mtvU 2007 Woodie Awards: Spank Rocked
There's a grand tradition being hatched at mtvU's Woodie Awards show. Sure, there's the live performances that come at a 50/50 mix of stuff we like (last year TV On The Radio, this year, say, Rilo Kiley) and stuff we don't (last year and this year: most of the rest) and the knack of tragic award selections (Best Video to Say Anything, over TVOTR's "Province" and Justice's "D.A.N.C.E."). But really, the legacy is cemented in the pit, off camera, where people stop being polite and start being real. Unfortunately, Jared Leto wasn't on hand to repeat last year's douchextranveganza, but this annum's wild card came from a man much nearer and dearer to our hearts.
No, we didn't liveblog the Woodies. And in so doing, not only did we miss our opportunity to comment (in realtime!) on the guyliner parade passing before us, but we also lost our chance to have Spank Rock hijack our site with CAPITAL LETTERS and extr*ane#s symb@ls. Our loss was Best Week Ever's gain. Here's what came from Naeem's rantastic splurge:
i stole a SHEW FRUM ALDO! I’M AT THE WOODY’S BLO0GGERS TABLE. MY DAD’S NAME IS WOODY. NOT JOKING! I TRIEDC TO MAKE OUT WITH TOM DULONGGG. HE WAS INTO IT BUT THERE WERE TOOO MANY CAMAMARERES AROUND. I UNDERSTAND….. I DRANK SOME B*TCH ASS N*GGAS (Ed. Note - That would be Gothamist Guy) BEER. HE AIN;’T DO SH*T. CAUSE I’M GANGSTER. I’M JUST A WILD ASS N*GGA DOING WILD ASS N*GGA SH*T!About that attempted makeout session with Tom DeLonge, see this. You can read that "B*TCH ASS" blogga's take on the situation at Gothamist. And here's a picture of BWE blogger Alex Blagg handling the situation well, and patiently (via Gothamist):
Before, during, and after all this, the Woodies happened. Q-Tip and Talib Kweli presented. Tokyo Police Club did well onstage with "Nature Of The Experiment." Rilo Kiley did an unplugged/guitar-case-beating "Moneymaker." Spank Rock killed it along with our beloved Santogold, doing some Bangers & Cash and some "Rick Rubin," with lots of girls onstage; it was Spank's night all around. And The Academy Is... came out with a string section. Surprisingly, it didn't suck! It sucked orchestrally. Annie Lennox presented the award for most philanthropic band, and it was just as much a pleasure to see her in the flesh as it was to hear "Good Woodie" repeatedly with such dignified elocution. Naeem wasn't done with the show, though. After getting kicked out, Spank hit the afterparty where he tried to run up VJ Kim Stolz's skirt during his post-show interview. Literally. Don't think that'll make the telecast. Now, since only the collegiate folk amongst you will ever even see these things, scroll down for ace photog Abbey Braden's harvest from braving the red carpet and Roseland Ballroom all night. Featuring emo bands that you don't care about! And some other artists that you totally do, promise.
ANNIE LENNOX
PETER & BJORN
FALL OUT BOY
GYM CLASS HEROES
KEENAN THOMPSON
Q TIP
RILO KILEY
SPANK ROCK & SANTOGOLD
LUPE FIASCO
TOKYO POLICE CLUB
TALIB KWELI
TOM DELONGE
THE ACADEMY IS... (not very good)
mtvU winners list...
Woodie of the Year – (Artist of the Year)
Gym Class Heroes
The Breaking Woodie (Best Emerging Artist)
Boys Like Girls
Left Field Woodie (Most Original Artist)
Madvillain
Best Video Woodie (Best Video Of The Year)
Say Anything - "Wow, I Can Get Sexual, Too"
The Good Woodie (Greatest Social Impact)
Guster
Performing Woodie (Best Tour)
Muse
Alumni Woodie (The You're Still OK In Our Book Award)
Spoon
Viral Woodie (Most Downloaded, Streamed, Blogged)
The Academy Is...
The Best Music On Campus Woodie (Most Votes/Streams/Buzz on mtvU's bestmusiconcampus.com)
Stella By Starlight, Duke University
Posted at 1:43 PM in Concert
Tags: Annie Lennox | Fall Out Boy | Jenny Lewis | Keenan Thompson | Lupe Fiasco | Pete Wentz | Rilo Kiley | Santigold | Spank Rock | The Academy Is... | Tokyo Police Club | Tom DeLonge
cue flames
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LMAO to the Academy is... post. It's funny because it's true
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spank rock is JUUUUST about to start outwearing his welcome.
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I am a college student, and as much as I hate MTV, they did succeed in two important things:
1] jenny looks hotter here than she has in a long time
2] spreading the gospel of madvillain, albeit like three years too late (seriously, what the fuck?)
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wait what's annie lennox doing there?
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and those shorts on jenny lewis should be banned--worse fashion choice ever and she's wearing in like every photo from the last 2 years
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@rachel
whaaaat? you're crazy.
She looks smokin' hot in those short pants.
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yet another best gig award for Muse... =D
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i agree with rachel. though, to be fair, jenny seems to bat about .500 when it comes to her wardrobe.
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I feel like making tired guyliner jokes makes you a stereotypical aging hipster that is just as 2 dimensional and incapable of individual thought as the emos you love to hate.
You may hate these people, and they may hate us. But the whole rest of the nonthinking world hates both groups equally. If hipsters and emos made music together, there's would have some content and ours would be more exciting.
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Sorry Rach, but Jenny is smoking in those hotpants!
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the academy isn't ZING
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spank rock's music is the NEW!!!! it's simply the tits.... bangers & cash is the new hot shit!!!!
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