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