The performances at last night's VMAs were certainly inconsistent. The show kicked off with Britney's lackluster (Scared? Self-conscious? Nonchalant? I can't decide - check it out here) performance and then seemed like it wasn't going to pick up. While I appreciate the nonstop party idea they were going for with all the party suites, I missed all the big performances. That being said Rihanna/Chris Brown, Alicia Keys and Justin/Nelly Furtado/Timbaland were pretty awesome. Seriously, little Mr. Brown has some MOVES! Dayum. The rest of the performances seemed odd, being in hotel rooms and all. Or maybe I was just jealous I wasn't right there as Kanye sang Stronger. What did you think? Highlights? Lowlights?
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Damn some1 add the video of Chris brown and rihanna's performance already! Just jared only has chris browns part!
oh..um Pleasee
1woot, 1st comment!
britney's performance was soooooooo disappointing. SADDENING.
2I didn't like the hotel performances ... it was odd and distracting. However, I'm obviously jealous I wasn't there!
3sh*tney lookes like a crack head and lip synched through the whole performance, she was highly druged on something
4Briteney looked way off.
5Rihanna looked hot! I was so happy for her. She was a shoe in because "Umbrella" was everywhere this Summer.
She was def the high point in the show for me.
I have to say though, the best part about "VMA Weekend" was not the actual show, but Paris outing X-Tina's pregnancy. I literally laughed aloud when I heard that. It's so like her.
6Eh, I didn't like the hotel performances either.
7Chris Brown was AMAZING!
8Justin was good as usual
Britney was a mess. No interest, lip synching sucked, outfit was gross, and her extensions where not the same color as her real hair. she can do WAY better...she jus dont care
The hotel thing was annoying too distracting got confused at times. They should have only shown 3 hotel parties not keep going back.
9Anywho, I'm sick is Justin and his attitude and his suits and his PALE FACE
Brit was awful but Chris Brown's performance was awesomes, he's adorable!
10Britney was so off, I almost couldn't watch (but of course, I did! haha). I was hoping it would be a great way to come back, but uh.. she didn't pull it off. As for the hotel parties, I actually really liked it. There was tons of people performing & it was like a big ol' party, which I thought was cool. I loved how JT kept floating around. Maybe I'm biased.
11The roster is soo lame. I mean Melissa Joan Heart. Love her, but didnt she just have a baby. They couldnt even get fergi there and she won an award. The best part of the night was Chris Brown! He was really great! And the hotel room parties were cool, but with all the fans in there, there was no one in the auditorium to cheer.
12I've heard the Rihanna/Chris Brown "Umbrella-Remix" (you know the duet) so often. Why didn't they perform it then when they were already together on stage?
No complains about that performance though.
Britney's hair gives me the creeps. I can get better extensions in my tiny hometown. Yuck!!!!
13Brittney didn’t disappoint me, I was HOPING she would bomb, and boy did she ever! I loved Sarah Silverman’s jokes, although biting, were so freaking funny. Hopefully this will kill big old brit-brits comeback.
14As for the other performances, I thought the “party rooms” were fun, different, although repetitive and quickly old. Most of the people standing around were shoving for the spotlight or just looked confused. I wanted someone to reach over to Kanye and RIP those ridiculous sunglasses off.
i am like justin timberlake, when i saw chris brown's performance i said, "daaammmnnn"
i enjoyed seeing justin as well. i am wishin i coulda been at justin's or kayne's party, but i cant decide if i like the suite party idea or not, i mean it's like they weren't
really at the awards.
15Why won't the pictures enlarge today? All I get is the thumbnails- WTF?
16i am personally offended that Kanye West can say "blonde dyke" in his songs and no one cares. he is as bad as isaiah washington.
17The format was just yucky. I wish they had all the performances on the stage.
