Blogging live from Radio City Music Hall’s red carpet. The very, very end of the red carpet — where few of tonight’s VMA nominees bother to walk by. But I did get to meet Pink Is The New Blog, and I hear Perez Hilton is wearing something ridiculous. Got some stupid questions in to AFI, the Laguna cast, Andy Milonakis, and assorted rappers I wouldn’t recognize had their publicists not handed out bios. (YouTube footage to come.) Shakira and Danity Kane just totally blew us off. Bitches.
As far as I can tell, I’ll be watching the ceremony from a monitor in a windowless room. So consider this post the watercooler for you to sound-off if some crazy shit goes down tonight. (Fergie could get hit with a bottle. Or treadmill.)
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“Fergie gets hit with a bottle.” Yeah, that would be fun.
well she already pee’d herself onstage,so i don’t think you can top that
well she already pee’d herself onstage,so i don’t think you can top that
WRITE ABOUT THE PITCHFORK LEAK
whaaaaat Lou Reed???
Wow- JD Ryznar (Yacht Rock co-creator, Michael MacDonald) in the opening. Crazy.
if you’re just watching on a monitor in a windowless room, why not just watch from home….
the first 20 minutes has been chaos. even the planned part ABOUT chaos was chaos.
OK, actually the video feed on vma.mtv.com is pretty cool. It shows backstage stuff and it’s now showing the Raconteurs commercial break performances.
sarah silverman was just ridiculusly unfunny.
The Killers performs the best performance in 20 years!
The Killers performs the best performance in the last 20 years!
Was that moon man in the beginning supposed to catch on fire?
OK GO! were the best dancers that we’ll see all night.
OK GO! were the best dancers that we’ll see all night.
5 nominees for Best Pop Vid? Makes you feel bad for the other 2 bands who made videos this year.
Oooh… and Pink mocks Paris Hilton in her speech–so punk rock! You go, MTV! You look like my dad in a Hurley hoodie.
this whole thing is just so plastic.
although lou and the raconteurs kicked ass. but the fact that they get only thirty seconds of exposure and not a whole performance shows that real rock n’ roll has no place on mtv.
pete wentz is wearing a cape.
Holy sh*t, how old (and gay, and wearing an Elton hand-me-down wig) is John Norris?
whoa whoa whoa. Fergie pissed herself onstage? where, when, why?! evidence, please! and what PITCHFORK LEAK? fuck!
i’m so behind!
Hip-hop and pop acts like Beyonce et al can go through various dance numbers and even do two songs, but the All-American Rejects can’t finish a 3 1/2 minute rock song? Big double standard no? Beyonce’s hot though…
“shows that real rock n’ roll has no place on mtv.”
i agree, its a fuckin shame. i was really surprised at some of the wins, but if you think about todays mtv audience then it makes a little bit more sense. i watched the most mtv when i was in highschool. the majority of highschool kids these days probably dont even know who lou reed is.
Man, being thirty and out of touch with pop music never felt so good.
So pissed that I missed Lou Reed.
See, MTV tries to be hip by getting Sarah Silverman, but doesn’t get Aziz Ansari. I cannot scoff hard enough.
wow, jared leto is really cool.
Jared Leto just made a creepy group sex joke. I really want to see that scene in fight club in which Ed Norton bashes his face again.
Live-blogging at BWE!
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/08/31/live-blogging-the-vmas/
where are the killers did i miss them already?? and i love how we can’t see the live feed in canada on vma.mtv.com… what up with that???
can someone tell me how Panic! -wait for it, wait for it- At The Disco became popular?
what, no bottle this time?
for shame.
Half-assed liveblog on my blog!
http://mocomedy.blogspot.com/2006/08/half-ass-liveblog-of-vmas.html
sooo… opening another internet window to see what’s happening at the BWE live blog updates for the VMAs is kinda like changing channels during the boring parts of tv… but slower. so far the only thing remotely interesting has been ok go. well, thats all i got. i’m bored.
well, urie’s eye/head seems to have healed pretty fast from his bottling this weekend. maybe that’s because the bottle hit his arm…oh, but here i’ve gone and digressed into a previous thread.
how bad was their live performance though? all that window-dressing & choreography just to cover the fact that he can’t sing.
hey mo, why half ass it on your own blog when you can half ass it here with us? did you do a “somebody should hit panic with a bottle” joke, too?
does anyone else feel that the jackass guys are laughing waaaay too hard after they do something stupid? sure, a lobster on a tongue is funny, but not “oh god, that is going to make me fergie my pants” funny.
“hey mo, why half ass it on your own blog when you can half ass it here with us? did you do a “somebody should hit panic with a bottle” joke, too?”
Jesus Christ
No, actually I moved it to the blog because I didn’t want to take up too much of the comments.
But with your permission Jesus, I will continue here.
Hype Williams’s award thing was pretty good.
Sarah Silverman did her material. Surprise surprise, she didn’t tell any black jokes.
