According to Page Six, not only was the afterparty for Sunday night's American Music Awards in the parking lot of Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre, the door was being policed by someone who apparently hadn't done their TRL homework. Or maybe she didn't recognize Chris Brown out of Tron mode?
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Or, in the case of this guy, you just have to have your Sunday night open. Anyway, welcome to Idolator's second liveblog of the American Music Awards, the Dick Clark-helmed celebration of musical "favorites" that inspired this site's first live blog almost exactly one year ago. Back then, I was cranky about Rascal Flatts and Nicole Scherzinger's Pussycat Dolls and Jimmy Kimmel, all of whom are back to make my zingers flow once again. (I actually read an AMA preview that used as its hook the fact that the AMAs are Kimmel's first post-writers'-strike TV appearance, which should tell you about the caliber of talent on tonight's show.) After the jump, we find out just which musicians will inspire the people of America to get clicking on a Web site.
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Just a reminder: Idolator will be live-blogging the American Music Awards this Sunday night starting at 8 p.m. EST. That's only two days from now! Barely enough time to prepare for all the Daughtry. Like you needed to see that new episode of The Amazing Race anyway. Maura will be at the keyboard, the rest of Idolator (which is me and possibly Kate) will be riding shotgun/backseat driving on the couch (or whatever plastic milkcrate setup she's got in her new apartment), and America will be the ones deciding whether Carrie Underwood is really better than Taylor Swift. Also, if you watch this video clip closely, you can actually see Kate and Maura hard at work live-blogging at the mtvU Woodie Awards.
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This Sunday, the American Music Awards—the annual popularity contest where being the "best" in music isn't as important as being the American public's "favorite"—are back, and ready to show the people just who's important in music right now. Like Nicole Scherzinger, whose album won't be out for another three months because no one in America has been willing to pay attention to her non-Pussycat Dolls-branded recorded output so far, and will.i.am, who, we hope, will unveil "the fuckin' shits on the radio" that may save his oh-so-floppy Songs About Girls. But wait, there's more!
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Nominees for this year's American Music Awards—the annual Dick Clark-produced awards ceremony where the idea of the "best" is thrown out the window—were announced today, and Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Linkin Park, and Daughtry led the field of nominees with four each. This year's AMAs will be even more subject to the sway of street teams and crazed computer-attached teenagers, as voting has shifted from a poll of 20,000 music buyers to an online survey (presumably tracking down 20,000 people who actually buy music and know of all the nominated artists and albums, which span categories including contemporary inspirational, soundtracks, and the still-kicking "alternative," proved too difficult of a task for the production company).
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"Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will return for the fourth time as host of the American Music Awards, which will be broadcast live November 18 on ABC." OK, if this winds up being a way to somehow shoehorn Tay Zonday and/or Chris Crocker into the show, I officially give up on liveblogging anything ever again. [Reuters; photo via AP]
When Chuck D asked "How low can you go?" in "Bring the Noise," this probably isn't what he had in mind.
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Don't forget that Idolator will enter its first live-blogging experience at 8 p.m. ET, when we'll train our gaze on the annual favorite-fest that is the American Music Awards. We're preparing for the event by listening to lots of High School Musical—our pick for Favorite Pop/Rock Album, thanks to its opponents being Nickelback and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In the meantime, feel free to use the comments section of this post to dream up some bon mots for us. Will we give Spice Girls-like names to the Pussycat Dolls? Or will we get to pull out the old "Chamillionaire looks chamiserable" chestnut when the young lady seated behind him lets her Grey Goose loose?
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- Owen Pallett (left), the man behind twee outfit Final Fantasy, wins the inaugural Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds; copyeditors all over Canada cringe. [Gigwise]
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