The MTV Video Music Awards pre-show goes on-air at 5 p.m. Pacific time, and just for fun, we thought we'd live-blog it -- with comments enabled! -- as a dry-run for possibly live-blogging the Emmy red carpet next Sunday. It might have been a more SUCCESSFUL test if we'd had the idea in time to tell people last week that we'd be doing this, but it's all good -- consider this like a restaurant's soft open, where people who stumble upon it can walk through the doors and have a meal while the staff works out the kinks.
The commenting rules are the usual: No personal attacks (on each other or on us -- for the latter, of course, we invite you to use our handy-dandy e-mail address, but the former tends to ruin the atmosphere around here so please avoid it), keep it free of hate speech and the like; and keep it on topic. Just have fun with it so that everyone can KEEP having fun with it.
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4:59 p.m.: America's Best Dance Crew's end credits are rolling us into the VMA pre-show, so I'm watching a bunch of women in what looks like pirate lingerie shoving their pelvises at each other. That actually seems like the perfect tone to set.
5 p.m.: I didn't realize the VMAs are in New York -- that plus Fashion Week plus the U.S. Open? Busy. But should be good for the celeb turnout. Lady Gaga emerges from her limo in a gold Phantom mask, giant hat, and feathered collar; the whole thing looks so heavy that she can barely turn from side to side. She's practically hoisted to her feet from the car. Pretty soon she's going to start arriving places via an elaborate system of pulleys and wires, a la Bruno, except with less man-sac.
The commenting rules are the usual: No personal attacks (on each other or on us -- for the latter, of course, we invite you to use our handy-dandy e-mail address, but the former tends to ruin the atmosphere around here so please avoid it), keep it free of hate speech and the like; and keep it on topic. Just have fun with it so that everyone can KEEP having fun with it.
All righty, keep refreshing or coming back to get the latest addenda to the post. And 3...2...1...
4:59 p.m.: America's Best Dance Crew's end credits are rolling us into the VMA pre-show, so I'm watching a bunch of women in what looks like pirate lingerie shoving their pelvises at each other. That actually seems like the perfect tone to set.
5 p.m.: I didn't realize the VMAs are in New York -- that plus Fashion Week plus the U.S. Open? Busy. But should be good for the celeb turnout. Lady Gaga emerges from her limo in a gold Phantom mask, giant hat, and feathered collar; the whole thing looks so heavy that she can barely turn from side to side. She's practically hoisted to her feet from the car. Pretty soon she's going to start arriving places via an elaborate system of pulleys and wires, a la Bruno, except with less man-sac.
5:01 p.m.: Wait, Ashley Greene is the fashion correspondent? In that high-waisted red skirt that makes her look like a bloated tomato? Okay... She IS right to encourage attendees to be "out there," though. She coyly says the rest of the Twilight cast is coming. Man, she owes her agent so much more than ten percent for getting her in that movie.
5:02 p.m.: Ashley asks Green Day's members what they're wearing. Good start, kid. I have no idea who this British dude is hosting with Ashley. God, I feel old whenever I watch MTV.
5:03 p.m.: Billy Joe tells a story about seeing Michael Jackson and Lisa-Marie Presley make out at the VMAs years ago. All he can muster up about it is, "It was a trip." That is probably appropriately respectful of the dead.
5:04 p.m.: They cut to a guy backstage, so that he can tell us he doesn't seen any celebrities around right now -- but we do see footage from earlier of singers in tracksuits sneaking into Radio City Music Hall. Because celebs skulking through cement hallways is what REALLY gets us into the awards-show spirit.
5:05 p.m.: Dude, Lady Gaga arrived with KERMIT THE FROG. Does he know she wore Animal as a skirt? Wait... does he know she wore HIM as a shirt?
5:06 p.m.: Shakira talks about her new album -- the upshot: she doesn't want it to suck -- and then is asked to talk about... Lady Gaga. Sigh. She calls Gaga "the Grace Jones of our time." Honey, Grace Jones is the Grace Jones of our time. Recognize. Shakira looks pretty in something sparkly and black, but I want another look at it. I was too busy rolling my eyes at all the Gaga hoo-ha.
5:11 p.m.: Pink arrives via fire truck, with a passel of fighters in tow. She looks great -- her black, glittery, strapless mini fits like a glove. Her hair, though, is kind of one part Billy Idol and one part There's Something About Mary.
