Monday, September 14, 2009

2009 VMA's = Highly Entertaining PR Stunts


The VMA's have come and gone, without leaving a trail of "drama" and "crazy outbursts" that have sent Twitter fanatics into an epileptic twitting frenzy.

Of course the biggest news of the night was when Kanye West stormed the stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance of the Best Female Video award for "You Belong With Me." West took the mic and announced that Beyonce had "made the best video of the decade," leaving Swift to stand their shocked, confused, and about to cry.

But everything last night seemed a little too staged for my opinion. Kanye, you've stormed the stage before, that's enough. You didn't win, get over it. No one really swept the awards last night, instead, each major nominee (Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Britney, Eminem) all took home maybe one or two major awards, allowing MTV to have every big name make an appearance and to hopefully boost ratings.

Spears won Best Pop Video for the second year in a row, but this year she actually deserved it. Beyonce was a CLASS ACT, when she won Video of the Year for "Single Ladies" she brought Swift on stage to finish the speech Kanye had interupted.

All in all, a highly entertaining show. Highlights were Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' finale performance, along with Pink flipping her shit on stage while singing Sober.

Thanks for an entertaining night MTV!



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