Blogging The 2005 VMAs Until I Get Bored
In today's NY Times, MySpace co-creator Tom Anderson discusses the prospects for his company's new record label: "It's kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?" Who cares about MTV anymore? Stereogum readers do! Right? I'm gonna liveblog this shit until I get bored...
7:55: Pre-show action! Fall Out Boy perform. Sway likes their "energy." Suchin looks hot interviewing Fiddy. Gideon Yago isn't emo anymore? Loder looks sweaty.
8:00: Green Day open the show with "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams." Big surprise: they're wearing all black. Wonder if Diddy will wear all white?
8:02: I walk alone ... I walk alone .... Green Day are up for a ton of awards tonight including Best Punk Opera Act and Best Use Of Eyeliner In A Music Video. Oooh -- check out the anti-war pyrotechnic display.
8:05: It's our host, P. Diddy! He's jumped into a digital pool. Waterfall effects. Looks like it's raining on the audience. Pouring one out for my homies in the French Quarter...
8:07: Diddy strokes his ego to what sounds like Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
8:09: Now a bunch of Diddies dance (or are they krumping?) to "Hollaback Girl." Gwen's in the audience; she looks pissed.
8:10: L. Lo and Nelly (one of them is wearing a Batman tanktop -- I'll let you guess which one) give out the first awards. Wait, no monologue at all? We want Suge Knight jokes! Couldn't they have gotten Steve Carell?
8:12: Kanye and Kelly Clarkson win something... Hmmm ... I'm sorta bored ... Gonna see if Law & Order: Criminal Intent is on. I'll be back, promise.
Let's hear what you guys have to say.
UPDATE: Photo fun after the jump...
One of these men goes by the name Tré Cool.
Hurricane Katrina forced Hilary Duff's Teeth to cancel their pre-party.
Quincy Jones remembers when VMAs were hosted by Dan Akroyd and Bette Midler. "And they were bananas!"
Fergie promises not to piss her pants if she meets MC Hammer.
It's not a party without Lindsay Lohan, on a mission to reunite with her cleavage.
Eric Roberts just handed Gwen twenty Keaton Simons CDs. "Money back guarantee!"
Killers fail to thank Ultragrrrl, but Mark gets points for the 'young-James Taylor' facial hair.
Kanye wins over My Chemical Romance fans.
Original!
Ashlee hopes R. Kelly will lipsync his hip-hopera.
The = represents Make Trade Fair. The red band stands for Save CBGBs. The yellow band means John O'Hurley Was Robbed.
Your humble host ... what's his name ... the dude from Making The Band 3: Season 2...
Posted at 8:17 PM
Tags: Fall Out Boy | Gwen Stefani | Kelly Clarkson | MTV Video Music Awards | My Chemical Romance
Damn East Coast Feed. Us in da 310 have another 2 hrs to go. Pretty Ricky isn't up for no awards, dman the VMAs!!!
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Ricky in da hizzy. It's a damn shame I can't get recognized. Who is Mike Jones? I still want to know. Someone drop some knowledge on me
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r kelly is out of his mind
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doubleyoo tee eff, r kelly is doing a "live" (ashlee) performance of his operetta. and i am purging my dinner.
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wtf? mc hammer?
and r. kelly...right. "and chuck said, then kathy said, and rufas said NO!"...yeah that was basically the whole thing for ya there...
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I gave up and started watching "Grey Gardens"
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VMAs bored me after 20 mins, switched to fox for cartoons, yay!
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i'm actually embarrassed for r. kelly. you know jay-z is smiling inside.
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LIVEBLOG CRIMINAL INTENT!
But only if it's D'Onofrio, I don't care for this Noth revival.
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does anybody else think that such a mega-funded event could have more than just 8 cameras on the same 8 people (destiny's child, jay-z, usher, etc.) in the audience?
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i've been doing this shit all night. though it's not as entertaining as scott's observations.
the link is under my name here. i suggest never doing liveblogging for a boring show like this one. such a letdown.
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Just turned to the porn channel and lit a fat one one....MT who?