5:13 p.m.: Lady Gaga seriously can't move in this stupid outfit. I am so tired of her shtick. Kermit shows up to give her some press credentials and she kisses him. I wish the Muppets weren't being dragged into this. Somewhere on high, Jim Henson is all, "Girl, please. Miss Piggy would karate-chop her ass into next week, and then when next week gets here she'd kick it again."
5:14 p.m.: Gaga isn't British, is she? Because she sounds like she's trying to affect a light British inflection. Don't drag Britain into this either, Gaga. Stop with the dragging.
5:15 p.m.: The band 303 (is that right? God, I AM old) is backstage doing an interview from what looks like a dusty corner of the men's room. Sexy. * Apparently it's 3oh!3. Thank you, sweet readers. There are not enough exclamation points in people's names. I'm changing mine right now to Hea!ther.
5:16 p.m.: Next up is Taylor Lautner from Twilight, talking to his co-star Ashley. He's wearing a suit by CK and he looks pretty adorable. He seems to light up a bit when he talks about Taylor Swift performing. Wouldn't that be kind of creepy if Taylor and Taylor dated? For them, not for us. I feel like it'd be sort of gross to whisper (or scream) your own name as part of your sweet nothings. Unless you are a complete narcissist. I bet Will Smith would love it if Jada changed her name to Will.
5:17 p.m.: Buzz Aldrin gets introduced as the first man to pee on the moon. He rolls with it: "It was a great relief." Then he gets to hold a moonman. I wish he'd make a music video so that he can win one. I want to see him dance. He is presenting "Breakthrough Video" from the red-carpet right now, and can't read the names of the songs or artists fast enough, which is totally awkward. It is seriously taking him like 20 minutes to get through this. Somewhere a producer is banging his or her head against a clipboard. Buzz is growling through this list with gusto. Is Buzz, well, buzzed? "Lessons Learned" by Matt and Kim wins. Buzz Aldrin is all, whatever.
5:21 p.m.: Ashley stiffly introduces a kids' group in a segment that was clearly pre-taped so that they wouldn't be out late -- the sky is a totally different color. The band is called Air Fly and I guess they performed on the VMA red carpet earlier. I have nothing to say. They're kids! They're dancing! Good for them. Ashley Greene is kind of lacking in charisma, though.
5:25 p.m.: There is a white horse and carriage pulling up -- I guess the theme here is dramatic arrivals. This guy claims that only one woman big enough to pull off an arrival in a horse and buggy, and I'm thinking, okay, Mariah? Posh? Fergie? No. It's Taylor Swift. Not that she's not superfamous, but come on, there are plenty of women bigger than she is -- unless perhaps he meant literally, since Taylor is very tall. She's in a long nude-and-silver gleaming one-shoulder Grecian and predictable red lipstick. She looks lovely, but for a different event -- it's too formal.
5:27 p.m.: Taylor says she has no chance of winning against Beyonce and Gaga, but that she's thrilled to be nominated because -- and I am paraphrasing -- country music is so NOT MTV. She's got a point. Apparently Taylor thinks Ashley Greene is the coolest girl ever, and gave her advice on the correspondent thing. I wish Taylor had advised her not to wear that red skirt.
5:28 p.m.: Blah blah Verizon plug blurry cameraphone video blah. If you want to see more of them, go to V-Cast's Web site! But why WOULD you? It was like watching the VMAs through the bottom of a gin bottle, through which you are THEN looking through an empty bottle of tequila.
5:29 p.m.: Diddy! He's in a black tux with white piping. He talks about the Michael Jackson tribute that's planned, and says it's important to keep his legacy alive. It's hard to snark when they're talking about someone who died suddenly. Bring on some fug, please, people.
5:31 p.m.: Now it's Alicia Keys' turn to talk about the MJ tribute. She thought it was a secret. Oh, honey. Of course they're doing a tribute. That would be the least surprising surprise of all time. I'm so glad Alicia Keys has gone more minimalist on her makeup -- she's so pretty and all the glitter and eyelashes were totally swallowing her whole. The dress is black and silver sequins -- a popular color scheme tonight -- and I think she looks nice, although it might be a little hippy on her. It's hard to tell.
