In a VMA preview piece the other day, the New York Times put MTV and VMA-opening pop tart Britney Spears in the same (sinking) boat: “Both will be trying to recapture better days on Sunday as the music network shows its annual presentation of the Video Music Awards.” What better excuse could there be for a Stereogum liveblog?
Yep it’s going down. Like the show’s ratings. (zing) But along with MTV’s identity crisis and the VMA’s $10K gift bags, we’re curious about some stuff that hits a little closer to home. J.U.S.T.I.C.E. up against Beyonce, Amy, Justin, and Rihanna? Foo Fighters performance (from the suite!) featuring Josh Homme and Mastodon? Peter Bjorn & John and Kanye under the same roof? OK bad example, there. But you get it. Remember, MTV’s not repeating the broadcast (not this version, anyway). So in honor of this “one-time telecast!” we’ll bring you our “one-time-liveblog!” See ya at 9 PM EST. Unless Vanessa Hudgens shows up naked at the Pre-Show.
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It’s a “one-time telecast!” so unless ya got a DVR, you have one chance… to be bored to tears.
PS. Hudgens admitting that’s really her? That’s either really brave or really dumb.
The only reason I even care about the VMA’s, is cause I work right by the Palms, and I know on Sunday night it’s going to take me 2 fucking hours to get home from all the traffic. Ugh. Couldn’t they do it on the strip where locals don’t go??
Hudgens’ move is both smart and stupid at the same time: smart because, unlike Antonella Barba and hundreds of disgraced beauty queens and America Idols before her, she fessed up first. Denying it only causes the gossip tabs and paparazzi to dig in harder until she admits anyhow. Points for cutting to the chase.
It’s stupid though because it doesn’t matter what she does. She has allowed herself to be lumped into that same category of ‘young star deemed slut’. It’s easy to guess that the photo was taken and given to a boyfriend of some sort. Somehow it escaped his possession, either by chance or by choice, and all hell’s breaking loose.
If she wasn’t a part of two of Disney’s most lucrative properties in the last ten years, she might have been able to spin it. As it stands now, I can imagine Disney brass trying to figure out how to gracefully write her character out of the frighteningly inevitable “HSM3 – Graduation, Yeah!”
DwD
Disney Backs ‘High School’ Star
http://tinyurl.com/2rpbhs
or, for the paranoid,
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2rpbhs
In your face, Dw Dunphy!
To Vanessa or whomever:
What else would they have said? She embarrassed us so we’re dropping her? I’m not concerned with what gets said, but what gets done – that’s damage control.
DwD
who’s the hottie in the photo there?
Martha Quinn
Looks a little like Neve Campbell, not sure though.
EDIT: or Selma Blair actually.
“What else would they have said? She embarrassed us so we’re dropping her?”
Conceivably, they could have dropped her… er, I mean, me right away to appease the Christian right.
Dw Dunphy – you are consistently the most idiotic poster on Stereogum. It’s not even close. Who the fuck else would write a three paragraph analysis of Vanessa Hudgens’ nude pics? Also, why the fuck do you have to end every post with DwD? You do realize it says “Posted by: X at Month Day, Year Time”? Right? Right?
Still gay.
Corey,
Clearly I am not the most idiotic poster on Stereogum since you needed so desperately to scold me for my analysis. So I wasted your time on analyzing a thread of pop culture that has become commonplace in this decade. Sorry ’bout that. Whatever can I do to get those lost seven seconds back to you, laddie?
See, I assumed we were taking things seriously every once in a while. Didn’t get the memo that it had to be Snarkfest 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This, by the way, is paragraph two. I have one more to go, since you’re so keen on counting. Two! Two Transylvanian paragraphs! Ah ha ha ha ha!
And finally, why do I put DwD at the end of my posts? Well, Corey, if that’s your real name though I doubt it, this is my real name. These are my real sentiments. I have no desire to crack wise under pseudonyms and nom de plume, even if my statements are, as you say, idiotic. We live in a big idiotic world Mr. Corey / Vanessa / Steve Gutenberg (I knew it was YOU!). You can stifle my initials, but my message will live on.
DwD
(see below for pertinent details!)
shut the fuck up DwD. you seem to have something to say about everything stereogum posts, so here’s an idea: go make a blog and post some shit on it instead of here. no one gives a fuck about your long-winded “opinions”.
i would martha her quinn so hard
wow the guys who comment on this blog are sad.
some of us like reading what d dubs has to say! forget the haters, they come always. also, that’s totally martha quinn. back from when MTV mattered.
DwD is one of the coolest guys on this blog, and I always love reading his comments. And his music’s not bad, either. (Yeah, I checked your CDBaby page one time – cool.)
I’ll rather read long-winded insights from armchair A&Rs than see predictable posts from meatheaded cretins like “omgc”.
Word.
lol… DwD isn’t that bad. long-winded to be sure, but somewhat entertaining.
the most idiotic poster ever on stereogum as to go to ‘patrick gorse’ or something like that. holy shit that guy was a moron.
the vmas are looking to be lame as usual. i usually check it out for the performances though… thank goodness for youtube.
“DwD is one of the coolest guys on this blog.”
Is that even possible? To be considered “on a blog” (i.e. not a contributor, but such a ceaseless presence that someone would deem you “on” it) and be even remotely “cool” at the same time?
Say, does the “Dw” stand for “Dweezil”?
ahem, i believe i am the coolest poster here….
I agree with Adrienne. She is the coolest.
And to anyone who says I’m rambling, guilty as charged. Brevity is the better part of wit and I’m often witless. However, I post these things because it’s a chance to actually dialogue on the subject, to have a conversation about what’s going on in pop culture, not just to flag it with “that rocks!” or “fuckin’ sucks”.
If this situation has bothered me at all, it has been because instead of really getting into a topic, folks would rather shoot me down. And that’s fine. Free speech and such is good. If I complain about your complaints, I shouldn’t be allowed to make my own (and I’m going to leave it there).
Danke schoen,
DwD
Anyone else think the MTV logo is ripping off the Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible artwork?
“Anyone else think the MTV logo is ripping off the Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible artwork?”
thank you for making my day
Uhh, it’s 8:15pm EST….so where is said Stereogum LIVEBLOG located?
Quick observation thus far:
“Black People” don’t care about MTV.
sebastian, the show starts at 9. read.
Ok watching the Pre-show and I am going to have nightmares about John Norris…he has gotten so scary looking over the years!!! What happened to him!?
But 9:00 PM EST = 10:00 PM EDT
i’m pro-dunphy. don’t go away.
I met John Norris and his boyfriend at an UNO’s around NYU last week.
Didn’t know he was a homo.
Shoulda saw his emo-gone-gay look tonight coming…
SUX SUX SUX!!! Worsted MTV VMA”S ever MTV what happen U just keep getting worse, and was Brit stoned, or what!! Lucky she had all the dancers to take the focus off of her. The best part was the fight.
^^^^
Note to self:
Please sign up “Jack” to be in the audience for the 2008 VMAs.