As was with previous years, the hype for the MTV Music Video Awards was in overdrive. Once again they tried to make you believe that the show will be groundbreaking and thrilling beyond belief. That you will witness once in a lifetime performances...yada, yada, yada....Let's just say Britney Spears opening performance was the perfect summary of the evening to come. Dull, bloated, lethargic and EXTREMELY BORING!!! It will easily go down as a perfect example of how NOT to do an awards show.
First off, I am now totally convinced Britney's career is over, kaput. Her performance was really embarrassing, you just kept waiting for the punchline that inevitably never arrived. She moved about the stage with the grace of baby elephant and the expression on her face, as she attempted to lip sync, was vacant and almost stunned. You just couldn't help but be horribly embarrassed for her, especially when it was all over and you realized it wasn't supposed to be a joke.
Next came the divinely funny Sara Silverman who MTV would have you believe, through their endless promotion, was suppose to be the host of the show. She was fierce as ever and held no punches, especially when it came to Britney-she did a live re-enactment(with her lips)of Britney's vaginal region. The audience was almost silent during most of Sara's monologue and you felt the uncomfortableness right through the TV screen. Sara must have realized she was on a quickly sinking ship and exited the building immediately after her routine-'cause I don't recall seeing her at any other time throughout the evening. Good for her!
The production values of the show were a spastic mess of annoying graphics and horrible, clumsy segue ways. They had several hotel suites at the Palms(where the show was broadcast from) in which live performances were occurring throughout the show and they would keep cutting to performances in midstream-most of the time not identifying who was performing. The couple performances staged within the main theater were hardly exciting or memorable.
Apparently the most exciting event of the evening occurred during a commercial break when Kid Rock came off the stage and cold cocked Tommy Lee. Too bad that didn't happen live on air-it would have added the one single memorable moment of the evening.
The show really highlighted the state of the mainstream music industry, shallow, talentless and living on life support. The main performers they did actually show-all lip synced, the main focus seemed to be all about dancing. The other strange aspect of the show is that it was primarily about rap artists, I mean where the hell were the rock bands?! OK, so they had Fall Out Boy and the Foo Fighters and friends(though Fall-Out Boy doesn't really qualify as "rock") in one of the suites-but you never saw an entire performance from either of them, only snippets between commercials. Then the "Best New Artist" went to Gym Class Heroes whose claim to fame is a remake of Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" -which sucked in 1986...and this qualifies a band as "Best New Artist"? Sad, just sad.
I guess this whole sham of an event should be expected as MTV rarely even shows an entire video on it's channel anymore(Justin Timberlake even pleaded with MTV during two different award acceptance speeches to "play more videos...".) Perhaps they should scrap the video awards entirely and do a "self-righteous teen reality show awards show." They could have awards for the least annoying teen, the most annoying(though they all are), the most money squandered in one episode award, the most crying in one episode, the best hair award...well you get the idea. I want the 3+ hours of my life back damn-it!
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