MTV 2009 VMA's

The MTV Video Music Awards was a fascinating night. It contained mind-blowing live performances by so many artists of different genres. Muse, Green Day, Katy Perry, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Pink, and many more music artists had a share in the limelight. I was especially amazed by Lady gaga's performance. I am the kind of person who normally does not enjoy listening to pop music because of new-age technology that has altered so many the musical artists' natural voices. So many pop stars (who's names I will not mention) probabaly don't even sing that well live becuase they have resorted to bizzare dances and lip-syncing. I was amazed at Lady gaga's natural voice. I heard the song paparazzi on the radio and her voice sounded completely different (fake) compared to what it sounded like live. To be honest, I think that she is a great singer with a powerful unmodified voice. The other thing that I really liked about her performance was when she started bleeding and scared the audience. If I was wrong about Lady gaga, then I feel ashamed about saying that pop music is full of a bunch of lip-syncing dance freaks.

The other reason why I brought up the Video Music Awards was because of the little dramatic incident involving Kanye West and Taylor Swift. The way he acted was pretty disrespectul. I was sort of suprised because he just marched onstage and said what he said. It sounded a little bit like a cheesy joke, so I thought it was something that MTV had put him up to, but I guess it wasn't. Everyone took the joke/comment he made the wrong way and got really pissed off at him. Taylor Swift looked pretty hurt after Kanye implied how Beyonce should have won. I didn't get to hear Kanye's side of the story until today. My mom told me that Kanye apologized on Jay Leno. She told me that Jay asked Kanye, "How would your mother feel if she saw what you did?" Kanye broke into tears and said that the reason the incident happened was because of his mother's death. He still hasn't gotten over it and tries to block out the pain with drinking. While I was watching the award show, my mom pointed out that he did in fact have an alcoholic beverage of some sort. Hopefully, this won't happen again.