The same can be said for the other music award shows as well. The Grammys, The BET awards, The SoulTrain and the AMA's ratings have all been in the toilet for the past few years. Why, I think the answer lies, in the type of music that is being produced as well as the artist that are making it. That's the reason why, these shows are so low in the ratings. I remember one could not wait to see who was going to perform, now it is more like..."When is the shit going to end. Dick Clark realized this a few years ago, when he moved the AMA's from Jan to Nov., in the hopes of not only having to compete with the other shows, but he figured that it was thankgiving and more people would be home. It did not do any good.

i can't believe how bad that show was. I used to be excited about the VMAs but now it's become a parody of itself. and omg, could that venue be any smaller?

You guys actually watched this crap?

SoulAlive said:

I know, right?! I was watching Serena () Williams win her 3rd U.S. Open and Bears/Colts.

sassybritches said:

cool. hope to catch it on youtube.

Tonight it felt like the Teens Choice Awards...

OMG...I can not believe the show was actually held in a studio soundstage.


I remember one year when the Soul Train Award Show was held in the same soundstage studio that the Soul Train Dance Show was recorded. None of the big name stars attended...the next year it was announced that there would be no more Soul Train Award Show.

Perhaps the same thing will happen to the VMAs.

PurpleCharm said:

I was just thinking that after I wrote my post. I'm just amazed at how we are all on the same page when it comes to the VMA's. It used to be so much fun to watch because it was not just about music but the unexpected would happen and it was genuine. I just can't believe that the station I used to love watching as a kid has now become fucking Teen Central. That's some fucked up shit right there.

purplecam said:

and it's not even an accurate reflection of real, living, breathing teens today. it's a corporate, commercial dictation of what they'd like teens to be so they can make the highest maximum profits. i know a lot of kids get suckered in to whatever banal bullshit the tv tells them is hip and cool, but some of that shit last night...i mean, come on.

Todays awards show is their 25th Anniversary show, and yet, there has been no mention or very little of that in the press. WHY? they have nothing to show for it, they cant even capitalize on this, because they have no status anymore. Todays show will opened by Britney Spears who will NOT PERFORM, she will just make an appearance that is said to be "fun and interesting", Christina Aguilera will perform a new version of "genie in a bottle" that is to be on her Best of set, it is also the only nod to the "anniversary" of the show? Really, performing a song barely 9 years old is your "anniversary" celebration.

Those of you thinking of tuning in dont be surprised to not see much, alot of acts are not there, despite being nominating, due to performing at the Fashion Rocks show and not being able to work it in the schedule (remember when these acts CARED to make the show?) Fasion Rocks airs Tuesday night, in edited form on CBS, and madonna fans get ready to get your HATE on as Rihanna Covers "Vogue", but most of the performances are pretty good, with the exception of maybe Chris Brown's "Lysynching" number.
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SoulAlive said:

I know, right?! I was watching Serena () Williams win her 3rd U.S. Open and Bears/Colts.

LOL @ Xtina trying to be Lady GaGa.

VoicesCarry said:

DAMN! I didn't think about that until you said it but YES! That's exactly who she was imitating! Good catch.

The awards shows get worse every year. You know suckers are broke when the awards are held in a "bootleg auditorium" I love it! Death to the bullshit awards shows Would anybody be sad if it went away at this point? They used to be edgy, which is why people tolerated the lame, mis-issued awards but now they don't have any edge or any interest. Maybe they'll give up like Soul Train did.

they really must cant get no big stars to come to the vma's no more,imagine the ratings boost they coulda had if they would have gotten the icons of the 80's who helped shape mtv (when they actually played videos) to come and celebrate 25 years. mtv might as well start giving awards to the top reality show stars of the year since thats basically what they have become

I bought Russell Brand's book and the very first chapter is him talking about being in rehab as a sex addict and having to share a room with a paedophile, so it's hardly a secret. GREAT autobiography by he way - he really has a gift for language.

LOL @ Xtina trying to be Lady GaGa.

I watch the VMAs every year because I have to laugh at something. Honestly, this show was better than last years to me. I can't even remember who hosted that piece of shit it was soo terrible and it wasn't just Britney either. MTV stopped being about music when the music industry stopped signing real musicians and started signing puppets. Not 100% MTV's fault because all award shows are pretty crappy nowadays.

Maybe one reason MTV couldn't get clearance for Radio City Music Hall is because many of the designers at fashion week were either premiering anticipated lines (Justin Timberlake's 'William Rast Collection') and also celebrating their big anniversaries, so of course NYC, one of the fashion capitals of the world, is going to give fashion more love than the VMAs. Either an overpriced designer's fashion show or an overhyped award show...hmmm?

