The MTV Europe Awards took place at Liverpool’s Echo Arena last night. Katy Perry and Jared Leto hosted. Both also won awards. (Huh?) Britney Spears won a couple, too, though she didn’t attend. Tongue-and-cheekily, Rick Astley nabbed “Best Act Ever” via presenters Perry and Perez Hilton. (The end is near.) Pink, Tokio Hotel, and Kanye West were also winners. West (with Estelle), Killers (trippily, with feathers), Beyoncé, Kid Rock, and Paul McCartney all performed. The biggest presence was Barack Obama, even though he wasn’t there. Perry, who got “Best New Act,” wore an Obama shirt, as did Leto. Mr. 30 Seconds also reportedly led the crowd in a chant of “Congrats, Barack.” The only thing able to compete with all the Obamamania were the Beatles: McCartney was there because he received an “ultimate legend” award presented to him by Bono. As AP reports:
Bono hailed the ex-Beatle as “St. Paul McCartney” and the “one person in this hall tonight whose work is immortal.”
McCartney’s acceptance speech was more modest. “I want to thank my mum and dad,” he said, going on to pay tribute to his bandmates in The Beatles, the people of Liverpool and Americans, “for voting in Senator Obama.”
Backstage, McCartney said he had a song he thought the new U.S. leader would like for his wife, Michelle Obama — the Beatles ballad “Michelle.”
We have videos, including West, Perry riding a huge tube of Chapstick, and hopefully the last Rickroll ever.
Kanye & Estelle – “Love Lockdown”/”American Boy”
Killers – “Human”
Katy Perry – “I Kissed A Girl”
Katy Perry & Perez Hilton – Ricky Astley “Best Act Ever”
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what the fuck @ that last video. not only was that the lamest category ever, (not to mention katy perry is depressingly uncharasmatic), but most of the people there didn’t even get the whole rick roll thing. and did katy perry really just make a “what, what, in the butt” reference? shut up, katie perry.
kind of sad that the killers gave the best performance
Sadly, it was still 10 million times less embarassing than the american VMA’s and actually contained bearable performances (or at least the Killers were quite the visual orgasm).
The Wombats were good. Post that one!
How about the last Katy Perry appearance ever? A guy can dream.
How about the last Perez Hillton appearance ever? The world can dream.
footage of rick astley accepting the award:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
good for him.
I hate Katy Perry’s music and everything she stands for, but I still want to have sex with her. What’s wrong with me?
no, i feel ya. she’s a % of everything that’s wrong with music today, but i’d like to do it to her really hard, like hot date style in spring break.
Hey Killers, nice touch with the Echo and the Bunnymen nod at the end of your performance. Cheers.
can katy perry suck any more? seriously, her performance was unbearably bad.
who is Rick Astley again?
The Killers performance sounded pre-recorded and was pretty much just the same as the last two videos that have been posted here, the one thing that made it stand out was the ultra cool scenography!
Congrats to whoever was in charge. That’s what you want in a pointless award show: eye candy performances.
What do you mean by “huh”? Jared Leto won 2 awards in Liverpool actually. And btw, his band’s name is 30 Seconds To Mars. There are 3 people in the band, you know? Have you actually listened to “A Beautiful Lie”. I doubt it because if you did, you would realize what millions of other people have. It is a fabulous CD and they deserved to win those awards so don’t minimize their talent.
That will definitely not be the last rick roll.