It's one of the shows I look forward to every year but I admit that these past 5 or more years have declined in quality. Maybe I'm just getting old but you can't deny that despite the new generation of superstars, it's credibility has been lackluster and it's perceived to be a venue to promote and cause controversy and surprises. But it's supposed to be fun and they try to give the viewers just that.
One of the reasons that the show is getting boring is that they are giving only a few awards on-air. The technical awards are announced online and some are announced on the pre-show. Also, in recent years, there seems to be a shortage of celebrities attending. It's mostly the ones nominated who attend. This year, I believe most of the nominees for the Best Rock Video did not attend which is quite disappointing. I miss the days when the guests were varied. Now, the people showing up is all the same. If not, most of those who attend are the new acts trying to gain some exposure.
But let's move on to the show. This year's show was held at the Staples center. Rihanna opened the show with her new single Cockiness with some rapper and followed it up with her big hit, We Found Love featuring Calvin Harris who was also the house DJ of the night, playing the music tracks all night long. There were some surprising wins such as those from Nicki Minaj who won Best Female video and Chris Brown winning Best Male video, beating, believe it or not, Justin Bieber! Speaking of him, he was absent from the show but it didn't matter as he lost all the awards he's nominated for. Yup, what a shocker. But not quite when it's One Direction who he was mainly competing with. During the days leading up to the event, fans of both parties are engaging on fights on twitter and everywhere on the net. Seems like One Direction fans won as the band won 3 VMAs in one night. Despite being the most nominated person for the night, Rihanna only won 1 VMA but to be fair, she won the major award which is the Video of the Year award.
Despite the show running for only 2 hours, which I'm not really sure why when I thought it would be at least 3 hours, we still saw a lot of performances and appearances that night. I read that the show has been moved an hour earlier to avoid competing with Obama's speech in a political convention held the same night but they could have moved it even higher or better yet, put it on another day instead of a Thursday.
I like most of the performances such as those by Pink, Green Day and Alicia Keys with a special appearance of Nicki Minaj and American gymnast, Gabby Douglas, all of whom played their new songs. The crowd also got a treat from performances by One Direction, Frank Ocean, Lil Wayne and Demi Lovato.
But what made me enjoy the most was Taylor Swift's performance. She was very cute and her finale performance was different from her other performances on other award shows. Wearing long sleeved red and white top and short shorts, she danced along with the crowd with her dancers.
The awards show this year lacked some excitement, mainly due to the rapid pacing of the show and lack of surprise factor, I mean c'mon, newcomer One Direction was a heavy favorite just because of their huge fanbase while other veterans are struggling to keep up with these young batch of new performers despite putting out good music but it still made an effort to entertain and I will surely watch out for next year's show.
Meanwhile, take a look at Taylor's performance:
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