5:36 p.m.: Kristin Cavallari is on, in silver glitter. Man, everyone is employing metallics tonight. She looks good, and is about ten times less wooden than Ashley Greene has been so far; they should've asked her to do this, but then again, she's not in Twilight. YET. Maybe someone else will get booted from the cast and she can leap into the fourth movie, just in time for things to get totally cracked out.
5:38 p.m. A New York tour bus pulls up, and Cobra Starship exists. The main guy gives a leery shout-out to Taylor Swift. Thank God she is legal.
5:39 p.m.: The cast of the new Fame gets its moment in the sun. They present a clip of a music video from the movie. The remade song is about as catchy as the original, but a tad Pro Tooled for my taste. Interestingly, as much as they entreat me to remember their names, I can't, because they were never mentioned. But we have time for that; I have it on good authority, after all, that they're going to live forever.
5:44 p.m.: J.Lo! And husband! She has some sort of satin thing strapped to her neck! COME ON, MTV. I don't want to hear Jermaine Jackson talk right now. I need to see what the hell my girl is wearing. Please don't let it disappoint.
5:45 p.m.: Inside, Kim Stolz of ANTM fame -- and now MTV fame, it's true -- is reporting from inside Radio City Music Hall. She's in a gold and brown thing that I can't see, although it could be super cute and could ALSO be a tribute to different mustards. She's talking to FeFe Dobson, wearing a plaid coat. I guess the fans got to pick what they wanted her to wear, and she went in a different direction -- except for her velvet pants. I would love to know what the fans voted for that the only tolerable part was velvet pants.
5:47 p.m.: Wait, WERE Shakira and Pink in the same dress? MTV is talking like they are. I remember thinking they looked very similar, but I didn't get to see enough of Shakira's -- I thought it had straps. Sigh. I am a bad fashion blogger. Without the luxury of staring at photo upon photo I am apparently lost. Live-blogging: Not for the faint of eyesight.
5:51 p.m. Wow, Ashley Greene won the Jennifer Lopez interview, and those crisscrosses around her neck aren't a cape. They connect to her SLEEVES. But ONLY her sleeves. I freaking love this woman. J.Lo tells us all she enjoys sexy, edgy, feminine clothes, which knocks all of our socks off because obviously we never would've figured that out on our own. And she pimps a new album, but all I can look at are her hypnotic sleeves. Seriously, it's like she's wearing a sleeve harness.
5:52 p.m.: I caught a glimpse of Amber Rose, and it looks like she's wearing something AWFULLY similar to the Christian Siriano catsuit that just came down the runway, and about which Jessica JUST wrote, "You know someone is going to wear that out." Jess is psychic. Or at least, psychic about catsuits. It's a niche superpower.
5:55 p.m.: The Brit says everyone is looking at Beyonce, and literally runs over to her. She's in something short and red with a plunging neckline and ruffles, and I'm just so happy she's not in a strapless corseted ballgown that I can't even process the rest. This dude is hell-bent on getting Beyonce -- and everyone -- to talk about how much they love Lady Gaga. Does this mean she's winning everything tonight? Seriously, I don't care what Beyonce thinks about Lady Gaga. I want to know what Beyonce thinks about her sister's shaved head. Ask the TOUGH questions, dude.
5:56 p.m.: Ashley chats to Leighton Meester, who is in -- SHOCKER -- a metallic dress. It's so fetching -- much better than the thing from which her ass hung out at the last MTV awards. There is a lot of gushing from them, and then Ashley pimps the New Moon clip and gets Leighton to act like she cares. "She's a good girl," Leighton says, with very little enthusiasm. Aw.
5:57 p.m.: Another live award: Best Video That Should Have Won A Moonman, or as I like to call it, the Whoops Award. It goes to "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys. I'm sure they're thrilled. The camera pans around to random screaming fans, apparently without any good celeb clothes to spotlight.
5:58 p.m.: The show is winding down -- this host insists that big celebs are still arriving, but the carpet seems empty and the cameras can't seem to find any good cutaways, so they stick with the dude in the Moonman suit. Maybe that's the new black. You heard it here first.
6 p.m. And we're out. Man, the Emmy and Oscar and Golden Globes shows are way more fun. Join us next week when we'll do it up E!-style for the Emmy Awards red carpet. Although this really severe, depressing monologue from Madonna about Michael Jackson -- which is managing to be as much about HER as she can make it -- has me wishing I was able to stick around and live-blog the entire show. Maybe next year. G'night, all!