I thought Russell Brand was funny. Anyone who calls Bush a retarded cowboy and makes a comment about how he wouldn't be allowed to hold a pair of scissors in the UK is good in my book. He made some pretty funny jokes, but for the same reason that everyone hated on Sarah Silverman last year, one joke that people deem mean or offensive causes someone not to be funny...uh, aren't most comediennes mean, lewd, and/or offensive at some point in their careers? I thought the promise ring thing was funny as hell, but apparently people get made about that type of thing. All he was saying is, "Seriously, you aren't going to have sex until marriage? That's great, but what if you get into a serious relationship? You still aren't going to have sex? So after you marry this girl and you find out the sex is awful to the point of being unbearable, what are you going to do?" Sex is pretty important in a marriage from what I've been told by many married people. I guess getting divorced is better than having sex before marriage nowadays. More power to them, but they can keep the promise rings. I like to test drive the car before I start making payments. I'm just sayin'.


Rhianna can't sing live, but that big ass staircase/pedestal/podium thing was interesting and her boots in both performances were kick ass.

Don't get the Jonas Brothers at all. When I was watching them all I could think about was Hanson: The Next Generation. MMBop anyone?

Lil Wayne is like 4 feet tall and was running his ass off, but he didn't skip a beat, which is a good quality to possess IMO. I didn't get why Leona Lewis was there with him, but she sounded very nice. T-Pain is the Lil Jon of this year pretty much.

Pink's performance was awesome. She usually always delivers the goods and I saw her taped up nipple...twice.

Kanye can sing? Didn't really understand half of what he was saying, but I'm glad he didn't bitch this year...wait, I'll have to wait a couple days before I can clear that statement.

T.I.'s skit was kinda funny, but that song is mad catchy and I liked that new song with Rhianna.

Parramore...all I can say is, Damn, that girl was running her ass off and didn't miss a single note. One of the girls that I work with said that she was the only one offered a record deal and she told the label that if they didn't take the whole band, then they weren't getting her, so kudos to her for that.

Kid Rock sucked...hated that song when I first heard it on the radio, and hate if even more now. Nobody in that room got up or showed any enthusiasm for his entire performance. Totally didn't get the Lil Wayne bit at all...maybe he owed Kid some money and this was how he repayed the debt because that performance was garbage.

I liked Christina's remake of 'Genie In A Bottle'. If she had come out sounding exactly like the original, I would have been disappointed. She has said many times that her first record was more the input of her record label and producers than her own. Plus, the original is soo bubblegum pop sounding that it would be weird hearing her sing it now, because that's not her style anymore. It would have been nice if she hadn't lip-synced it...bad Christina! I didn't get until the end of the performance that she and all the dancers were a superheroes. Didn't much like the song, but the performance was cute.

Tokio Hotel was interesting, especially since my spaced out ass totally couldn't believe that the one with the black hair was a dude. He's pretty.

I agree with many about Lupe Fiasco and Katy Perry. Lupe is really good and Katy was hyped from the beginning. LL Cool J has his 13th album about to drop and all of them were put on right at the commercial break.

Everyone from the Hills can suck ass. It's a scripted 'reality' show...fake reality, not that's an oxymoron for ya. Seriously, all the starving people in the world and MTV is paying these losers thousands of dollars to take up space and air.

Paris Hilton is the stupidest person on the earth. It was worth watching the show just to watch that tranny looking heifer stare in the wrong direction and then turn and say, "Oh, I was looking the wrong way." Uhh, you think so, genius?


Britney looked very nice last night, but she was only there with her manager, which I found odd and a little sad. She looked a little lonely at points and out of her comfort zone. Not a fan, but am happy to see she's looking healthy and on the right track. I never knew that she had never won a VMA, especially since she was MTV's golden girl from '99 to about '02. She had a Susan Lucci moment, so yay for her.

I was a little confused by Perez Hilton during the post show when he said, that nobody thought Russell Brand was funny because he made fun of the Jonas Brothers and then he starts saying that the gossip in the UK is that Russell Brand is a sex addict....uhhh, and? Then, he makes himself sound even more 'intelligent' when he says how he's on the VMA voting committee and that he voted for Britney because he felt that, "She needed it". What the fuck does that mean? Does that mean that the three awards that she won were because the voting committee felt sorry for her or something? So, she got three awards: one called 'pity', one called 'sympathy', and one called 'hope', from the statement he made.
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VoicesCarry said:

7.3 ratings would suggest they are still relevant. go figure, i thought the show was crap.