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That backstage atmosphere must have been an utter MESS!

look at keyshia maintaining the same exact freakin pose in both photos

^^Is she high. WTF is she looking at?

looks like it!

IdentityCrisis said:

you know it had to sound like a feline shelter at feeding time back there.

Ciara, Mariah and Beyonce kind of look like the blonde weave sisters well, except Mariah probably isnt wearing a weave. But their hairstyles and their hair colors are very similar.

NaughtyKitty said:

honestly everybody up there has some extra hair sewn in
with the exception of Mary and Rihanna

...for those like me that still hadn't heard the song



(who let Fergie sing a line )

thekidsgirl said:

Beyonce really favors Etta James on this video

PricelessHo said:

If she's the woman to the very left of the photo, I was thinking the exact same thing!!

pennylover said:

its the wig I think

PricelessHo said:

Bishop31 said:

:cardboardcutout:

thekidsgirl said:

Beyonce did a tribute to Etta James tonight during the taping of Fashion Rocks, and was wearing that hairstyle. I think it looks great on her.


Mary, Beyonce, Mariah (although she looked frightened), Carrie, Leona, and Keyshia were the best vocalists during this performance. I felt sorry for Ciara, who didn't get a solo verse nor a camera close-up. The rest of them were just invited for their looks/popularity in my opinion.

I still don't like the arrangement of this song, but I hope it brings in a lot of money for cancer research.

Anxiety said:

What did Beyonce and Justin perform?




Also what song did Beyonce perform for the etta james tribute?

PricelessHo said:

I keep laughing every time I look at the photo.

Rihanna's head looks like it's been stretched. Ciara and Keisha look like robots.

Enough with the tight pants and boots over jeans!!!

thekidsgirl said:

Mary is wearing a wig.

The public has not seen Mary's real hair since she first came out.
[Edited 9/6/08 5:01am]

How in the hell is Keyshia Cole maintaining the exact pose in both pics?

I mean, even down to the direction she is cutting her eyes....freaky.

PurpleCharm said:

LMao, if you look closely at her chest area, you'll see she moved a tiny inch forward for the 2nd shot.

I'm sorry, but I can not spot any differences with Keyshia between the 2 photos.

I'm starting to believe that it is a cardboard cutout or a wax figure.
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purplesweat said:

lmfao @ cardboard cutout, just like of TBoz at the MTV Awards in 1995 when accepting their awards

I wish Miley wasn't in the song, she fucked it up IMO and screamed through it while I have to give it to the others for trying, and Fergie is annoying too

I like the key change part of the song, but it sounds no different from any song with pianos and snaps all of those female artists have done at some point from the past 3 years. It made me think of Be Without You, Irreplaceable and several others.
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miley made rihanna sound like aretha in that performance

Once again this year i have gotten the chance to work at the Fashion Week, and get to attend the taping of the concert. This years concert was better than last years but not as good as the year before Elton John played and schooled some people in the duets. The show will air (edited) on Tuesday night on CBS i believe. As for the charity song, its typical charity boredom, but for a cause that everyone should support, the only benefit song i ever heard that was good and arranged right, was Band Aid's "do they know its christmas". If i get a chance i will post pics from the show from one of the photographers that gave me a bunch (which he isnt supposed to).

lastdecember said:

Who gave the best performances of the night?

dragondayz said:

Its tough because nothing BLEW me away like 2 years ago seeing Elton. As talented as artists today are and can be, there is still that lack of the WOW factor with a performance, but i did enjoy alot. Beyonce was good,PCD did their thing well, Rihanna, though im not a fan of hers was better than past live appearances, the duets were cool, Fergie with Debbie Harry, Nicole with Ashanti and Natasha Bedingfield and Justin with Beyonce was cool too. Duffy played and she was alright but nothing special. Mariah performed and was good, and Mary J played with Kid Rock. So all in all i had fun, nothing sucked where i said good you suck, nothing blew me away where i would say HOLY SHIT! Except however being close up to Hayden Panettiere, the heroes girl, possibly one of the most gorgeous females around, its pretty scary.

lastdecember said:

Thanks for the run-down. I agree about artists lacking the WOW factor now. Its like when you hear of someone current performing at an award show. or wherever, you hardly care.

dragondayz said:

Yeah, and most of the time its an ok performance or just good, this is true mostly of the pop artists, though some do sometimes knock a performance out of the park, it tends to be the lower key artists of today that garner the wow factor.