# 2005 VMAs: 3 hours of my life wasted? Or 120 minutes that I'll never get back again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070 "2005-08-29T04:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/1 "2005-08-29T04:49:02Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/2 "2005-08-29T04:50:47Z")
Additional topic of discussion: Why am I under the impression there are only 120 minutes in a three-hour award show? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/3 "2005-08-29T06:49:21Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Additional topic of discussion: Why am I under the impression there are only 120 minutes in a three-hour award show? Watching MTV causes missing time? Interesting. On the other hand, I guess you got about an hour of commercials and two hours of “show.” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/4 "2005-08-29T13:51:22Z")
I didn’t see it, was it Hammer performing an old hit that was a highlight, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/5 "2005-08-30T00:01:06Z")
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. 😉 Happy ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/6 "2005-08-30T00:22:19Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Additional topic of discussion: Why am I under the impression there are only 120 minutes in a three-hour award show? You’re not counting the hour of commercials? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/7 "2005-08-30T01:02:33Z")
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. 😃 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). ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/8 "2005-08-30T01:05:17Z")
Oh and um, see! Right there in the sig! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/9 "2005-08-30T01:07:08Z")
[Oh for the love of…](http://www.livejournal.com/users/diosabellissima) ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/10 "2005-08-30T01:37:17Z")
Don’t you have Tivo? The show went like this: Boobies, boobies, The Rock Song not by Greenday, Beavis and Butthead, boobies, fin. ---
**Author:** ![mrunlucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/11 "2005-08-30T02:19:53Z")
Wait, you just learned that any big MTV production number is a waste of your time NOW? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/12 "2005-08-30T02:20:21Z")
They still make videos? ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2005-vmas-3-hours-of-my-life-wasted-or-120-minutes-that-ill-never-get-back-again/319070/13 "2005-08-30T02:45:31Z")
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.