MTV's VMA Official thread

[LadySusan]

Am I really the first one to post about this?

Miley Cyrus wore silver suspenders and a chain mail loincloth to show maximum skin.  I feel like she is channeling Kylie Minogue.

[LadySusan]

Amber Rose and Blac Chyna went with strident feminism.

“They call us sluts and whores all the time, so we just embrace it,” Rose said during the VMAs pre-show. “I have slut written across my vagina.”

[LadySusan]

This one gives me the sadz.  Why Kim?  Why?  At least Kanye looks comfortable and he's alllllllmost smiling with his eyes?

[LadySusan]

Snoooooore.



And speaking of snoring... where the fuck is everyone, huh?

[LadySusan]

Baddie Winkle...

Who?

[LadySusan]

Apparently "naked dresses" are a thing.  I would expect to see JLo and Rihanna in this line up.  Did they go?  Maybe they went to Portland instead to drink placenta and kale smoothies and complain that they did naked before it was mainstream.

[starlily]

I think almost everyone I know has given up on the VMAs.

#getoffmylawn

[overture]

Aug 30, 2015 22:49:09 GMT -5 LadySusan said:

This one gives me the sadz.  Why Kim?  Why?  At least Kanye looks comfortable and he's alllllllmost smiling with his eyes?

I think this may be the least flattering thing I've ever seen her in. And that's saying a lot.

[ap]

This show is full of narcissistic one-uppers.  I realize that it probably always has been and it's me that's changed.  I'm okay with that.

[overture]

Also I've given up on rolling my eyes at Miley. Anybody who lets Laganja Estranja deathdrop on national TV is on my good list.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Miley was like your friend from childhood who spent a semester abroad and came home and wouldn't shut up about that one time she dropped acid. We get it, girl, you like weed. Move on.

Kanye was killing me during his...acceptance speech? I guess that's what that was? Goddamn what a mess. . I was watching, like "can someone help Kanye? I think she's having a stroke?"

The rest of it was lame and weird. I was excited to see Justin Bieber's Stefan haircut tho.

[IIOY]

LOL that this thread has nine posts. We are getting old.

[secretlyevil]

The Today Show's recap is just sad. Kanye is running for president in 2020.

[eclaires]

Aug 31, 2015 6:35:13 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

The Today Show's recap is just sad. Kanye is running for president in 2020.

I'm voting for him; I already decided. Because why not?

[bernsteincat]

My husband and I watched it, though I couldn't tell you why. I really like Miley's low speaking voice (I have one, too) and could almost find her schtick funny if she weren't trying so hard. I spent the whole show being German embarrassed for everyone. Namely Kanye and Biebs.

I seriously thought shit was going to jump off between Nikki Minaj and Miley.

[Velar Fricative]

I miss the VMAs of yore when Fiona Apple said this world is bullshit and Courtney Love threw shit at Madonna.

[jeaniebueller]

It was a simpler time...

[bernsteincat]

Aug 31, 2015 8:00:10 GMT -5 @koko said:

Nicki Minaj throwing epic level shade at Miley and Rebel's "OH SHIT!!" expression as she did it MADE MY ENTIRE NIGHT.

We replayed and paused it at that moment several times. That was fantastic.

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I haven't seen a single good outfit from this year. I am also really grumpy today but come on. They're not even trying.

[heyjude]

I have never heard a single song by Miley Cyrus. Not a one.

Before you say, "wait! What about wrecking ball??!!" Save it. Never heard it.

[heyjude]

And does MTV even air music videos anymore?!

[Deleted]

I just went through the buzzfeed list. I recognize almost none of these people. Damn I'm old.

