats By Dre.)

This year’s ceremony was also a tribute to the stubborn persistence of pop. There was the extremely brief but still exciting reunion of ‘NSync, a group plenty of artists in the crowd grew up on (to wit, Taylor Swift’s agog reaction shot). Four-fifths of Danity Kane, one of the groups made by Diddy on “Making the Band,” also announced a reunion on the red carpet.

The award for artist to watch was won by Austin Mahone, a ninth-generation Xerox of Justin Bieber. The British boy band One Direction won best song of the summer, a fourth-quarter fabrication of a category dreamed up by marketing executives. But even an award that fake shouldn’t have gone to One Direction over Daft Punk or Mr. Thicke, who was nominated for four awards for his resilient, buoyant “Blurred Lines,” and was both shut out and tasked with playing straight man to Ms. Cyrus’s wily narcissism during his performance.

The show also began and ended with the reigning women of pop. Lady Gaga opened with a frenzied, costume-change-happy rendition of “Applause” (which also appeared as the soundtrack to commercials for Kia) and Katy Perry closed the night energetically performing “Roar” in a boxing ring erected at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ms. Perry’s performance especially stood out, as did Ms. Cyrus’s, though for opposite reasons. There was also a pair of strong hip-hop performances by Kanye West, who emoted largely in silhouette, and Drake, who both sang and rapped.

For every standout artistic moment, though, there was a questionable logistical one. At various points, the show was bedeviled by slipshod editing, selective bleeping of offensive language, and intermittent problems with lighting and, especially during Mr. Timberlake’s career-spanning medley, sound.

Bruno Mars’s performance didn’t suffer from any of these mishaps – it was purposely unflashy, much like the man himself, and it was also one of the best. On a show that had little use for it, it was a solid artistic statement – and no one seemed to notice.

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Reply #81 posted 08/25/13 11:47pm

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Reply #82 posted 08/25/13 11:49pm

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OlSchool said:

Will Smith And Family Hilarious Reaction To Miley Cyrus MTV VMA Performance

lol

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Reply #83 posted 08/26/13 12:00am

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The VMA Awards:

All of the convenience of black-sounding music without the inconvenience of the presence of black people.

Yeah, I said it.

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Reply #84 posted 08/26/13 12:03am

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Taylor mouthing STFU when Harry spoke. confused


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Reply #85 posted 08/26/13 1:47am

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BlaqueKnight said:

The VMA Awards:


All of the convenience of black-sounding music without the inconvenience of the presence of black people.


Yeah, I said it.



lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Reply #86 posted 08/26/13 2:03am

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the funny thing about the VMAs....

it's supposed to celebrate the year's best videos,but they don't even show videos anymore,do they? lol

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Reply #87 posted 08/26/13 3:53am

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Gunsnhalen said:

Are there any rock bands that even perform at the video music awards anymore? is it all hip-pop and r&B?

I believe you have to watch the Grammy Awards for that. As far as the VMA's, I think they've strayed away from the rock bands for a few years now.

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Reply #88 posted 08/26/13 3:58am

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BlaqueKnight said:

The VMA Awards:

All of the convenience of black-sounding music without the inconvenience of the presence of black people.

Yeah, I said it.

Tell it. clapping

As for Miley Cyrus' trifling mess...disbelief That was a catastrophe and an embarrassment. For Robin to have even been associated with that was ridiculous. I'm wondering what's up with him these days. For all his talent, he's sort of turning into a circus.


I didn't see Bruno's performance...I'll have to catch it on Youtube.

I did catch JT's half hour performance and while it was better than all the mess that went on before him, it's STILL not one of the immaculate performances in VMA history. Sorry. I do sort of wish the NSYNC reunion was more than 1 minute and 30 seconds. lol

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Reply #89 posted 08/26/13 4:03am

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Thank god for Timberlake..

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