18ok is it just me or was everybody on steroids that night lmfao how did timbaland all of a sudden get those hulk arms? and when he performed with his BFFS FOREVER nelly and Timberlake hahahhaha it was amazing
19and jamie foxx was really arrogant "THE KINGDOM SEPT28 THE KINGDOM SEPT 28" god STFU!! and poor jennifer garner was like trying to play it off "LIKE WE GET IT JAMIE UR MOVIE STARRING U SEPT 28" LOL it was hilarious too
20I knew Britney was going to be bad, but I didn't think she was going to be that bad. Why did they start with focusing on her nappy hair, and why did she wear that outfit???
21I thought that Linkin Park did a great job (dispite the singer having a blown out voice), I thought that Justin and Alicia Keys did great jobs as well. I really liked Rhianna's performances, and I love the fact that she sings live.
Brit was terrible, and it was all because she didn't practice enough. The reason Chris Brown looked so awesome is because he worked his tooshie off on that dance for hours. I think it is completely amature and arrogant the way Brit slacked off in her preparation. Did she think brilliance was just going to fly out of her hung over butt?
I think she needs to remember that she is not supernatural, that yes, even "Britney Spears" needs to work at it.
22The VMA's have been sucking for a while now, they have not been good since Diddy hosted in Miami. I dont even want to waste my words on that mess of Britney Spears, im so over her. The best was def. Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake.
23Seriously, I haven't watched MTV for so long because all it basically shows are reality shows where people are vacant jerks who treat each other like crap and spend their parents' money on birthday parties! Call me "old-fashioned," but I loved when MTV showed videos, its only reality show was Real World /Road Rules, and the awards shows were fun and laid back. This year's show was manic, dark, confusing, and just blah.....Starting from the closeup of Britney's bad weave (was that necessary??) to random oddly-shot scenes of the suits, I just felt annoyed/bored the whole time....yuck! I feel old, in the words of Justin Timberlake
24The top 3 performances were Chris Brown,Alicia Keys and Nicole Scherzinger. I'm sorry , but Rihanna didn't deliver to match up to Cris's performance.You can't get too comfty in this industry.. she was off key like at a karaoke bar,singing live and she just walked on stage..
25I agree it seems that evryone was drugged up or something with those wild crowd parties..it's not only Timbaland, but Dr Dre came looking like Hulk with muscles bulging off his shoulders too!
highlights for me:
Chris Brown - now that's a performer
26JT - anything - hello Southern Hospitality Party
Dr. Dre!!! - where has he been?
Linkin Park - although I didn't like the song they performed
i still think the best was Alicia Keys' now she's CLASSY and talented. and respectable.
the vmas were all timberlake thats why i hated it i mean why the f*ck did kanye not win anything?!?!?! and why did timberlake win quardurpale of the year award or whatever for being a "fashion designer" :oy" when BONO should've won! he actually does stuff for other people, oddly enough they give it to the self proclaimed sexy-back-bringer lmfao that maade no sense
27i meant to say
***
28i cannot stand justin
29bono was robbed, robin thicke was robbed, everybody was robbed. because 'oooh leets give it to the former musketeeer, hes so awesome he brought SEXY BACk, and he's more awesome-r than prince'
f*ck I HATE JUSTIN lol sorry tatti but i really cannot stand his arrogant bald head!
30Brit wasn't the only one lip synching nor was she the worst in my opinion.... this show has gone waaaaaaaaay down hill
31JT looked good Alicia Keys's performance was hot. Britney should've stayed home.
32I found the hotel room performances cheesy and distracting! I like to see the performers on an actual stage, not going up and down stairs/hallways, in the dark, with all the blacklights and drunk women hanging all over them so you can't even see the performers!!!!
I was so bummed about the VMA's overall....I feel like they did maybe 6 awards the whole night and barely any celebrities were even there!
And Maroon 5 performs.....to take the show to a commercial break?!?!?!
Chris Brown was my favorite!
33I found the hotel room performances cheesy and distracting! I like to see the performers on an actual stage, not going up and down stairs/hallways, in the dark, with all the blacklights and drunk women hanging all over them so you can't even see the performers!!!!
I was so bummed about the VMA's overall....I feel like they did maybe 6 awards the whole night and barely any celebrities were even there!