[jeaniebueller]

Transcript of the Kanye speech for those who are interested:


Update, Aug. 30, 2015: Here's the transcript, in all its Kanye glory:


“Bro! Bro! Listen to the kids! Jeremy, I got to put it down for a second. It's beautiful. Jeremy Scott designed it. First of all, thank you, Taylor, for being so gracious and giving me this award this evening. Thank you. [Cheers and applause]


And I often think back to the first day I met you also. You know, I think about when I'm in the grocery store with my daughter, and I have a really great conversation about fresh juice, you know, and at the end they say, "Oh, you're not that bad after all." And, like, I think about it sometimes like—it crosses my mind a little bit like when I go to a baseball game and 60,000 people boo me. It crosses my mind a little bit. [Cheers and applause]


And I think if I had to do it all again, what would I have done? Would I have worn a leather shirt? Would I have drank a half a bottle of Hennessey and gave the rest of it to the audience? Y'all know y'all drink that bottle, too. If I had a daughter at that time, would I have went on stage and grabbed the mic from someone else's? You know, this arena tomorrow, it's going to be a completely different setup, some concert, something like that. This stage will be gone. After that night, the stage was gone but the effect that it had on people remained. The—the problem was, the contradiction. The contradiction is I do fight for artists. But in that fight, I somehow was disrespectful to artists. I didn't know how to say the right thing, the perfect thing. I just—I sat at the Grammys and saw Justin Timberlake, and Cee-Lo lose. Gnarls Barkley, and—the "Sexy Back" album, and bro, Justin, I ain't trying to put you on blast, but I saw that man in tears, bro. You know. And I was thinking, like, he deserves to win Album of the Year.


And this small box that we are as the entertainers of the evening, how could you explain that? Sometimes I feel like, you know, all this going on about beef and all that, sometimes I feel like I died for the artist's opinion, for the artist to be able to have an opinion after they were successful. I'm not no politician, bro! And look at that. You know how many times MTV ran that footage again, because it got them more ratings? Do you know how many times they announced Taylor was going to give me the award because it got them more ratings? [Cheers and applause]


This is for the kids, bro! I still don't understand awards shows. I don't understand how they get five people who work their entire life, one that sold records, sold concert tickets, to come, stand on a carpet, and for the first time in their life be judged on a chopping block and have the opportunity to be considered a loser. I don't understand it, bro! I don't understand when the biggest album or the biggest video—I been conflicted, bro! I just wanted people to like me more! [Cheers and applause]


But fuck that, bro! 2015! I will die for the art, for what I believe in, and the art ain't always going to be polite. You might be thinking right now, I wonder, did he smoke something before he came out here? The answer is yes, I rolled up a little something, I knocked the edge off. [Cheers and applause]


I don't know what's going to happen tonight. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, bro. But all I can say to my artists, my fellow artists, just worry how you feel at the time, man. Just worry about how you feel and don't never—you know what I'm saying? I'm confident. I believe in myself. We the millennials, bro. This is a new mentality. We not going to control our kids with brands. We not going to teach low self-esteem and hate to our kids. We going to teach our kids that they can be something. We going to teach our kids that they can stand up for they self. We're going to teach our kids to believe in themselves. If my grandfather was here right now, he would not let me back down. I don't know what I stand to lose after this. It don't matter, though, because it ain't about me, it's about ideas, bro. New ideas. People with ideas, people who believe in truth. And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.” [Cheers and applause]

[meshaliuknits]

Aug 31, 2015 8:43:24 GMT -5 heyjude said:

And does MTV even air music videos anymore?!

Yes. Around 5am.

[iammalcolmx]

Aug 31, 2015 8:00:10 GMT -5 @koko said:

Nicki Minaj throwing epic level shade at Miley and Rebel's "OH SHIT!!" expression as she did it MADE MY ENTIRE NIGHT.

Now I need to go watch.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

My students came in this morning ranting about Miley's shenanigans. I need to watch a recap.

[heyjude]

Aug 31, 2015 9:19:09 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

heyjude - what about that Party in the USA song?

Newp.

[iammalcolmx]

Aug 31, 2015 9:51:53 GMT -5 @koko said:

Kanye is out of every goddamn bit of his mind.

But this still makes me LOL:

[Velar Fricative]

I had to go and see what @koko was talking about and found this:

www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/nicki-minaj-miley-cyrus-and-the-vmas-tone-policing-palooza/402913/

And now I'm LOLing at Rebel's expression too.




Also, Miley said the quote was twisted by the NYT. I don't buy it. Unless NYT purposely put words you never said into your month, there is nothing about what she said that could be misinterpreted due to tone. She basically said Nicki is not a nice person. 

[heyjude]

Why is the narrative that all the women hate each other?