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The VMAs peaked in 1992 and have gotten gradually worse every year since. Thirteen years of gradual makes for a whole lotta suck.
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this is like showtime at the apollo.
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What just happened? What was all the "fuck" and "pussy boy" about? That directed towards Suge? Did something actually exciting happen or am I imagining things?
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fat joe vs. 50 cent
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Man, I'm behind on the times. I need to do my beef research.
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Can i be the first to say that this show tonight was a display of what is wrong with society today. Now hear me out on this one. MTV has the power to influence A LOT of kids and by promoting all of this 50 cent, R Kelly, Diddy (and what has he really done in 10yrs??)and Ludcrap they are basically promoting music THAT MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Even Kanye is full of shit. He raps about blood diamonds and God but he is just as materialistic as the rest of them. And the grand finale was Kelly Clarkson!!!!!! What happened to real music in a music award show??? In closing...put an end to Bling Monkey Show!!!
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I was with you until the Kelly part. Kelly didn't sing her best, but she put on a show, more so than anybody else did.
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kelly clarkson was awesome, too bad about the sound problems, but i love that girl. the rest of the show=weak. r. kelly is a f*cking lunatic.
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It was a bit hard to get into the fun of my annual trashing on the VMAs, being that we have a huge hurricane coming to get us in Louisiana and I couldn't evacuate. That said, they sucked as always.
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CHUCK WENT BACK TO HIS WIFE!
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But what about Rufus?
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when hillary duff name dropped morrissey I actually vomited in my mouth a little bit.
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Someone please get me a tissue - the baby Jesus is crying.
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For a minute there I was asking myself, "why, exactly is p. diddy famous?" Then they showed the Notorious B.I.G. thing and I remembered: he had a friend once who like, died. We should give the guy a fucking medal.
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All Hail the Jay-z and Beyonce of Rock!!!!!!
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Was I imagining things or did Chris Martin have a big hole on his shirt?
And why is Mariah so stiff and concentrating on her posing rather than her singing?
And why is everyone trying to be blonde?
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What was Eva Langoria thinking? They should've soaked her in water or made her swim or something. At least the guys wouldn't get too bored.
For a while, I thought Diddy was gonna sing Relax...I would've watched some more and not switched the channel to reruns of Celebrity Fit Club which I thought was more entertaining.
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Well, this show has managed to suck that much more with each passing year. On another topic, was it just me or did Jessica Simpson seem as lucid as Courtney Love after a few "diet cokes".
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Your caption for the Colplay is the funniest thing I've read all week. Awesome.
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No more writing comments late at night. Let me try again.
"Your caption for the Coldplay picture is the funniest thing I've read all week. AWESOME"
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i was wishing "Hate It or Love It" would win for best hiphop video just to see 50 and Game pick up an award together. It would of been brilliant if Fat Joe had to give it to them.
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What Eva wore on stage:
http://popredux.com/2005/08/29/eva-longoria-at-mtv-vmas/
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i hope that a lot of diddy's 'surprises' were in fact surprises. i'd be stunned if mtv producers actually signed off on his antics.
what the hell was with all the biggie stuff? damn... enough already. i thought he stopped exploiting his 'friend' in, like, 1998 (or something like that). and all that stuff with don magic juan? geez... i mean, the guy is a pimp... like, for real, no? do we really need to be cheering his pimp fashion makeover? how about we let him keep the clothes, and he just stops exploiting women? how's that for a trade-off mr. juan? the crowd seemed confused for a lot of the night as diddy repeatedly gave props to people only hip-hop fans or music geeks would know. kind of like a 3.5 hour, self-congratulatory, inside joke. congrats diddy. even without the 'p' you're still an absurd egomaniac.
other low-lights: diddy throwing his watch into the crowd. the paris hilton/bow-wow "bling-off" (has to be the most disgustingly shallow thing i've ever seen): they can barely articulate their 'thoughts' but they have a minimum of 200 carats of diamonds around their neck.
and yes, i'm jealous that they are ridiculously wealthy, whilst i am poor. rant over.
i thought kelly clarkson was good, even if she is, you know, kelly clarkson. coldplay and the killers weren't bad. and kanye wasn't too bad either.