6:01 p.m.: Okay, Madonna's thing got a bit less self-centered, but her face is NOT MOVING. ... and now I really am leaving.
5:02 p.m.: Ashley asks Green Day's members what they're wearing. Good start, kid. I have no idea who this British dude is hosting with Ashley. God, I feel old whenever I watch MTV.
5:03 p.m.: Billy Joe tells a story about seeing Michael Jackson and Lisa-Marie Presley make out at the VMAs years ago. All he can muster up about it is, "It was a trip." That is probably appropriately respectful of the dead.
5:04 p.m.: They cut to a guy backstage, so that he can tell us he doesn't seen any celebrities around right now -- but we do see footage from earlier of singers in tracksuits sneaking into Radio City Music Hall. Because celebs skulking through cement hallways is what REALLY gets us into the awards-show spirit.
5:05 p.m.: Dude, Lady Gaga arrived with KERMIT THE FROG. Does he know she wore Animal as a skirt? Wait... does he know she wore HIM as a shirt?
5:06 p.m.: Shakira talks about her new album -- the upshot: she doesn't want it to suck -- and then is asked to talk about... Lady Gaga. Sigh. She calls Gaga "the Grace Jones of our time." Honey, Grace Jones is the Grace Jones of our time. Recognize. Shakira looks pretty in something sparkly and black, but I want another look at it. I was too busy rolling my eyes at all the Gaga hoo-ha.
5:11 p.m.: Pink arrives via fire truck, with a passel of fighters in tow. She looks great -- her black, glittery, strapless mini fits like a glove. Her hair, though, is kind of one part Billy Idol and one part There's Something About Mary.
5:13 p.m.: Lady Gaga seriously can't move in this stupid outfit. I am so tired of her shtick. Kermit shows up to give her some press credentials and she kisses him. I wish the Muppets weren't being dragged into this. Somewhere on high, Jim Henson is all, "Girl, please. Miss Piggy would karate-chop her ass into next week, and then when next week gets here she'd kick it again."
5:14 p.m.: Gaga isn't British, is she? Because she sounds like she's trying to affect a light British inflection. Don't drag Britain into this either, Gaga. Stop with the dragging.
5:15 p.m.: The band 303 (is that right? God, I AM old) is backstage doing an interview from what looks like a dusty corner of the men's room. Sexy. * Apparently it's 3oh!3. Thank you, sweet readers. There are not enough exclamation points in people's names. I'm changing mine right now to Hea!ther.
5:16 p.m.: Next up is Taylor Lautner from Twilight, talking to his co-star Ashley. He's wearing a suit by CK and he looks pretty adorable. He seems to light up a bit when he talks about Taylor Swift performing. Wouldn't that be kind of creepy if Taylor and Taylor dated? For them, not for us. I feel like it'd be sort of gross to whisper (or scream) your own name as part of your sweet nothings. Unless you are a complete narcissist. I bet Will Smith would love it if Jada changed her name to Will.
5:17 p.m.: Buzz Aldrin gets introduced as the first man to pee on the moon. He rolls with it: "It was a great relief." Then he gets to hold a moonman. I wish he'd make a music video so that he can win one. I want to see him dance. He is presenting "Breakthrough Video" from the red-carpet right now, and can't read the names of the songs or artists fast enough, which is totally awkward. It is seriously taking him like 20 minutes to get through this. Somewhere a producer is banging his or her head against a clipboard. Buzz is growling through this list with gusto. Is Buzz, well, buzzed? "Lessons Learned" by Matt and Kim wins. Buzz Aldrin is all, whatever.
5:21 p.m.: Ashley stiffly introduces a kids' group in a segment that was clearly pre-taped so that they wouldn't be out late -- the sky is a totally different color. The band is called Air Fly and I guess they performed on the VMA red carpet earlier. I have nothing to say. They're kids! They're dancing! Good for them. Ashley Greene is kind of lacking in charisma, though.
5:25 p.m.: There is a white horse and carriage pulling up -- I guess the theme here is dramatic arrivals. This guy claims that only one woman big enough to pull off an arrival in a horse and buggy, and I'm thinking, okay, Mariah? Posh? Fergie? No. It's Taylor Swift. Not that she's not superfamous, but come on, there are plenty of women bigger than she is -- unless perhaps he meant literally, since Taylor is very tall. She's in a long nude-and-silver gleaming one-shoulder Grecian and predictable red lipstick. She looks lovely, but for a different event -- it's too formal.
