MTV VMAs 2010

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2010/

who is preforming

yr man Drake is one of the performers, apparently

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2010/about.jhtml

under "Guest List," click "Performers"

train
beiber
icp
flo rida
derulo

no idea

Derulo & Bieber are on the list

holy shit bruno mars looks terrifying

what's mary j blige doing on this list

thought derulo was trey songz, got mildly excited

Trey Songz is listed as a presenter

exciting

so there's gonna be what... 50 different liveblogs of this thing?

People still watch this?

so there's gonna be what... 50 different liveblogs of this thing?

― J0rdan S., Sunday, September 12, 2010 5:14 PM (46 seconds ago)

"50"

Vinny Guadagnino

im unreasonably anticipating this

http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/m/mccoy_travis/billionare/140x105.jpg

so when kanye & taylor swift collab are we gonna pretend 2 be shocked

idk im not actually watching this

I'm anticipating Chelsea Handler hosting

thats abt it but I will watch and complain as usual

so the song w/ pharell is dope

SAD VINNY meme begins now

so the song w/ pharell is dope

― *sets trend* (deej), Sunday, September 12, 2010 10:07 PM (Yesterday)

the gucci song?

yah u werent feelin it?

the one w/ nicki? did they perform it?

is this the one with nicki minaj too? there's a song on the The Appeal tracklisting with all three of them and I was pretty surprised they hand't put it out yet

xp woops

oh nev mind i havent heard the new one
i was thinking of soldier

lol

"we want to show this incredible new technolgoy that racks all the tweets having to do with the VMAs"

it's called www.Twitter.com

racks = tracks but katy perry is on the screen so who knows BOOM

lol minaj is doing the song with william

bieber is swagged out tonight

swagswag -- gonna go grab snacks @ the store now brb

yeah dude wtf

i never really knew it was like that. damn

i thought his personality would be way more in line with his music and that one youtube where he walks into the door.

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

will they have subtitles?

beib's swag coach is earning his pay

will i am dude. what the fuck

uh is will in blackface??

god that song licks the biggest nuts

the saltiest

Minaj looks like a Jetson and Will I Am looks like he is in blackface or his hair is photoshopped in.

he looked like a gay judge dred

what the fuck do the cowboys start 9 linebackers?

lol that's gonna happen a few more times

I'm not even sure what channel MTV is

there we go

thank god

lol

that's an amazing pic

the gaga acceptance speech for video of the year was pretty hilarious

The lyrics to that Taylor song:

I guess you really did it this time
Left yourself in your war path
Lost your balance on a tightrope
Lost your mind trying to get it back

Wasn’t it easier in your lunchbox days?
Always a bigger bed to crawl into
Wasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everything
And everybody believed in you?

CHORUS
It’s alright, just wait and see
Your string of lights are still bright to me, oh
Who you are is not what you’ve been
You’re still an innocent
You’re still an innocent

There’s some things you can’t speak of
But tonight you’ll live it all again
You wouldn’t be shattered on the floor now
If only you were seeing what you know now, then

Wasn’t it easier in your firefly catching days?
And everything out of reach someone picked up and brought down to you
Wasn’t it beautiful running wild ‘til you fell asleep
Before the monsters caught up to you?

CHORUS
It’s alright, just wait and see
Your string of lights are still bright to me, oh
Who you are is not what you’ve been
You’re still an innocent

It’s okay, life is a tightrope
32 and still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You’re still an innocent
Time turns flames to embers
You’ll have new Septembers
Every one of us has messed up too
Lines change like the weather
I hope you remember
Today is never too late to be brave

CHORUS
It’s alright, just wait and see
Your string of lights are still bright to me, oh
Who you are is not what you’ve been
You’re still an innocent
It’s okay, life is a tight rope
32 and still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You’re still an innocent
You’re still an innocent
Lost your balance on a tightrope
It’s never too late to get it back

So I guess it is about Kanye. It's well written, but sounds quite patronising.

holy shit those lyrics are terrible

it is pretty patronizing

then again, kanye often acts like a 12 year old

Wasn’t it easier in your firefly catching days?

answer: yes

It’s okay/life is a tightrope/love is a battlefield

Liked the lyrics during the live performance (before I checked the VMA thread on ILX and found out they were about Kanye, wtf).

