Beyonce with her VMA. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
Last night, when I posted my previous article about the MTV Video Music Awards on Current.com I got a couple of dozen reaction responses. Those comments were very diverse, but I was surprised by how many young people were more negative about the music content of the VMA's than how awful Russell Brand is, not only as the host, but as a comedian in general.
In fact, many of the posters think that Russell Brand is edgy, political and funny. Okay, we'll just have to agree to disagree and I alone will relish in the fact that I know I'm right.
Following are some of my observations and comments about last night's award show:
1) Kanye West is a classless ass. Perhaps he took his lead from Representative Joe Wilson. (West rudely interrupted Taylor Swift as she was accepting her Best Female Video award.)
2) Madonna can't tell a story.
3) Beyonce Knolls is a class act (and did deserve the Video of the Year). (Beyonce gave up her acceptance speech time to allow Taylor Swift to finish hers.)
4) Taylor Swift is a gracious and seemingly humble young woman.
5) I had had enough of Michael Jackson before he died. (Although the live dancers in front of the video screen Michael was pretty cool.)
6) Pink's performance was amazing. I was so impressed with the spectacle, and the fact that she delivered her song well while doing amazing trapeze choreography. Sure it was sort of like a circus trick. Oh wait, it WAS a circus trick.
7) Eminem wins Best Hip Hop video for his celebrity-slamming song "We Made You." We made him.
8) Russell Brand isn't funny, a good communicator, charismatic or interesting. Bring Jack Black back.
I guess, as some of the young "music lovers" have informed me, the MTV Video Music Awards show has become a product produced primarily by middle-aged men trying to look hip. And yet it's still a relatively entertaining evening with some memorable (albeit mainstream) musical performances.
And if the only thing they have going for them to make it hipper and edgier is Russell Brand...they're screwed.
More on this story: See the Kanye West interview on the Jay Leno Show here.
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