5:27 p.m.: Taylor says she has no chance of winning against Beyonce and Gaga, but that she's thrilled to be nominated because -- and I am paraphrasing -- country music is so NOT MTV. She's got a point. Apparently Taylor thinks Ashley Greene is the coolest girl ever, and gave her advice on the correspondent thing. I wish Taylor had advised her not to wear that red skirt.
5:28 p.m.: Blah blah Verizon plug blurry cameraphone video blah. If you want to see more of them, go to V-Cast's Web site! But why WOULD you? It was like watching the VMAs through the bottom of a gin bottle, through which you are THEN looking through an empty bottle of tequila.
5:29 p.m.: Diddy! He's in a black tux with white piping. He talks about the Michael Jackson tribute that's planned, and says it's important to keep his legacy alive. It's hard to snark when they're talking about someone who died suddenly. Bring on some fug, please, people.
5:31 p.m.: Now it's Alicia Keys' turn to talk about the MJ tribute. She thought it was a secret. Oh, honey. Of course they're doing a tribute. That would be the least surprising surprise of all time. I'm so glad Alicia Keys has gone more minimalist on her makeup -- she's so pretty and all the glitter and eyelashes were totally swallowing her whole. The dress is black and silver sequins -- a popular color scheme tonight -- and I think she looks nice, although it might be a little hippy on her. It's hard to tell.
5:36 p.m.: Kristin Cavallari is on, in silver glitter. Man, everyone is employing metallics tonight. She looks good, and is about ten times less wooden than Ashley Greene has been so far; they should've asked her to do this, but then again, she's not in Twilight. YET. Maybe someone else will get booted from the cast and she can leap into the fourth movie, just in time for things to get totally cracked out.
5:38 p.m. A New York tour bus pulls up, and Cobra Starship exists. The main guy gives a leery shout-out to Taylor Swift. Thank God she is legal.
5:39 p.m.: The cast of the new Fame gets its moment in the sun. They present a clip of a music video from the movie. The remade song is about as catchy as the original, but a tad Pro Tooled for my taste. Interestingly, as much as they entreat me to remember their names, I can't, because they were never mentioned. But we have time for that; I have it on good authority, after all, that they're going to live forever.
5:44 p.m.: J.Lo! And husband! She has some sort of satin thing strapped to her neck! COME ON, MTV. I don't want to hear Jermaine Jackson talk right now. I need to see what the hell my girl is wearing. Please don't let it disappoint.
5:45 p.m.: Inside, Kim Stolz of ANTM fame -- and now MTV fame, it's true -- is reporting from inside Radio City Music Hall. She's in a gold and brown thing that I can't see, although it could be super cute and could ALSO be a tribute to different mustards. She's talking to FeFe Dobson, wearing a plaid coat. I guess the fans got to pick what they wanted her to wear, and she went in a different direction -- except for her velvet pants. I would love to know what the fans voted for that the only tolerable part was velvet pants.
5:47 p.m.: Wait, WERE Shakira and Pink in the same dress? MTV is talking like they are. I remember thinking they looked very similar, but I didn't get to see enough of Shakira's -- I thought it had straps. Sigh. I am a bad fashion blogger. Without the luxury of staring at photo upon photo I am apparently lost. Live-blogging: Not for the faint of eyesight.
5:51 p.m. Wow, Ashley Greene won the Jennifer Lopez interview, and those crisscrosses around her neck aren't a cape. They connect to her SLEEVES. But ONLY her sleeves. I freaking love this woman. J.Lo tells us all she enjoys sexy, edgy, feminine clothes, which knocks all of our socks off because obviously we never would've figured that out on our own. And she pimps a new album, but all I can look at are her hypnotic sleeves. Seriously, it's like she's wearing a sleeve harness.
5:52 p.m.: I caught a glimpse of Amber Rose, and it looks like she's wearing something AWFULLY similar to the Christian Siriano catsuit that just came down the runway, and about which Jessica JUST wrote, "You know someone is going to wear that out." Jess is psychic. Or at least, psychic about catsuits. It's a niche superpower.
