2005 VMAs: 3 hours of my life wasted? Or 120 minutes that I'll never get back again?

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Highlight of the evening: MC Hammer. (Six words I never thought I’d utter.)

Lowlight of the evening: R. Kelly embarrassing himself by lip-syncing/pantomiming a new chapter to his ridiculous “Closet” video saga. Why the hell does a song this bad get produced and performed on live television?
And I’m a little surpirsed Kelly Clarkson closed the show. I thought they usually saved a really huge act/surprise for the closer. I would’ve rather seen Hammer given a little more airtime and let him close the show. Or, this being Miami, had a giant medley of Latin artists close it out. Or Michael Jackson(!).
Thoughts? Favorites? Any ideas as to where they cryogenically store Kurt Loder’s body between award shows?

Happy

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Additional topic of discussion: Why am I under the impression there are only 120 minutes in a three-hour award show?

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Watching MTV causes missing time? Interesting.

On the other hand, I guess you got about an hour of commercials and two hours of “show.”

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I didn’t see it, was it Hammer performing an old hit that was a highlight, or what?

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Hammer performed ‘U Can’t Touch This.’

And, honestly, am I the only friggin’ person who watched this? Or just the only friggin’ person man enough to admit it. :wink:

Happy

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You’re not counting the hour of commercials?

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I, too, watched the VMAs.

To begin with, it should be noted that Hammer did NOT perform the entire song (which I thought was especially lame). Hammer is the coolest and the entire audience seemed really into his minute long snippit of You Cant Touch This.

That seemed to be a theme: short bits of songs, thrown together, during odd medleys (or, as 50 cent called them: “melodies”). For instance, they did the little Puerto Rican, Reggeaton production where each artist sang about 30 seconds (Daddy Yankee included, who sings the hit song Gasolina). That just seemed silly- I’d rather hear the entire song.

Is it me or did “Diddy’s” intro seem like a bad Las Vegas show? He was trying so hard…aye.

Shakira is so, friggin’ hot. I want to have her hot, latin babies. :smiley:

Oh, I wrote an entry in my journal about Jessica Simpson, Shakira, Ricky Martin, and Ms. Lohan (nothing too indepth, but linked in the sig).

I have to say, the show seemed better than last year. I miss Jimmy Fallon hosting- he did that HILARIOUS intro with him singing remakes of all the songs (Hot in Here, Hero, etc).

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Oh and um, see! Right there in the sig! :smack:

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Oh for the love of…

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Don’t you have Tivo? The show went like this: Boobies, boobies, The Rock Song not by Greenday, Beavis and Butthead, boobies, fin.

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Wait, you just learned that any big MTV production number is a waste of your time NOW?

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They still make videos?

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Didn’t see it, but watched the photos as they passed over the AP wire.

Dopers, the noughts are the new '70s. Horrible hair (especially the faux short-haired mohawks), horrible clothes, White Stripes clones everywhere, mixing white and black clothes and Jessica Simpson looking like a combination between a rabid French maid and an Edward Gorey character.

Yeah, I had A Flock of Seagulls in my yut, but there was very little then that looks embarrassing now. This was the nadir of lame.

Except for Shakira, of course.