holy shit those lyrics are terrible
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:48 (thirteen years ago) link
it is pretty patronizing
then again, kanye often acts like a 12 year old
― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn’t it easier in your firefly catching days?
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
answer: yes
― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
It’s okay/life is a tightrope/love is a battlefield
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Liked the lyrics during the live performance (before I checked the VMA thread on ILX and found out they were about Kanye, wtf).
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
It’s alright, just wait and seeYour string of lights are still bright to me
shoulda been FLASHING LIGHTS obv
― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Monday, 13 September 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
haaaaaa
― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 September 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
probably was flashing lights in an earlier draft
― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Monday, 13 September 2010 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
guys I watched about half of this on a 6 hour tape delay:
bieber's drum solo was the shit
who was playing in front of the Griffith observatory? it made me feel gross about LA for a minute cause I know ppl who would be like hey cool a free party at Griffith observatory sweet
Rick Ross on the scooter was dope
Lay off eminem dipping out- he's in rehab y'all
pusha t was on point
bummed I missed lilo
I fully endorse every jersey shore joke
I didn't see a thread for VH1's hip-hop honors Def Jam edition but I just gotta say: Trey Songs trying to do Nate Dogg bummed me out more than anything on this awards show u_u
― "ill samosa, hoos" "gibreel, big wrink" (gr8080), Monday, 13 September 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
show was pretty decent this year, really nice visuals for a lot of the performances
anyone see a complete list of performances anywhere? wanna do a poll
― some dude, Monday, 13 September 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Increasingly I'm thinking the 15 seconds of Lady Gaga's new song was the night's best performance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDFHKRFMd4k
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 13 September 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, this is A+:
"I... I never thought I'd be asking Cher to hold my meat purse."
censors didn't even know what to do with that
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 September 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i really loved that taylor's song was all
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/2000074618272338887_rs.jpg
and then Kanye's was all
http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/052/812/original/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif?1275684729
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 September 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah taylor swift got murked, peace out
― max, Monday, 13 September 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Gaga beats swift/kanye for me for realizing there are more people on the planet than Kanye West
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
her "we were born that way!" entertaining jane lynch made up for her "THANK U GAYS FOR IMITATING ME" annoying Ellen
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8ofsyoTKP1qzclrjo1_500.jpg
deal with it
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
how many times can you apply that meme to this thread, let's make it a contest
― some dude, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway Taylor's song was more "you eated my cookie but it's OK because you're still kind of a kitten yourself, bless your heart you crazy diamond"
― some dude, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
how many times can you apply that meme to this thread, let's make it a contest― some dude, Monday, September 13, 2010 10:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― some dude, Monday, September 13, 2010 10:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hey shiply guess what
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the opening video was a really unnecessary limitation of context, but I'm all for Taylor showing sympathy for older kids as well as younger kids
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Kanye talking into a vacuum cleaner about how its his privilege to be an asshole was more engaging though
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
thought it was overkill for them to BOTH play new songs about it, would've been okay if it was just one. i wonder if they heard each other's songs at all in advance.
― some dude, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know if Kanye's was ABOUT IT, but certainly OF it
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
can you even be "you eated my cookie" while being that patronising? i haven't seen the kanye song but that's not the vibe i'm getting at all
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 13 September 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I want Taylor to write a song about how a high school principal has feelings too
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I know you think he's after youBut do you really believe he wants to be here toooooo
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
there was not enough katy perry.
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think since she was one of the big performers at the movie awards in June they didn't want to have her perform on this one, but a "Teenage Dream" perf woulda been good
― some dude, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
it was so weird having basically the biggest pop star of the moment relegated to presenting an award for 30 seconds. i don't even remember what nicki minaj said at all, which says A LOT about katy
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 13 September 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Earlier in the night, the Best Rock Video award went to the diffuse, dull “Kings and Queens,” by 30 Seconds to Mars. If Mr. West had been planning to jump out of his seat at the announcement of one of this night’s winners, that would have been the one, and yet not a peep was heard from him from Caramanica's NY Times piece
Yes
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 September 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
But maybe picking on dull rock at the VMAs is too easy
"Kings And Queens" is a beautiful video, tbh. Its Donnie Darko/Warriors/BatForLashed concept is def hella played out, but the art direction and cinematography are gorgeous.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 September 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know what the video has to do w/ any of those things except i guess Warriors, but yeah, it is a good video (and a good song imo). is Caramanica a butthurt Muse fan?
― some dude, Monday, 13 September 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I was surprised how humble and polite Jared Leto was after seeing his on-stage shtick in their Closer To Edge video
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Closer To The Edge, I mean.
It's the poll that had to be made:
Best/Favorite Performance on the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards POLL
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 13 September 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/6ehsfa.jpg
― prolego, Monday, 13 September 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god, NO, if that would mean we'd have to hear jared leto sing a touching song about it next year.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 13 September 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i wasn't gonna be all pedantic about that line because it's just a lame & obvious joke at the end of the article, but since it's been re-posted & otm'd twice now i'll just point out that a. kanye & jared leto are bros and b. if you think that kanye would ever strike down a self-involved super-pretentious musician who made a hilariously overwrought and pretentious music video, then i'm not sure you really know who kanye west is
― banaka socka flame (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 September 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure any of us know who Kanye West really is
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a misogynist riddle tweeted by a megalomaniac enigma and smothered in charming autotune
― da croupier, Monday, 13 September 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
It’s okay, life is a tightrope32 and still growing up nowWho you are is not what you didYou’re still an innocentTime turns flames to embersYou’ll have new SeptembersEvery one of us has messed up too...
funny, i heard that as "ambers," not embers, and assumed she was dropping in one more kanye reference just to be cute and clever.
on paper, that song reads awful, like some bad collegiate singer-songwriter crap, but i thought the actual performance was moving.
i also liked how kanye's response, in addition to being, "you think i'm a douchebag? well, yeah, i AM a douchebag, so what?," was also, "you think you know how to sing off-key? well, get a load of this."
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 13 September 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8rrooj2K91qzvg5vo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1284608905&Signature=7VBRBgmS4hcqwqB9rnNWdBWXSkg%3D
― "ill samosa, hoos" "gibreel, big wrink" (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link