5:55 p.m.: The Brit says everyone is looking at Beyonce, and literally runs over to her. She's in something short and red with a plunging neckline and ruffles, and I'm just so happy she's not in a strapless corseted ballgown that I can't even process the rest. This dude is hell-bent on getting Beyonce -- and everyone -- to talk about how much they love Lady Gaga. Does this mean she's winning everything tonight? Seriously, I don't care what Beyonce thinks about Lady Gaga. I want to know what Beyonce thinks about her sister's shaved head. Ask the TOUGH questions, dude.
5:56 p.m.: Ashley chats to Leighton Meester, who is in -- SHOCKER -- a metallic dress. It's so fetching -- much better than the thing from which her ass hung out at the last MTV awards. There is a lot of gushing from them, and then Ashley pimps the New Moon clip and gets Leighton to act like she cares. "She's a good girl," Leighton says, with very little enthusiasm. Aw.
5:57 p.m.: Another live award: Best Video That Should Have Won A Moonman, or as I like to call it, the Whoops Award. It goes to "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys. I'm sure they're thrilled. The camera pans around to random screaming fans, apparently without any good celeb clothes to spotlight.
5:58 p.m.: The show is winding down -- this host insists that big celebs are still arriving, but the carpet seems empty and the cameras can't seem to find any good cutaways, so they stick with the dude in the Moonman suit. Maybe that's the new black. You heard it here first.
6 p.m. And we're out. Man, the Emmy and Oscar and Golden Globes shows are way more fun. Join us next week when we'll do it up E!-style for the Emmy Awards red carpet. Although this really severe, depressing monologue from Madonna about Michael Jackson -- which is managing to be as much about HER as she can make it -- has me wishing I was able to stick around and live-blog the entire show. Maybe next year. G'night, all!
6:01 p.m.: Okay, Madonna's thing got a bit less self-centered, but her face is NOT MOVING. ... and now I really am leaving.
YAY.
Looking forward to it!
So excited!!
i like Lady Gaga's neckbrace
And still more of the The Blonds for Katy. I get why she would be so obsessed with the relatively kitschy labe, but I don't get why she doesn't at least try to incorporate cleaner elements. She would look a bit more serious and her looks more wearable if she'd try.
lady gaga looks like a bird. ridiculous doesn't even begin to describe it.
The Pratt chick's face makes me die a little inside. Plasticine nightmare.
I am scared of Lady Gaga. I think she's going for The Phantom of The Opera.
I haven't decided whether I get Ashley's look or if I hate it. But I think she stole the wig from KStew in Eclipse.
Wow, Shakira looks nice!
oh shakira.. i can't even mock you because i love you so much.. why the straight/dry hair though?!
Shakira's dress is great, but what's with the guy wearing the giant black sock on his head?
Rose Byrne's dress is cute but she needs more make up! And Katy Perry looks like she's starring on "TinkerBell On Ice"...
More of the rope detailing for Beyonce's sister. Who made that dress? Didn't Lady GaGa wear a very similar piece last month? McQueen was it? She's wearing pointy platforms that honestly look like they were patented by a transexual elf.
She does look like a tomato...
Shakira really thinks that Lady Gaga is the Grace Jones of our time? I find that hard to believe.
Please tell me that is not a celebrity arriving in a fire truck. Oh please, MTV.
Pink and Shakira in the same dress?
NO WAY! Pink is wearing the same dress as Shakira?! Say it ain't so! Or say it is so!
Pink is wearing the same dress as Shakira ?!
Wait: is there a uniform? Why is Pink wearing the same dress as Shakira?
ha, a real-time 'who wore it better'
i vote Pink.. so over the huge boots w/ short dress thing.
I love you RPattz and KStew but if you decide to wear plaid and sneakers, I might need to punch a small child.
You know Buzz Aldrin just showed because one of his great-grandchildren talked him into it. Not painful at all...
are they really making buzz aldrin read all these?? he's such a cute man.
p.s. the cutest man, with the shortest tie ever.
definitely a favor to a grandkid.
Gaga is not at all british, we take no responsibility for her.
A twin sighting? NO WAY! The live feed I'm watching is pretty much a still picture and unintelligible audio.
For the record, Heather, it's 3oh!3
And no, I don't know who they are either.
The pre-show and show will not be broadcast until in like 2 hours here in Costa Rica... But I'm having fun reading your liveblog! Please do it for the Emmys!
