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.
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on Aug 31, 2015 5:36:46 GMT -5
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.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Post by bernsteincat on Aug 31, 2015 7:26:46 GMT -5
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.
Post by jeaniebueller on Aug 31, 2015 9:01:18 GMT -5
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]
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.