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i hope that a lot of diddy's 'surprises' were in fact surprises. i'd be stunned if mtv producers actually signed off on his antics.
what the hell was with all the biggie stuff? damn... enough already. i thought he stopped exploiting his 'friend' in, like, 1998 (or something like that). and all that stuff with don magic juan? geez... i mean, the guy is a pimp... like, for real, no? do we really need to be cheering his pimp fashion makeover? how about we let him keep the clothes, and he just stops exploiting women? how's that for a trade-off mr. juan? the crowd seemed confused for a lot of the night as diddy repeatedly gave props to people only hip-hop fans or music geeks would know. kind of like a 3.5 hour, self-congratulatory, inside joke. congrats diddy. even without the 'p' you're still an absurd egomaniac.
other low-lights: diddy throwing his watch into the crowd. the paris hilton/bow-wow "bling-off" (has to be the most disgustingly shallow thing i've ever seen): they can barely articulate their 'thoughts' but they have a minimum of 200 carats of diamonds around their neck.
and yes, i'm jealous that they are ridiculously wealthy, whilst i am poor. rant over.
i thought kelly clarkson was good, even if she is, you know, kelly clarkson. coldplay and the killers weren't bad. and kanye's performance wasn't bad either, if a little overdone.
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whoops... sorry, for the double post.
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People still watch MTV award shows? I am shocked.. shocked i tell you. Because even the 'drama' has gotten lame.
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You know the VMA suck when the highlight of the show was Kelly Clarkson.
But we have to admit, Eva look awsome in that outfit, she might be short but the girl got good legs!
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beavis and butthead were the best part of last night's show.
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Gwen looks pissed. She didn't want be there right? I remember reading that she was not going to go.
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No comment... I was am and will always be distracted by Eva Longoria's Camel Toe.
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Ok - you are a music fan like myself and I'm asking you this; did you hear what 50 said after his performance to Phat Joe? It was unedited (whoever was doing the censoring was way off) and he said, "Fuck You Phat Joe" then called him a pussy before the camera shot to Kanye West.
My friends and others saw it but the media hasn't written about it at all. Not one mention. I wrote about it and got hits from people searching for the video of it - so it obviously happened.
Any word as to why it's being downplayed?
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Okay, when is someone going to make an effing KAtrina and the Waves reference??? Please? Someone? I be jonesin for obscure references in times of national disaster of biblico proportions.
First post BITCHES, oh wait.
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Oh yeah, Beavis and Butthead were definitely the best part of the show. I laughed as hard as I did the first time I watched them.
So wtf is up with that GAP commercial with the favorite song/favorite jeans theme? That damn stroke-off seemed like it went on for 10 minutes. Did anyone else want to vomit when they saw that commercial? Those commercials are like mind control. Everybody in khakis. OK, now everybody in really long striped scarves. Now you will all wear jeans. mmm I am the GAP robot, you will wear what I say. (That last part sounds best if you do a cool vocoder robot-like voice)
And what about R Kelly horribly lip syncing that damn soap opera? Could you hear that just now? That was the sound of 1 million television sets all turning the channel at the same time.
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Isn't Langoria's 15 minutes up yet? What a fame whore.
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anyone got a torrent?
I'm sure w/ anyone w/ MTV that sounds ridiculous
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A little part of me died during R. Kelly's.... whatever the hell that was.
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Check out the lifts on Billy-Joe! Is that insecurity? Vanity? What is that? Sorry for the long link.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050829.wmtv0829/BNStory/Entertainment/
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i personally didn't think there was enough bling.
p.s. r. kelly peed on underage girls and filmed it
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N, i couldn't agree more. is it me, or is eva in every article remotely relevant to pop culture? and does she have an album out? why was she a presenter at the vmas? she's not even from miami, is she? you'd think mtv would let a musician use that presenting spot. (i know, i know... we shouldn't have any 'high' expecations of mtv). whatever, her 15 minutes should be up by now. but as blonde geek pointed out, i think her camel toe is just about to embark on its own 15-minute ride of fame...
