MTV VMA Afterthoughts

WOW! Just watched the VMA's (doubt any of you have actually bothered to watch it). Here's james' quick 5 minute (or less) recap!

Britney Spears opened the show with her hawt new single... However, the performance was mediocre at best. Where-as in the good ol' days, you watch her performance, your attention is split between the craziness of the production, her abs, the amount of sex she's selling (and selling well), and that damned python she's carryin'/that barely not there costume/that madonna, this time around it's a bit different. The opening sequence consisted of brit brit barely dancing... and just being groped by her fellow backup dancers (i guess that's the way she likes it cuz... guess what K-fed was? ding ding ding! a back up dancer!). Your attention is split between her dazed and confused face, her still not singing live after all this time, her beer/post-pregnancy belly being showcased by the black sports bra (? i dunno what that is, and matching underwear costume... ) and jigglin' as she's a dancin'... and the whole badness of the dancing.

Whereas before she wuz dominant, confident, and pointed her finger/flicked her wrists with flare and sexuality... now it's almost like watching a badly edited episode of MTV's MADE: a show where MTV sends life coach/choreographer to teach talentless kids how a smidgen of skill in whatever they want to be made into... (the end usually results in a performance). Them kids did a better job than she did. Brit Brit, if you wanna get back into the game, you gotta bring all u got and stop F***ing drinking and partying! GET yo'WERK on!

On a brighter note... Linkin Park, Chris Brown/Rihanna, and Timbaland/JT/Nelly Furtado live performances rocked... and Alicia Keys (the lovely lesbian that she could potentially be -- damn gurl, those were some sparkly boots!) killed her performance! IT WUZD AWESOME!