And Maroon 5 performs.....to take the show to a commercial break?!?!?!
Chris Brown was my favorite!
34I agree, JT is acting like a jerk as if he owns the world in the palm of his hands. He jabbed at Mtv for forgetting their purpose of showing Music videos, but the Quadruple award he won is also ridiculous. Bcoz Mtv is mixing music with business ventures and other sh*t not music related..Then Mr Timberlake, if MTV should focus on more music, then u don't deserve to won that Quadruples that inflated your ego more than is already is.I''m sick of JT's conceitedness...He should be grateful for where he is today.
35bono is a social activist and he actually does stuff for the world and probably is more humble BBperfume, meawhile they give it to timberlake because he's "SO AWESOME" and he's "SO HOT"
god overrated disney b*tch lol i was seriously like
when he won? so lame!
36"And Maroon 5 performs.....to take the show to a commercial break?!?!?!"
LOL THAT WAS HILARIOUS
37I don't think Britney looked bad- if anything, she looked better than she usually does! Obviously she's not going to be the svelte, slinky teen of her past after having two babies. Even her face looked nicer than it usually does- it looked more like the old Britney to me. So good job, whoever did her makeup. I agree she didn't need to go as bare as she did with her body. She is definitely not "fat" as people are implying, but she isn't in the perfect shape that she once was.
I'm not even a Britney fan so all this positive has drained me for at least another year.
The performance, on the other hand, was terrible. I detest the new song, and the fact that she couldn't even perform it made it worse.
38I felt really bad for brit. she should have just had a really cute pixie cut, bleached it blond and covered up some. : (
39On another note Alicia Keys RULED! I liked the performances, but they just felt like little snipets.
Why not post those Chris Brown and Alicia Keys performances!!! Seriously...Talentastic over Trashtastic ANY DAY!!!
PS: This site definitely needs a dose of true vocal talent to balance the Britney Spears crap...just to show that she's unfairly placed on a pedestal!!! SHE BLOWS!!!
40"Why not post those Chris Brown and Alicia Keys performances!!! Seriously...Talentastic over Trashtastic ANY DAY!!!"
AGREE Tiabia!!! I dont even see one pic of Robin Thicke, or a vid of alicia keys' performance...its always those Other people..
41Tia - it's because they want us to post for more points..more trash more trash talking otherwise, we'd just be one big happy family
42The only parts I saw were the closing with Justin (who was amazing!!) amd the opening. Britney was disappointing, I was really hoping she'd blow everyone away.
43Jessamae22..I totally agree with your post. I miss the old MTV..when all they played was videos...am I dating myself now
Anyway...I don't watch MTV..ever...I have no interest in them or their reality shows.
44Someone is going to have to burn that hotel down to get rid of the stench in that place because ... Damn, it stank in there.
45It's like somebody slaughtered thousands of chicken and let the guts rot for weeks and filmed it for an MTV broadcast. Brit go home and hang yourself.
After watching Britney and then the first few minutes of Sarah Silverman, I was spent. I was not going to waste two hours of my precious time on crap.
46Yeah, like I wrote, I feel OLD! I'm 25 and I remember MTV being fun and laid back and not as snarky or music-less. Hell, the last time I watched TRL they only showed like, 5 seconds of the video. My girlfriends and I used to love watching the awards shows for the fun performances and celeb watching....This year had fights, egos, self-promotion, and lame performances. The only ones I really enjoyed (or even remember) were Chris Brown and Alicia Keyes!
47alexlove - Britney blew everyone away - but from tuning into MTV...
48TRL isnt even live anymore they pre-record it
49I would best describe MTV as the friend you grew up with, and then as you mature...they just don't. MTV grew up with the 24-30 set. MTV had the college shows when I was in college...and then it just went backwards. Now with the latest trashy show: Tila Tequila...MTV has hit an all new low. It's going to be a prime orgyfest...and BOOO to MTV for giving SHAT like that a fighting chance!!!
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