Even the Associated Press calls this show boring:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mtv_awards
What the hell? I just tuned in at the unfortunate moment that AFI won Best Rock Video to be somewhat appeased when The Raconteurs began to play and – they cut to some lame backstage footage???
Sorry, Lou Reed, MTV is no longer pro-rock n’ roll.
I kept switching over to I Love The 70′s on VH1, and as a result, I missed Sarah Silverman, dammit.
So have The VMA’s always been such a colossal waste of time?
11:01 – Tenacious D is on. Incredible!
regarding missing sarah silverman, you didnt miss anything.
11:02 – And now they are off the stage. Whoever said MTV cuts the rock segmens short is right.
11:07 – Jesus, please forgive me for all the hate I feel for Fall-Out Boy!
11:08 – Al Gore is on. He’s actually the most interesting part of this show.
why lower yourself al gore ?
somebody put al on a treadmill… and i dont mean to dance.
is it me or did jessica simpson look like a female body builder?
11:16 – Jim Jarmusch and Raconteurs on stage. Jack White sings “Internet killed the video star”
Rrreeeow!
black rappers, hip hop, mtv, is absolutely shit. everyone talks and says “u know what im sayin?” etc etc… this culture is awful… i liked mtv 10 years ago.. or more… but now is a joke. i cant understand black stupid stereotype people like P Diddy, or whatever is his name today. what? you are rich and im not? you have GOLD CHAINS and i dont? fuck you man. do good music. ALL of you black fucking rappers hip hop bling bling idiotic people. i say black because white people dont even try to do that. and if they do, they are kevin federline. cant be worst than that. but, what is going on with music today? mtv is saying “if you have gold chains and wear sunglasses at 10 pm, you are correct”? correct=ok=cool=whatever. call me in 5 more years. maybe there will be something interesting, creative, exciting.
lopez looks like a cancer patient…
hahahahhahaha
they won.
Um, not every rapper believes in that bling-bling bullshit. You need to step outside the box and find the rappers that don’t instead of making a broad generalization.
And P!ATD still sucks, and that video is so lame!
11:19 – The George W. Bush of punk wins Video of the Year.
j simp’s shoulders looked BROAD.
MTV sucks and there is an empty void on cable where a cool show should be. Somebody give this stereogum guy some cash so he can get his own cable channel. something like a cross between the old “120 minutes” but with new good videos, crossed with attack of the show and some VHF. Theres a void, and Stereogum TV should fill it.
j-lo’s look when six just crashed the stage was priceless. that guy rocks.
Panic at the Disco remind me of the annoying theater geek kids in high school.
So does this mean both Christina and Madonna go empty-handed tonight?
I thought Jessica Simpson had laryngitis, but she sounded fine.
Don’t people with laryngitis sound all raspy like the girl from The Exorcist?
11: 21 – Asshole Rose
j-lo’s look when six just crashed the stage was priceless. that guy rocks.
j lo’s face when six crashed the stage was priceless. that guy rocks.
11:22 – Axl Pose introduces The Killers. The Killers get center stage and Raconteurs are the fucking house band? Hmm, David Bowie better fucking pop out.
yes! i mean… im not asking for the show of the decade… just cut the crap… i dont want to watch RIDICULOUS human beings trying to make me think that “they are cool”..when they are desperately trying to make MONEY. fuck them. i want creativity, music, good things!! please!!! p diddy FUCK YOU AND YOUR SUNGLASSES!!
p.s. i don’t get the killers. i don’t think they’re necessarily a bad band, but their sound is just so blah.
Not really my cup of tea, but I thought Shakira’s performance was the best. I also loved T.I., especially when everyone was yelling along with “What You Know.”
So have The VMA’s always been such a colossal waste of time?
Posted by: Blu
A: Yes.
That proselytizing political garbage by Al Gore was this broadcast (mostly) in a nutshell: boring, preachy, nonmusical and untalented.
rusty trombone got a chuckle.
“MTV sucks and there is an empty void on cable where a cool show should be. Somebody give this stereogum guy some cash so he can get his own cable channel. something like a cross between the old “120 minutes” but with new good videos, crossed with attack of the show and some VHF. Theres a void, and Stereogum TV should fill it.
Posted by: Jesus Christ at August 31, 2006 11:21 PM”
Fuck MTV. Scott should vlog. If he got a revver and we all clicked on the ads, he would be paaaiiiid.
Panic Rocks, hate the game, not the playa
Overall, the show sucked. I miss the glory days with Pearl Jam and Neil Young.
im off to bed, that was painful.
i watched the last half hour
thoughts
1) Al Gore is a funny version of lame, and Jackass when not being attacked by alligators are just a lame version of funny… and global warming is not ‘political garbage’ – even if it didnt fit in
2) Panic at the Disco are apparently what happens when hobbits form a hair metal band and cant pull it off.
3) speaking of hobbits, the lead singer of Fall Out Boy IS Sam Gamgee, and his buddy was wearing an Elf Cloak.
