The MTV VMAs

This year's MTV Video Music Awards was one of the most awful displays of what MTV has become today. Panic! at the Disco winning the best video award is a total slap in the face to some of the great artists this year. I remember the classic VMA awards with Nirvana and Green Day performing, and now we get to see bands like 30 Seconds to Mars and My Chemical Romance. I personally, would rather punch myself in the face. MTV is too cool for the Chilli Peppers. They could've put on a better show than any of these bands, playing any song off their double-cd. The Hip-hop categories were also extremely off. No love for Kanye? Gnarles Barkley? 50? What the hell? You can make an arguement saying the 50 track wasn't big enough, or the Gnarles track came out too late, but "Golddigger" by Kanye was huge. Instead, they thought Chamillionare and T.I. were a better fit. Who does T.I. think he is coming out with this "king" nonsense. He claims to be king of the south, although he forgot that Andre 3000, Big Boi, Big Gipp, Cee-Lo, Scarface, Little Brother, Slim Calhoun, Killer Mike, Master P, Silk the Shocker, Mystical, Baby, Juvenile, all those cats, Slim Thug, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Smilez and Southstar and like 10 other dudes are all better than he is. He put out 2 albums, and now he's King of the South? He might make the top 10 list of Atlanta rappers if he's lucky. (Smilez and Southstar was a joke by the way, they are absolutely awful). To get back to the VMAs, my biggest beef was that they ignore the videos, and choose winners based on the song. That is crap. This is the one awards show that specifically recognizes achievement in Music Videos, and they couldn't even do that. The video for "Crazy" by Gnarles Barkley was so clever and well-done, that it is amazing to me that they only won a minor award or two. Forget about best video of the year, that literally was the best video to come out in 5 years. One thing MTV can do right is show some good old-fashioned T & A, and they continue to make good on that promise. The Racounteurs were very cool as well, and Christina looked and sounded amazing.

Just when you thought I was done with this rant, you realized that I neglected to mention the host, Jack Black. He was so terrible, that he needs a separate paragraph. This was perfect proof that he's a funny guy when he has a script written for him, but when he has to do his own writing, it doesn't go so well. It doesn't go so well at all. He's not a stand-up comic, so why make him act like one? He's not that good of an actor, or a writer for that matter. These bits were piss-poor. He didn't even really make fun of anyone there. You suck Jack Black. Can we please have Chris Rock back?
-AS