MYV Video Music Awards. Did you watch it? Did you like it? Please help me here, because I really found it boring.

For example:

1. Jamie Foxx really was not funny. At all. OK, maybe, like, once or twice, but that is it.

2. All the performances, especially Britney's, were just dull.

3. Aaliyah - 15 minutes. Joey Ramone - 15 seconds Enough said.

And someone please tell me what the hell "H to the iz O, V to the iz A" means!

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Answers

I caught a few minutes of it at the beginning, and had to turn it off because I was so embarrassed for poor ol' Jamie Foxx. Gah, it was bad. I'm glad I didn't watch the rest of it.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

We Tivo'd the 11:30pm broadcast so we can watch it tonight and skip the stupid parts. Sounds like we'll be doing a lot of skipping.

I think we're all just getting too old for MTV. On the Pre-Show they were interviewing Brittney Spears and Mick Jagger side-by-side. Now, I actually like Brittney, but Mick Jagger is a fucking LEGEND of rock, you don't just stick him on the next stool and interview him 2nd as the afterthought after discussing Brittney's dress. And then fawn all over him about the new Stones album knowing the whole time that MTV won't play a single damn second of any video they make for that album.

Also, Gwen Stefani? I thought you dropped that 40's ho by way of ska look? The pink hair looked better.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Yeah, but the thing with Ben Stiller and Puff Daddy was hilarious. As was the little puppet that asked Jennifer Lopez if he could smell her butt.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Of course, I stopped watching after that....

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

The dog puppet was pretty damn funny. I get the feeling that J Lo told her "people" to kick that guy's ass in the alley after the show.

And, yes, Ben Stiller was damn funny. "Diddy the magic P Dragon"? Damn funny.

The best part was the animal clips they showed for each category. And I think I may need to go but a Moby CD since he was the only person all night who was able to string together three coherent sentences.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

How about the U2 fiasco, where they cut to a COMMERCIAL right as the band was making their appearance, and then had to do it OVER after the commercial?

Stupid idiots.

I watched part of it with a friend, and the only good part was the Michael Jackson thing. Like my friend said, "man... it's all rap, and kids. Sheesh."

Oh, and of course, Triumph the Wonder Dog is always a hit. The JLo thing was good. I bet the guy who works that puppet gets his ass kicked on a regular basis.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

If I was J.Lo (and come on, I practically am), I would take a full page ad out in Variety that said "EVERYBODY, GET OFF MY ASS."

We watched to the end just to see Britney and then... what? She totally disappoints. A snake? Oh yeah, that was excit...zzzzzzz.

And a tiger in a cage? Wooo! Hey, people, this isn't Vaudeville, ok? We've seen tigers on TV before - and frankly, we've seen them do more interesting things.

I think Jamie Foxx is very funny, but he wasn't last night (except when he screwed up that Jay-Z entrance). I think they spend too much time thinking up ways to trash the artists and it is biting them in the ass. Even Chris Rock wasn't funny the last time he tried that.

Gwen Stefani could show up bald and wearing a sack cloth and I would still want to marry her.

Funniest thing ever? That little clip they did of the guy talking about Snoop who said "So, I told Snoop and he said 'yizeah.'" OH! And Jamie Foxx singing BEYOTCHES! in his opera opening.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Why did they even HAVE them this year??? It went exactly the same way as last year. Tragically unfunny African American host, every award goes to NSync, stripperesque performance by Britney Spears, the end. YAWN. The only thing that distinguished this year's awards were the myriad fuck-ups. Janet Jackson flubbing Aaliyah's tribute (very nice), Jamie Foxx prematurely announcing Jay-Z, U2 starting and stopping their performance. And if you didn't watch it live you'll miss it because they edit that shit out on the replays.

Michael Jackson. I was thrilled he showed up but I believe boyfriend is suffering a pulled muscle in his back or something. He didn't dance all that well and looked EXHAUSTED after he was done. And it was hard to see him through the smoke and with NSync huddled all around him.