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my chemical romance were hot. i still want to make sweet love to kelly clarkson. the killers didn't suck. i want to make dirty-talking raunchy love to jessica alba. green day's victory lap was well-deserved, but kind of boring. jay-z is the biggest pimp in the music industry right now (exhiibit a: mariah carey). and what about the 'don't let jerry win' promos featuring bloc party and mia? hmmm. oh yeah: kanye west even has the dorked-out still-living-with-mom bed-wetters @ pitchfork wishing they could be black just for one day. 9.5, bitches! i want to hang out with jeremy piven, and can we talk about lil kim?
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I recorded the whole show (it was in the middle of the nite here in europe, that's so fuckin insane) and totally fast forwarded the 50 Cent performace, becuz it sounded like my CD-player was having troubles readin a CD. I mean, one skip after another.... aren't rappers supposed to make clean versions of their tracks that they can actually perform publicly?
And yeah, Mariah's performance of Shake It Off was weird... like, she always had to have the right leg in front, like something's wrong with the second leg... Loosen up already!
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...and i am SO high right now! there's nothing like a monday morning wake-n-bake after a long weekend of mtv award shows, a new episode of 'entourage' and lots of hot sex with my fabulous girlfriend.
priceless.
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Nobody cares that you had sex this weekend N, stop cyber bragging.
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Hmmm, a whole lot more cursing than usual, was that some kind of "statement"? Wow, way to fight the system! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! And bleep!
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We blogged the whole thing. Clickyclicky.
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how bad are green day. just go away already.
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Ok two questions:
1. Why did they bring back MC Hammer for the night?
2. Why isn't R.Kelly strapped in a jacket?
oh and bonus:
3. Isn't anyone weirded out that Lil'Kim appears on an Award show before going to jail?
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I watched the first 5 minutes, then as soon as I found out the show was 'hosted' by Diddy, I switched to 'Brilliant But Cancelled' on Trio and Family Guy.
Great Entourage, though, BTW. I cried more than I did during the SFU finale...
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holy cannoli. i have so many questions, so many .. why did diddy allow such weird new-age theme music to be played in his presence? why was john norris wearing a purple, rhinestone bedazzled, backless muscle tee? why does ricky martin have a new single out featuring fat joe & amerie? why didn't gwen stefani win anything, & wasn't she boycotting the whole show? what fresh hell happened to fall out boy in the pre-show? has kanye west replaced god & all religion? has gideon yago gained weight? m.c. hammer?
yeah. um .. eric roberts, i'd like my full refund. you can quit doing video cameos & go back to mars, if you want.
also, i thought at first that the neon "mtf" on chris martin's piano stood for "music television fuckingsucks", but apparently it means "make trade fair". oh well.
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Here;s tha vid clip Mandy! http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=KWCl6It5WoI
one.
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"Nobody cares that you had sex this weekend N, stop cyber bragging."
Ummm, that wasn't me...
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Diddy is beyond criticism. I mean...there's no point criticizing someone who is pound for dollar, the stupidest rich man in America. All the same: I am relieved to note that at last nite's awards Fergie's notorious urinary incontinence problem was held in check.
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After watching the show,I can only say I'm really sorry rock 'n roll has come to this.
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The VMA's were just plain ghetto. It's so freak-in useless MTV just need's to stop it. What I learned right now is that Music is basically bull shit and everyone in that Arena is just plain clueless. Even though Green Day is not my first choice when I want to hear "Punk Rock", I'm glad they won an award for an album questioning and bashing our government which some of these idiot(Negros) should have been doing instead of rapping about bitches and hoes and freak-in diamonds. I'm not a bigot I'm just aware of an educated person versus Ignorant people. Also the white trash was not far behind Hence Ice T's Coco and Lindsay Lohan.... Gwen, Gwen you should have just stayed home since you looked pissed off the whole time
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":55: Pre-show action! Fall Out Boy perform. Sway likes their "energy." Suchin looks hot interviewing Fiddy. Gideon Yago isn't emo anymore? Loder looks sweaty."
