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Wow!!! I can’t believe last night after watching tons of Football games that I almost forgot that the MTV Music Awards were on. If it wasn’t for 100’s of my friends writing on Facebook about how Kayne West decided to be rude when 19year old Country Singer, Taylor Swift was winning her award. I would have totally kept on watching Football and forgot to plug into the awards. Once I turned on the awards, I actually couldn’t turn it off. I’ll be honest. I think the awards really never tell what’s going on with music. It’s always the same 10 people that win each award. When there are thousands of talented musicians that will never receive a moon man, or even get invited to this event. Including the Artist, Beastie Boys who was nominated for “Best Video”. They just performed at Rams Head Live 3 months ago and one of the most talented groups there is.

Let’s start with the opening of the show, Madonna. She wanted to tell the world how she knew and respected the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Madonna said,” Michael Jackson was born in August 1958”. “So was I. Michael Jackson grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. So did I. Michael Jackson had eight brothers and sisters. So do I. When Michael Jackson was 6 he became a superstar and was perhaps the world’s most beloved child. When I was 6 my mother died. I think he got the shorter end of the stick.”

She went on to also talk about how one day she called Michael and said,” Will you go to dinner with me?” Michael and she went to dinner. And, after went back to her house to eat popcorn and watch old movies. She said,” I think this was a time for Michael to feel like an adult and not think about his past”.

After the speech, MTV showed old videos of Michael Jackson. His sister Janet Jackson came to the stage to dance along with a projection of MJ as their duet “Scream”. It was a moment where everyone remembered how amazing Michael Jackson is.

Through out the evening there were so many amazing performances from Beyonce, Green Day, Katie and Joe Perry, Pink, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Muse and another Artist that has played before at Rams Head Live, Jay-Z.My favorite performance was Green Day. A punk rock band from California. Billie Joe Armstrong knows how to control the crowd. Towards the end of their song, Billie told everyone to get on stage with him. The crowd picked up Billie so he could crowd surf while playing the last few chords to ‘East Jesus Nowhere’.

The performance was great, but I think everyone else has another topic they remembered most from the evening. Country singer Taylor Swift won the “Best Female Video”. She just started to begin her speech when Kayne West came on stage and told everyone that he thinks that Beyonce has the “Best Videos of all time!”. Everyone, including Beyonce was looking around like” THAT JUST DIDN’T REALLY HAPPEN”. Taylor was so shocked she didn’t even finish her speech. Towards the end of the awards when Beyonce did win, ‘Video of the year’. She told everyone that when she was 16 and won her first award, that was something special. She wanted Taylor to have the same feeling and respect she did. So, she called Taylor back on stage to have her ‘real’ moment with her fans.

 Rapper Jay-Z showed up to the award about 2 minutes before he performed. He got out of the limo, walked his way to the stage and closed these MTV awards with Alicia
Keys by singing,’ Ode to New York’. I think the MTV awards were worth watching.  If you missed it, I’m sure MTV will be showing it again.

 Awards:

Video of the Year: Beyonce,  Best New Artist : Lady Gaga, Best Hip-Hop Video: Eminem, Best Male Video: T.I./Rihanna, Best Pop Video: Brittany Spears, Best Rock Video: Green Day, Best Female Video: Taylor Swift ,Best Video (That should have won a moon man) Beastie Boys, Best Breakthrough Video: Matt and Kim, Best Art Direction: Lady Gaga, Best Choreography: Beyonce, Best Cinematography: Green Day, Best Direction: Green Day , Best Editing: Beyonce, Best Special Effects: Lady Gaga