So, the MTV Music Video Awards were on last night, but because of the time difference it was on crazy late here. So after I'd seen the Madonna performance and Chris Rock's opening monologue I went to bed, taped the rest and saw it this morning with my finger firmly planted on the fast forward button.

But first things first - whoever cut to Justin, while X-Stina was making out with Madonna is sooo fired. What was he thinking!?!
But that wasn't the only weird thing to happen at the VMAs. First someone had to explain a Jenna Jameson joke to Run and then him and DMC were weirdly out of place, while Diddy was making his teary eyed salute to Jam Master Jay (I swear if you run the reaction shots to the Jenna joke in slow you can make out David Spade saying "I wrote that"). And later the BB King dude (apparently his name is Six) suddenly appeared on stage in what almost looked like a planned event.
Also, it was interesting that everybody was too scared to get those Moonmen statues from 50 Cent.

There were several musical performance most of which were pretty bland. My biggest beef is with Beyonce, who chose to lip sync so she could do her dance moves. Even sodding Good Charlotte performed live, but apparently swinging your ass and singing at the same time is too much of a hassle for Beyonsizzle. And the Mary J. Blige performance had already pissed me off before she even made it onto the stage. I know she's just Mary, but she bugs the hell out of me. And why does she always look so terrible? She has so little taste they need to make a special Queer Eye for Mary J. Blige.
The Coldplay performance was cool and the Metallica medley (Are You Gonna Go My Way/Smells Like Teen Spirit/Seven Nation Army/Beat It) was cool as well, but it would have been even better if they'd played more of those songs and skipped Frantic.

I thought the Chris Rock monologue was funny, but Jack Black getting the Super Genius of the Universe Award was the best. Too bad Fred Durst is such a tool. It was also pretty funny seeing Eminem beat the snot out of that puppet from Crank Yankers.
But obviously the biggest joke since Jethro Tull beat Metallica at the Grammys was Justin getting the Best Male Video Award over Johnny Cash. Now, I dig J-Timbo, but come on. The dude has one foot in the grave and made a better video and song than any of those people at the VMAs could ever hope to make. So why give the award to Justin? Makes no sense to me.

It was the twentieth anniversary for the VMAs, so the good people at MTV had announced that there would be a few surprises during the show. I was hoping for a live performance from Duran Duran, so I was surprised (and a bit disgusted) when it was announced that they'd be presenting the Best Dance Video Award with Kelly Osbourne and Avril Lavigne. Anyway, they come on stage, Kelly blabs and blabs, then there's a technical snafu, and suddenly they're presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

It was a bit dissapointing that the presentation of the award was such a mess, but Simon gave a nice speech, and I honestly think they thought it was pretty cool to get the award. They've been getting so much great press lately and were interviewed so much after the show that they need to get their new record out as soon as possible. It's already been postponed to next year (do they even have a label yet?), which is such a mistake. Finish it already and get it out before people start hating you again!

Oh, and Queens of the Stone Age were robbed, man! Robbed, I tell you.