4) so the Killers are U2 now?
Fuck me, the only thing more boring than that show were these inane fcking comments.
“Fuck me, the only thing more boring than that show were these inane fcking comments.
Posted by: gideon sucks at August 31, 2006 11:38 PM”
Gideon Sucks = anonymous troll in Cowardish.
Hey “Mo!”, it was your non-stop banality that single-handedly killed the Comments. Good work. Checked out your live blog tonight: ’0 Comments’. Coincidence?
As long as it’s troll-free, I’m ok.
OK time to go to bed, dad.
Yes, it was too political garbage.
so why couldn’t we get scott a show? this series of tubes is mighty in this day in age, and we know powerful people are reading.
who’s with me?
The VMA’s sucked so hard! Like seriously. Lou Reed was cool. The Raconteurs had more airplay than anyone else.
All the crappy people won and i’m mad.
no shit only crappy people won. only crappy people were nominated.
Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the emo backlash. Concurrently, that MCR song was really cool… And Reed made the whole thing 50% cooler by default.
WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT was the best shit of the whole lame ass show….
and will somebody please explain the difference between HIP HOP & RAP?
lou reed is president!
what a fucking insult making Raconteurs the house band. They should be recieving the awards for being the only band in the room producing quality music
I’d say hip-hop is more sung while rap is almost spoken. It’s kind of hard to appreciate the difference, but it is there. I loved the OK Go performance-thought they did fantastic. I also think Justin Timberlake really did great (you guys are going to murder me with an axe now, right?) and I personally have no idea who Lou Reed is but he isn’t very good. Worst performance – Panic! by far. Don’t get me wrong, I love the band…but they really sucked tonight. Maybe they were nervous. Maybe Brenden was still recovering. Who knows. Oh and The Killers did well, but I think that they should have been a middle act and not the finale. So yeah…that’s my bit, feel free to curse me into indie hell or whatever you crazy kids do.
one question…
why do we need an mtv tres when we already have an mtv en espanol and mun2? mun2 being far superior to anything having to do with mtv.
mtv should just focus on ameliorating the shitty programing they already have.
The Hype Williams thing is one right now, and the clips of his vids just made me hate P Diddy. That guy’s crap compared to all the other artists in the montage. He’s a joke, artistically.
Missy Elliot won for Best Special Effects for the vid of a song that I’ve never heard. It makes me nostalgic for when every new Missy video/song was an event. She just sort of fell off.
Hip-Hop is a culture (clothing, dancing, etc.,) “Rapping” is the act of rhythmically sing-talking over a beat.
I’d really like to see footage of Busta Rhymes writing a song because he packs a movie’s worth of words into a 3-minute song.
“…..and I personally have no idea who Lou Reed is but he isn’t very good.”
Seriously?
I seriously find it hard to believe anyone reading this blog doesn’t know who Lou Reed is, but whatever. Do some research, and you will be a happier (or sadder, more heroin userish) person.
And what is this Pitchfork leak thing?
“Hip-Hop is a culture (clothing, dancing, etc.,) “Rapping” is the act of rhythmically sing-talking over a beat.
Posted by: Happiman at September 1, 2006 1:47 AM”
I second that. Rap is hip-hop. Hip-hop isn’t necessarily rap and can be used to describe the culture. The difference was even more important in the ’80′s when everyone was breakin and tagging. Now, rap is the most popular element of hip-hop, though not necessarily the most important.
this is the worst thing i’ve ever seen…
and i’m drunk
and i work for a record label.
and i’m drink.
Nice to see Lou Reed name check Okkervil River during the aftershow in the midst of all the other garbage I saw tonight. I should have known better but I want that 3+ hours of my life back…
why isnt anybody talking about the black dude who jumped on stage as panic at the disco won ‘video of the year’ (which i can hardly utter without my soul jumping out of my body)
THAT GUY HAD FUCKING BALLS. what do you think happened to him after they dragged him off stage? what do they do with people like that? perhaps they stoned him. or glass bottled him…
Did anyone see Missy get smashed in the head with an unbrella? I recorded the show because the commercials suck (taking only 1.2 hours to watch the whole thing) but saw when missy is riding the power wheels, she gets nailed by one of her dancers. I’ll look for the video… by the way… a lot of people on here watch the show, yet everyone bashes it… hmmmm
Also, is it just me or did Jack White get macho as fuck. At this point I’d take him in a fight over that dude from the von bondies any day.
I like how when Jack Black said “Six is the new soybomb!” no one in the audience laughed as they had no clue who Soy Bomb was. MTV really is geared to and run by a bunch of 13 year olds I think.
The show was bad but compared to earlier ones (remember Puff Daddy hosting?) it was an improvement.
Ugh. The guy from All-American Rejects was trying to act all rockstar like accepting his award, didn’t buy it.
What the fuck is up with Jared Leto? He looks like he went to Hot Topic and asked what all the young kids were wearing.