Did Taylor Swift show up w/ Adam Lambert? It looked like he was in the crystal pumpkin.
I love Taylor Swift and I am willing to forgive her for arriving in the tackiest horse carriage ensemble ever. Not that horse carriages aren't tacky to begin with.
i like taylor swift's dress, but it seems a little old for her and kind of stuffy for the VMAs.. she could have had more fun with this ensemble, no?
Alicia Keys gorgeous.
Alicia Keys dress is making me dizzy. Or is it sleepy? Very very sleepy...
seriously, who are these children on the red carpet?? i am so old.
You guys are making the VMAs so much more watchable. YAY!
I was confused by the combination of that Justin Bieber and Diddy with his wingladies. Who would think that made sense? Sartorially or otherwise?
Taylor Swift's shrink-wrapped princess carriage was very "My Super Sweet Sixteen".
Okay, call me crazy but I not only like Lady GaGa's look but think it's totally refined. She is a tad overdressed, though. It looks like something she should wear if she were ever invited to do something completely irrelevant for the Oscars like 80% of last year's attendees, but it's believable and stylish. And this live feed is making me loathe sequined mini dresses. ENOUGH.
Alicia Keys looks MUCH better than her usual. That dress is damn near flattering.
Kristen Cavallari's slurry drawly voice makes me want to stab myself in the eardrums.
ugh, the hills, get out of my face!! so boring.
I kind of love lady gaga
YES! FAME VIDEO!! I love Kerrington from SYTYCD!
the remake of FAME is an abomination.
Agree with Venus in Spurs. I am getting an overdose of mini sequined dresses. #Barf
Okay, the Fame song is reminding me of another song, and NO, it's not the original Fame song.
don't worry, that British man with ashley greene is not important. but it's 3oh!3, not 303. so you're half as old as you feel
Still wanna go see "Fame" despite their American-Idol-Ensemble-Sponsored-Performance looking music video.
What the hell is J.Lo doing there? Isn't she above the VMAs? Can't believe I just wrote that.
ummm, Kim? What is that thing? Very PTA Awards night.
Didn't know Fefe Dobson still existed but I like her outfit.
did they seriously have a line graph calculating the moment the Tweeters realized that Shakira and Pink were wearing the same dress?
Okay, I just saw a pic of Pink's dress and I'm no surprised that someone else wore the exact dress -- It's Balmain!! Why would anyone choose from what is now an almost ubiquitous brand? And the VMAs is like the most Balmain-appropriate event ever? People would almost select them subconsciously it's so fitting.
Why do they even have a fashion correspondant? They aren't talking to her at all. This is silly. J.Lo looks TERRIBLE
JLo's arm sacks are very unfortunate.
Crookede-
yeah, their twitter thing is out of control. "omg you guys, I didn't know they were wearing the same dress, then this is the EXACT moment you all said it!!" i want more red carpet time, twitter girl!
Oh, J-Lo. Is that She-Ra?
Ashely Greene thinks she looks amazing. Well, next to Ashley, even Lady gaga looks amazing.
Oh J.LO honey no what is on your arms?
Who was that crazy man in the brown jacket, and what did he take?
Beyonce's eleventh hour arrival is so cliche. And really for a frilly mini with plunging neckline? lol
i hope they get an on-camera interview w/ joe jackson. i bet he has some sweet dvds to sell/drawn on eyebrows.
oh my god...this is the best surprise...I was just turning on the internets in the hope of someone to commisserate with about Those Kids Today when I saw...yay Fug girls! You've echoed my every eye roll! A-hem...now what is with J Lo's neck sleeves?
You're not the only one who feels old watching MTV ;) I'm in my 20s, and have never once heard a song by Fallout Boy, let alone 303...or whatever phonebook prefix this group calls themselves.
It's a right of passage, though. Most of us enter college and largely forget mtv exists.
Beyonce's dress is gorgeous, but her hair looks a little sad.
Who told Beyonce that is a dress? It is clearly a shirt.
So is Sway to the new gen what Kurt Loder was to ours? (Or is he today's Grace Jones? No wait...that slot's been filled apparently)
I'm turning 26 in two weeks and still love/love to hate MTV.. sad? yeah.. but entertaining... also yeah.
at least Beyonce wasn't in sparkles!
MADGE!