How about Mya strandled in the middle of that gaggle of SKEEZERS? Pink, Lil Kim, and Christina Aguilera all looked like the cheapest, most ridiculous crack whores who have ever raided the bargain bin at Takeisha's House of Skank. But at least Christina looked like she has finally put on some weight. She even had a cute little poochy belly.

That dude from Outkast and his green and orange overalls! That guy is a TRIP.

Kevin from the Backstreet Boys: still wearing skirts, still dumber than a box of rocks.

Jungle Britney. What the hell ever. It was just an amateur lap dance at the Rain Forest Cafe.

That little idiot in the post show interview tent asking SNOOP of all people if he "still gets nervous doing things like this." Does he not realize he is speaking to the PIMP OF THE YEAR?!?! Snoop called him "nephew." BWAHAHAHAHA! I love me some Snoop.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

AAAAAH! I missed the second hour! Sound like their may have been some decent stuff.

The only thing really good in the first hour was Alicia Keys' performance. Man, Jamie Foxx was so not funny. And people actually write that stuff?

Now I now why I usually don't bother to watch. Are the MTV Movie awards any good?

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Maybe we are too old, but it sucked. Like a Hoover. Big, monstrous gulps of stinky suck.

Highlight from what I saw: Tim Robbins, sitting with what was probably his son, looking utterly bored and slightly irritated.

The whole thing reminded me of a really lame high school sponsored dance. Everyone was eyeballing each other non-stop, but there was nothing to see except other people eyeballing back. Yawn.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Allison - Gwen and I are already engaged. We're just keeping it a secret.

Sorry.

And we had it on here, and it was just awful. What was with the MTV2 winners ... I forget their name, but they do that awful "Clint Eastwood" song that WHFS plays five times an hour? Were they high?

BTW, at least Joey Ramone got a nice eulogy in the Sunday Times a couple of months back.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

'Cause I'm a big dork, I went and looked at the archives. I don't know, y'all. It's not as if the VMAs were bastions of artistic integrity ten years ago.

But then again, the Breakthrough Video nominees (winner first):
1988: INXS, George Harrison, Suzanne Vega, Squeeze, XTC
1989: Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones, Paula Abdul, Elvis Costello, The Escape Club, Fine Young Cannibals, Michael Jackson, Jody Watley
1990: Tears for Fears, Paula Abdul, Sinéad O'Connor (for "Nothing Compares 2 U," which won Best Video that year), Red Hot Chili Peppers
1991: REM (that was the year of "Losing My Religion"), Deee-Lite, Seal, Enigma
1992: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tori Amos, David Byrne, Van Halen
1993: Los Lobos (!?!), Aerosmith, Green Jelly, George Michael, Porno for Pyros, Terence Trent D'Arby
1994: REM, Deep Forest, Bjork, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails

skipping ahead . . .

2001: Fatboy Slim, Common, REM, Gorillaz, Robbie Williams, *NSYNC

I'm not sure what this means, other than somebody respectable usually manages to sneak into the Breakthrough Video category.

edited by Hannah

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Ack. Can y'all read that? I should've put in BR tags.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

India Arie was up for the MTV2 award, and there was a little place inside of me that cheered when she didn't win. I really dig her, and the cd has earned permanent fixture in my player, but....but....but I just don't want to know that I share her with the 9-14 crowd just yet.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

Flat out, it was time to watch the Food Network as soon as Staind took the stage.

Britney made me feel like I was watching one of those Disney parades that never, ever ends, crossed with the Lion King on Broadway, crossed with the production of Midsummer Nights Dream we did my junior year of highschool, crossed with a bad PBS special. And the Croc Hunter. She looked like she was going to fall. I also think she may have been wearing Platform jellies underneath those HIP legwarmers with the puffy painted vines. Flashback to fifth grade.

Part of me wished that the kidlets who made fun of NSYNC on MADtv (They did this great sketch, "NSYNC: Never stop the dance") had actually performed FOR NSYNC. I just felt bad. Part of me wished the motorcycle/side car would backfire or something, add some "pop" (No pun intended) to the performance. Justin was trying to reach back into his MMC days. Not working, chemosabe.

Jacko looked scared. Poor thing.

-- Anonymous, September 09, 2001