It’s alright, just wait and see
Your string of lights are still bright to me

shoulda been FLASHING LIGHTS obv

haaaaaa

probably was flashing lights in an earlier draft

guys I watched about half of this on a 6 hour tape delay:

bieber's drum solo was the shit

who was playing in front of the Griffith observatory? it made me feel gross about LA for a minute cause I know ppl who would be like hey cool a free party at Griffith observatory sweet

Rick Ross on the scooter was dope

Lay off eminem dipping out- he's in rehab y'all

pusha t was on point

bummed I missed lilo

I fully endorse every jersey shore joke

I didn't see a thread for VH1's hip-hop honors Def Jam edition but I just gotta say: Trey Songs trying to do Nate Dogg bummed me out more than anything on this awards show u_u

show was pretty decent this year, really nice visuals for a lot of the performances

anyone see a complete list of performances anywhere? wanna do a poll

Increasingly I'm thinking the 15 seconds of Lady Gaga's new song was the night's best performance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDFHKRFMd4k

Also, this is A+:

"I... I never thought I'd be asking Cher to hold my meat purse."

censors didn't even know what to do with that

i really loved that taylor's song was all

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/2000074618272338887_rs.jpg

and then Kanye's was all

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/052/812/original/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif?1275684729

haha yeah taylor swift got murked, peace out

Gaga beats swift/kanye for me for realizing there are more people on the planet than Kanye West

her "we were born that way!" entertaining jane lynch made up for her "THANK U GAYS FOR IMITATING ME" annoying Ellen

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8ofsyoTKP1qzclrjo1_500.jpg

deal with it

how many times can you apply that meme to this thread, let's make it a contest

anyway Taylor's song was more "you eated my cookie but it's OK because you're still kind of a kitten yourself, bless your heart you crazy diamond"

how many times can you apply that meme to this thread, let's make it a contest

― some dude, Monday, September 13, 2010 10:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey shiply guess what

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/052/812/original/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif?1275684729

the opening video was a really unnecessary limitation of context, but I'm all for Taylor showing sympathy for older kids as well as younger kids

Kanye talking into a vacuum cleaner about how its his privilege to be an asshole was more engaging though

thought it was overkill for them to BOTH play new songs about it, would've been okay if it was just one. i wonder if they heard each other's songs at all in advance.

i don't know if Kanye's was ABOUT IT, but certainly OF it

can you even be "you eated my cookie" while being that patronising? i haven't seen the kanye song but that's not the vibe i'm getting at all

I want Taylor to write a song about how a high school principal has feelings too

I know you think he's after you
But do you really believe he wants to be here toooooo

there was not enough katy perry.

yeah i think since she was one of the big performers at the movie awards in June they didn't want to have her perform on this one, but a "Teenage Dream" perf woulda been good

it was so weird having basically the biggest pop star of the moment relegated to presenting an award for 30 seconds. i don't even remember what nicki minaj said at all, which says A LOT about katy

Earlier in the night, the Best Rock Video award went to the diffuse, dull “Kings and Queens,” by 30 Seconds to Mars. If Mr. West had been planning to jump out of his seat at the announcement of one of this night’s winners, that would have been the one, and yet not a peep was heard from him from Caramanica's NY Times piece

Yes

But maybe picking on dull rock at the VMAs is too easy

"Kings And Queens" is a beautiful video, tbh. Its Donnie Darko/Warriors/BatForLashed concept is def hella played out, but the art direction and cinematography are gorgeous.

i don't know what the video has to do w/ any of those things except i guess Warriors, but yeah, it is a good video (and a good song imo). is Caramanica a butthurt Muse fan?

I was surprised how humble and polite Jared Leto was after seeing his on-stage shtick in their Closer To Edge video

Closer To The Edge, I mean.

It's the poll that had to be made:

Best/Favorite Performance on the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards POLL

http://i53.tinypic.com/6ehsfa.jpg

Earlier in the night, the Best Rock Video award went to the diffuse, dull “Kings and Queens,” by 30 Seconds to Mars. If Mr. West had been planning to jump out of his seat at the announcement of one of this night’s winners, that would have been the one, and yet not a peep was heard from him from Caramanica's NY Times piece

Yes

oh god, NO, if that would mean we'd have to hear jared leto sing a touching song about it next year.

i wasn't gonna be all pedantic about that line because it's just a lame & obvious joke at the end of the article, but since it's been re-posted & otm'd twice now i'll just point out that a. kanye & jared leto are bros and b. if you think that kanye would ever strike down a self-involved super-pretentious musician who made a hilariously overwrought and pretentious music video, then i'm not sure you really know who kanye west is

I'm not sure any of us know who Kanye West really is

he's a misogynist riddle tweeted by a megalomaniac enigma and smothered in charming autotune

It’s okay, life is a tightrope
32 and still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You’re still an innocent
Time turns flames to embers
You’ll have new Septembers
Every one of us has messed up too...

funny, i heard that as "ambers," not embers, and assumed she was dropping in one more kanye reference just to be cute and clever.

on paper, that song reads awful, like some bad collegiate singer-songwriter crap, but i thought the actual performance was moving.

i also liked how kanye's response, in addition to being, "you think i'm a douchebag? well, yeah, i AM a douchebag, so what?," was also, "you think you know how to sing off-key? well, get a load of this."

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8rrooj2K91qzvg5vo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1284608905&Signature=7VBRBgmS4hcqwqB9rnNWdBWXSkg%3D