Shakira and Pink goofed around for cameras together. They could care less. Which means -- and perhaps unfortunately for us -- they somehow care even less about fashion.
dude, love the live blog....can't wait till the emmys.
Was I the only one who thought Madonna was Hilary Duff at first?
Saw a pic of Lo Bosworth from the red carpet and asked my boyfriend how old he thought she was and he she looks 38. She is doing herself a HUGE injustice with her make-up/hair/dress.
so, michael jackson tribute.. to katy perry and her ill-fitting spandex? sad.
Actually I thought Madonna was Alicia Silverstone for a second...weird.
Also, go away Katy Perry. Please.
WOW, is Kanye West a GINORMOUS JACKASS or what? I don't personally care for Taylor Swift's music, but wow, poor girl. That was beyond humiliating.
what did he say i missed it
FYI: Buzz Aldrin is a recovering alcoholic, I sincerely doubt he was buzzed.
dude pink and shakira are totally wearing the same dress. pink def wore it better though
VMA prediction: Nelly Furtado's beaded shawl will catch on her oversized earrings, ripping her lobe, and possibly a few beads out, which will fall on the floor and cause a slip n' crotch-reveal by one of the next three presenters. Megan Fox? She looks like a penguin-prostitute in that outfit. No pretty face in the world could excuse that crap MF.
Wow, Megan Fox's outfit couldn't be any more boring. Why the weird hip poofy action...?!?!
I'm on the West Coast, dang it. ABDC just started for me. Bleh.
Ha.. the phrase "penguin prostitute" is my new favorite thing. But yeah, that dress was AWFUL.
@Kate -- Blushing! / Anyone notice the commercials have the exact same production value as the production, and maybe fewer logos?
Beyonce - what are you thinking?
Kanye West is never pretty. YAAAAAY T Swizy
Beyonce's roboglove needs a propofol-ativan-tini. (Why won't it die?)
Shockingly, K-Stew was looking quite bearable tonight. I liked her dress and I think her hair was clean.
Lady Gaga... wow, just wow. Her final outfit. I know most disagree but I think she is hilarious and I love the crazy stuff she wears.
Sometimes I will burst out laughing in the middle of the day because I remember the Kermit sat at a jaunty angle on top of her head lololooolo see it just happened.
Wow. Apparently I am not up on my obscure trivia about astronauts. Sorry, Buzz!
Heather, 3oh!3 are an obnoxious band who just rereleased one of their songs, "Starstrukk" as a single with Katy Perry (or are about to be released). Most of their songs are about girls and partying, you're not missing out on much. They were nominated for Best New Artist.
And sadly, I'm not surprised that the guy from Cobra Starship, Gabe, said that about Taylor Swift, he can be so creepy, lol.
Pink looked way better than Shakira. Check out Pinks Twitter page. She gives Kanye a jolly good thumbs down re the whole Taylor Swift incident
good
what are you thinking?
So, my final analysis after viewing all the looks? Whitney Port's Christopher Kane skirt and the transparent gown lost somewhere in the fugue of GaGa's ensemble were the better pieces of the night. I didn't mind JLO's LV look -- it was actually quite flattering. And, though we've seen Balmain ad nauseam at this point, I thought Shakira's/Pink's Balmain mini was the best in that vein (body conscious, short -- everybody went with this theme). The rest were boring to horrible.
Love the live blog and all the comments. I also thought Lo Bosworth looked waaaay old... like, a whole generation older than she is!
This was almost as good as being there in person. I can't wait until next time. How 'bout at the Emmy's red carpet?
I wish you would have been live blogging during Pink's circus performance with the one-pasty, asymmetrical (was that a jumpsuit) top! I was too speechless to snark about it then. In retrospect, I feel like Pink (who yes, wore that dress better, strangely) should have to pay the FCC a fine to wear that heart-pasty on a major broadcast just to be fair to Janet / the NFL.
Wait a minute... Gaga looks almost scared in that picture of her in the black harness dress... WHO HAS THE NERVE TO SCARE OUR GAGA!!!???
Whoever you are, you are in for it!
Do you think maybe Lady Gaga just had a really bad zit? So she decided to cover it up by wearing masks and that horrible red lace thing? Because when I'm broken out, I kind of want to wrap my head in fabric....
Hey guys! This was fun -- we'll definitely do it for the Emmys on Sunday. I'm closing comments on this post but will hopefully see you all next week.