Question is, will this western by the Coen brothers, in which a young girl (Hailee Stienfeld) hires a grizzled US Marshal (Bridges) and a Texas Ranger (Matt Damon) to track down her Pa’s killer (Josh Brolin), be an Oscar contender?
If the trailer is any indication, you bet your sweet ass.
One of the best things about these award shows are the stories that surface usually a day or two after the event and people have had a chance to tell tales out of school.
So with that in mind, apparently Taylor Swift is still plenty mad at Kanye West for storming the stage on her last year. According to the long-winded Ted Casablanca over at E! Online, event organizers wanted Taylor and Kanye to take the stage together at the end of the show to close the book on Kanye-gate.
Allegedly, Taylor hummed and hawed throughout the entire show, keeping people from both her and Kanye’s teams (as well as organizers) trying to convince her, only to have her finally decide not to go with the idea at the last minute.
Totally her choice, but kind of diva-ish for her sweet, wholesome “oh gosh, golly-gee, aw-shucks” image, no? It may have rattled her cage, but Kanye gate was one of the best things ever to happen to her. Nothing like being the victim in a controversy. All of the attention, none of the blame.
Guess the Tylor Swift backlash is about to start.
Granted, there’s probably more Poly-fil, Scotch Tape, and fishing line holding her together than actual flesh, but you gotta give the old broad credit. She looks good.
Cher came out amid a standing ovation to present Video of the Year(which went to Gaga’s Bad Romance) and wryly noted that twenty-some odd years ago when she wore the exact same outfit for If I Could Turn Back Time, it was considered scandalous.
Turn back time? Cher’s frozen it (along with most of her facial expressions).
Cringe worthy pretty much sums it up. I wasn’t sure who to feel more embarrased for, as I was too busy feeling sorry for myself having to watch it.
Anyway.
There’s a non scandal/controversy that people are talking about this morning. Surprisingly, it’s not Nikki Minaj’s apparent lack of skill lip-synching (did Britney Spears teach a course?), it’s Black Eyed Pea will.i.am’s choice of costume when he performed with her.
Apparently, a black man wearing black makeup with an all black outfit constitutes black-face in some circles. According to UsWeekly, the singer got called everything from a “racist” to someone saying that he set the human race “back 1000 years” on Twitter.
will.i.am took to his Twitter, asking the bitchers and whiners if they were being serious (a sense of humour isn’t their strong point – just sayin’) adding that they should chose things that they “bark about” a little more carefully with there being far more relevant things to get offended by.
Like the overall mediocraty of the pre-show, perhaps?
Anyone else find it kind of ironic that a network that barley plays music videos anymore in favor of crap-tastic reality TV programming still has an wards show dedicated to the medium?
Anyway, at this point it’s a foregone conclusion that Chelsea Handler won’t be back to host next year’s awards show, or any other for that matter. Granted, she wasn’t given much to work with fresh out of jail rehab Lindsay Lohan in a pre-taped skit for example, but when your so-so opening is the best part of your hosting duties, your in trouble.
Usher and his little protege the Bieb showed up on the red carpet together (creepy dynamic) and both performed separate numbers during the show. Usher blew the crowd away singing OMG and his new single, DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love Again (great tune), while the Bieb, who’s voice is starting to change, relied on canned music and vocals, even though he had a “drum solo” in which he lost one of the drum sticks several seconds into his performance. No matter though, his followers on Twitter all gave him props for his “amazing performance”. Snort.
Speaking of the Bieb, he also won for Best New Artist for the video Baby, and had trouble finding the stage when he went to accept the award. Cripes, this kid is stupid.
Since the Bieb won for Best New Artist about a year and change after appearing out of nowhere, I’m betting rapper Drake wins it next, even though by that point his album will have been out for over a year and he’ll have been making music for almost two. Such is the time delayed pop-culture relevance of award shows.
Other winners include Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, who’s video Empire State of Mind won for Best Cinematography, Jared Leto’s band 30 Seconds To Mars video Kings and Queens was named for Best Rock Video, and the Black Keys won Breakout Video for Tighten Up.
Innocent?
Meh. Boring is more like it. Granted, I didn’t expect Taylor to storm out on stage and be all, “Is that asshole here?” (although it would have been fun to watch).
Had Taylor gone along the lines of Monologue Song, from when she hosted SNL last year, it would have been far better (not to mention shorter).
Once agian, she got upstaged by her nemisis Kanye West.
…For better or for worse.
Wearing an all red outfit which contrasted beautifully with the white set, Kanye returned to the scene of his crime to sing Runaway to close the VMA’s
Some of the lyrics are as follows.. “Let’s have a toast for the douchebags. Let’s have a toast for the assholes. Let’s have a toast for the scumbags. Let’s have a toast for the jerkoffs. Baby, I got a plan. Runaway fast as you can.”
Clever no? Kanye basically cops to being a dick, while more or less saying at the same time, “hate me all you want to, but life without me would be far less interesting”.
Well played Kanye, well played.
Like a bad smell that you can’t get rid off, MTV constantly plugged Jersey Shore last night, even showing a new episode before the MVA pre-show in a shameless bid to increase ratings.
Hey, whatever works, right?
Love the mid-90′s boy-band look the guys are sporting. Do you think it was intentionally retro? Shockingly, the transsexual Oompa Loompa’s hair actually looked good and there’s been no stories of fights or drunken behaviour from the rest of the cast at after parities. Yet.
L.A. is three hours behind us after all. Stay tuned…
This appearance probably took some heavy duty logistics.
Marshall Mathers (aka Eminem) opened the MTV VMA’s last night with I’m Not Afraid, (which also won for Best Hip Hop Video and Best Male Video) before switching into Love The Way You Lie, where he was joined on stage by Ronald McDonald in his first appearance since losing the make-up and having a sex changeRihanna.
Em didn’t stick around after his performance to pick up his awards though. Once done, he was whisked off to LAX to catch a flight to New York City where he’s performing in a concert with Jay-Z (for the first time) at the new Yankee Stadium tonight.
Word is tickets are going for over $13 000 for the best seats (makes you wonder what scalpers are asking). I’m not the biggest fan of rap or hip hop, but I woudn’t mind seeing this one for myself. The energy would should be amazing.
She didn’t exactly sweep the MVA’s but she didn’t leave empty handed either. Picking up eight moon-men out of thirteen nominations, Lady Gaga changed outfits three times, met Cher (who’s still got it), cried, and gave us the name of her upcoming album.
Gaga said she had promised herself she’d give it up if she won video of the year, which she did for Bad Romance. After accepting the award she let it slip, “Born This Way” and even sung a few bars of the title track.
Other categories Lady Gaga won include…
Best Dance Video – Bad Romance
Best Colaboration Video – Telephone (with Beyonce)
Pop Video – Bad Romance
Female Video – Bad Romace
Best Choreography – Bad Romance
Best Direction – Bad Romance
Best Editing – Bad Romance
I’m just sort of surprised Telephone (which I personally think is actually better than Bad Romance) wasn’t shown more love. What do you think ?
