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This year’s MTV Video Music Awards were the first major awards show of the Covid era, which meant it had something rare for VMA: an explanation of why it exists.show a pandemic, with social estrangement and without an audience.MTV had originally planned it as a live exhibition from the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, but it became a virtual gala full of fuss-glare pre-recorded.gave him a sense of artistic threat and emotional problems; for once, it seemed like a genuine display.Even the Black Eyed Peas couldn’t ruin it (although in fact they tried).
Were everyone hungry for an award ceremony?Were artists desperate for the possibility of strutting and becoming pop stars after a summer of cancelled tours?Were you grateful to sign up for an old-fashioned, pointless glam pop party for the moments of lack of fun?Did you look for an antidote to the triumph of TikTok’s will that was last week’s Republican convention?Was it a relief to avoid the energetic behind-the-scenes chat scene?, everyone seized the opportunity. (Almost all, did I mention the Black Eyed Peas?)
If MTV sought to maximize social estrangement, they may have simply ensured that other people would stay away by bringing back last year’s presenter, Sebastian Maniscalco.Remember: the horrible comic buzzes about your mother’s zucchini recipe and what about the kids in those days?(But it was amazing a few months later at Scorsese’s The Irishman, betting on crazy Joey Gallo, so we all have a position on the cosmic plane.)This year’s host, Keke Palmer, kept him low from the start.With a determination to the vanquished Chadwick.Boseman, he spoke about Black Lives Matter and the Kenosha police riots and said, “We can never tolerate police brutality or any injustice.”
Since artists may simply not do live shticks, they ended up being forced to make music videos, the last thing you expected to see on MTV.(What a concept!) They were released in front of green screen sound scenes that may only have been Zoom backgrounds, with false audience noises and CGI fireworks. However, the simulated vivacity gave the screen a liver feeling of the usual.Miley Cyrus has set the tone: he is in a position to turn the VMA into his livejournal from year to year., since its historic twerk of 2013 “We Can’t Stop”. He sang a fantastic ‘Midnight Sky’, climbed aboard to ride a disco ball and evoke his ‘Wrecking Ball’ days.It was a lovely moment, the true maxim What he’s done in the VLAs since the terror on his face on the screen of 2015, when Nicki Minaj shouted, “Miley, what’s so good?”
BTS made its VMA deyet a long time ago with a hyperactive “Dynamite”, in the end going to the big level and seizing its moment.They made the elegant disco party flavored ‘Dynamite’ dressed in 80s film workwuits against a backdrop of Manhattan/Seoul: it was a bit of Fred Astaire, a bit of Backstreet Boys, but unmistakably BTS.(I love TRL-era headphone microphones).Jungkook was in a wonderful form of rap, “Milk Cup, let’s rock /King Kong, kick the drum/Rolling like a Rolling Stone.”(The first time Dylan gained a VMA scream in a long time.)
The Weeknd sang “Blinding Lights” in helicopters over New York, and eventually won the video of the year.He gave the same speech twice: “It’s hard for me to celebrate now and enjoy this moment, so I’m just going to say justice for Jacob Blake and justice for Breonna Taylor.”DaBaby made a ferocious “Rockstar” on a police car in front of a sign that said, “Stop killing us.”Taylor Swift won by directing “The Man,” giving a poignant speech from a distance to thank enthusiasts and insert a reference to folklore.She won her award from Drew Barrymore, who put all her grunge fervor to shout the name, “Taylor Swift!”
CNCO introduced the charm offensive of the old-school kids’ night organization, doing “Kiss” in a drive-in, taking them over cars.It is safe to say that CNCO are the recruits who have made the most new enthusiasts in this show.CNCO and Muluma performances would have been live from a drive-in in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, unless Minions appeared at the theater at the time.
MTV received the “Best Alternative” video award for the first time since last year, the VMA had an Alternative category, Green Day won it with “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”, beating Radiohead, Garbage and The Verve.This year’s Alternative Award was for an artist so young and annoying that he once played Tommy Lee in a Hollywood film: Congratulations to Machine Gun Kelly, which beat Lana Del Rey, 21 Pilots, Finneas and 1975 All Time Low.are now — entertain us.
But Lady Gaga was the star of the night, treating her as a coronation of her Chromatica era: 10 years after her triumph in a meat dress in 2010, she proved hungry to reclaim the edge of glory.Just take a projector like this for granted, I was proud to blow it up; a year ago, he even welcomed his adjustment ego Jo Calderon.But this year, she sought to exhibit herself, to get the advantages of all.the maximum live functionality of the evening, making a combination of the highlights of Chromatica, with Ariana Grande for “Rain on Me”.When she sat at the piano to do “Stupid Love,” it was a poignant reminder of how she can be a phenomenal live artist and how hungry she is to come back and play those songs in front of people.
She reveled in the pandemic elegance of the mask dance, dressed in a multitude of avant-garde masks and each making a statement of fashion and politics.(It was like the year REM won for “Losing My Religion” and Michael Stipe continued to become even turned his Video Vanguard Award into something new called “Tri-Con,” which is essentially the same as the Millennium Award artist Michael Jackson decided to win in 2002.Maybe next year you’ll return to your Tri-Con at Quadricon or Octoglom?
Chloe x Halle, made a stellar red carpet “An unholy hour”, one of the highlights of the night’s music.Doja Cat gave a shout to the old MTV, betting on a VJ doing a report on Kurt Loder-tastic.He also won the award for Best New Artist by saying, “Stay and thank you, Mom.”Blackpink won the song of the summer for “How You Like That”, which only makes you wish that 2020 could give Blackpink a summer more worthy of this wonderful song.
The night was lit with the maximum possible complicated climax: Ladies and gentlemen, the Black Eyed Peas, thawed with their neon light bars in the crotch in a position to go.They launched their Anthem MySpace Top 8 “I Gotta Feeling” to evoke the bad in the old days ten years ago, as if MTV were in a position that sought to change the nostalgia of the ERA of GTL and the tycoon girls.began again “under canned applause in an empty room?
Will.I.Am and his team were very pleased to be there, despite everything he made his VMA debut.As he explained on the red carpet, “you know when you’ve been there as long as the Peas, and you, ” have you sat in countless seats on MTV, watching the days of Weezer and Green Day, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and all ages?”And were you looking to be on stage?” I’m glad it means so much to them.For the rest of us, it was strangely joyful not to forget how bleak music was in 2010, and how much we’ve traveled since then, in a musical year as ridiculously plentiful as this.It was a reminder that music, at least, had taken a step forward, a sign of hope flourishing in those difficult times.Come back, Fergie, everything is forgiven.
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