Gideon still looked excellent. except for the damn aviator glasses. seriously. that trend should never have started. and Chuck Norris? what was with the straightened hair and highlights?
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This is difficult to admit, but I can't get that damn My Chemical Romance song out of head now. It's so f'ing good, it's disgusting.
And would everyone please stop dissing Kelly Clarkson!
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Kelly's hot, R Kelly's is a parody of himself, Diddy is an egomaniacal asshole, that My Chemical Romance song is horrible, so is that Fall Out Boy song, the Simpson sisters are retarded and they have sex with their dad, Coldplay is boring, Gwen is hot, I'd be pissed off too, and Green Day is played the fuck out!
Overall score for the VMA's: D-
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awards dominated almost entirely by rap = boring insufferable monotonous splat. i like a little on my ipod, maybe even a little in a club but live mc'ing is generally bollox.
keeellly-what-are-half-of-you-on-about-its-such-utter-shiiit-clarkson.
only fair piff duddy should be skinned and salted. hes like the emperors new clothes, everyone secretly knows he's a mindless pile of diamonds. i think also that he was actually in charge of some ofthe shambles cause the music half the time and whole perception of cool was pretty schizoid and wafer thin
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Golly, there are some great comments on this.
VMA = A+ pathetic. But, you must admit, it was really entertaining because what else would there be to talk about today and get our minds off Katrina and the Waves (literally)?
The thing I kept asking out loud was what in the hell was fergie doing every time they close-up'd on her? i already realized she borrowed my car chamois for her dress...but, what was with the frenzied clapping/smiling? Did I miss something? No, no I don't think I did.
Beavis & Butthead rescued it for me and my viewers, but we turned the whole thing off at 9:30 west coast time.
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i think mc hammer was the ghost of hip-hop past, there to warn kanye about the route all successful mainstream rap artists go.
one thing i asked myself a few times throughout the night... i wonder if dave chappelle is watching this?
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jay-z and beyonce of rock...haha.
wtf was up with jessica simpson's hair and outfit?
why wasn't mariah carey singing her song and more focused on where her leg was at? why is she still on mtv?
diddy acts so much like people actually give a shit about him, it's funny.
what was the point of r. kelly's performance? he didn't even do anything.
why does everyone love missy elliott's last single so much?
why did the camera's focus more on blank audience reactions rather than the show?
why the fuck was dane cook there? what good has he contributed to society other than the su-fi?
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Fuck off, Tre! Nobody gives a damn about ManiaTV. "Be there or be dead"? Jesus Christ...
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it triggered me when jamie foxx was introducing destinys child. he's all like, "they sold 3 million albums and that's hard to do when ya'll be downloading"
asswipe.
diddy sucks at dancing.
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I agree with the commenter above who said Beavis and Butthead were the best part of the show.
I miss those guys...Butthead is like, the original Napoleon Dynamite.
"I hope this evening finds you well..huh huhhhhhuuh huhhh *smokes pipe*"
perfection.
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What's w/ all the bashing of hip hop artists. I know
Diddy is freakin ridiculous but that doesn't mean all black artists are the same. Even though Kanye West is incredibly conceited, he's definitely a talented guy.The fact that R.Kelly looked crazy last night is actually helping him sell more records. I think this is the only time this year that I've actually watched MTV.
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Ok me you win! your sunday night was the best so far...
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The Bravery lost to Fall Out Boy??? Thoses votes were so rigged! Only on MTV can you watch such pish!
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thank you jazmine for saying that diddy sucks at dancing!!
he looked like someone have a seizure up there...worst. host. ever.
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The Bravery lost to Fall Out Boy but they won the big Saturn commercial. I don't know if anyone saw that, but they were asking The Bravery how their music relates to Saturn's new convertable.. it was horrible. The Bravery are corporate whores.
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We want to see pictures of Eva Longoria's outfit
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