Above, a preview of a promo for this week’s Saturday Night Live, which will feature Taylor Swift performing and hosting. Why do I have a feeling that Swift’s eye-rolling at Bill Hader’s insistence on making a Kanye joke doesn’t necessarily mean that there won’t be three or four or 10 references to the notorious Video Music Awards incident during the 90 minutes of this week’s program? Oh right, because of SNL’s writing staff, which never met a joke it couldn’t bludgeon to death. [MTV] MORE »
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Making A Joke About The Stale Nature Of Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes Is The New Making Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes
the nimbus of her fame
Taylor Swift Is Sick Of Talking About The Video Music Awards, But Lil Mama Sure Isn’t
Unsurprisingly, the news cycle of Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift at the 2009 Video Music Awards stretched into a second week, with some morning-radio DJ pressing and pressing the issue during an interview with Swift while she primly asked him to please talk about something, anything else. He, being of the clueless mook ilk, refused, so finally, instead of letting him finish—during which the DJ was apparently going to ask Swift for a psychological evaluation of the design-conscious MC—she basically handed the phone to her publicist and said “you deal with him, because I sure don’t want to anymore.” This is the same young lady who everyone felt needed rescuing a scant eight days ago? Seems like she has at least some moxie. Clip after the jump. MORE »
The nimbus of his fame
50 Cent Tries To Play The Part Of “The Sensitive One”
The Kanye West/Taylor Swift/Beyonce kerfuffle from Sunday night’s Video Music Awards is theratening to take over the entire work week, with the outspoken MC yesterday calling the blonde country singer to apologize after she appeared on the morning yakfest The View and people still looking for the damn thing on YouTube. (All this post-publicity, it should be said, isn’t really helping dampen my cynicism about the whole thing.) Who better to bring up the rear on a big old manufactured media event than 50 “Curtis Jackson” Cent, who in flusher times two years ago tried to hold his own against Kanye sales-wise and failed—and who yesterday appeared on Canadian music channel MuchMusic to defend Swift’s honor? MORE »
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MTV Host Gives MTV News “Exclusive” Scoop On Her Actions At MTV Video Music Awards
Meanwhile, the post-Video Music Awards mea culpas continued with pint-sized MC Lil Mama’s statement on her joining Jay-Z and Alicia Keys onstage at the end of Sunday night’s show, which honestly might have been more notable for how many people said “really? huh, I missed that” in its aftermath than for anything that actually happened. “I did not mean any disrespect towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys,” she said in a statement released to MTV. (Who, by the way, employ her as host of their dance-off show America’s Best Dance Crew.) “I admire them and look up to them as role models. ‘Empire State of Mind’ had my emotions running high. In that moment I came up onstage to celebrate my two icons singing about NY.” Somehow, she didn’t manage to mention that her latest song—which leaked, OMG, yesterday!—is out. And funnily enough for someone who tried to engage in a little spotlight-stealing, it’s called “See Me Everywhere”! I mean, what are the odds? MORE »
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Kanye West Is Still Sorry
Schticky talk-show host Jay Leno may be not so into having musicians as regular guests on his primetime-killing program, which premiered last night. But as it turned out, booking musicians for the opening installment of his new show proved lucky, as one of the people scheduled to perform was none other than Kanye West, whose outburst at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards was still burning up the Internet when he stopped by Jay’s studio yesterday. So he took some time out to apologize to the public yet again, and this time he even got a “what would your mother think?” upbraiding by the late-night king himself. MORE »
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Kanye West: “I’M IN THE WRONG”
While Taylor Swift was in the press room talking about Kanye West running in and interrupting her acceptance speech, Kanye was updating his blog (perhaps because he’d been kicked out of the show shortly after the whole thing went down?) and he had this to say: MORE »
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2009 Video Music Awards Winners
The complete list of winners at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards, held at Radio City Music Hall in New York: MORE »
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Idolator Live-Blogs The 2009 Video Music Awards: Pop Goes The Post-Pop World
Welcome to Idolator’s third annual liveblog of MTV’s Video Music Awards, an annual tribute to the televisual representation of pop music that inspires waxing poetic about The Old Days and generalized bitching about the state of the channel’s programming alongside the occasional water-cooler-worthy music-related moment. Tonight we come to you from the basement of Radio City Music Hall, which was the venue for the inaugural occasion of Moonman-bestowing—hosted by Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd, in case you want to think about how far we’ve come— and which will, tonight, play host to performances by the likes of Jay-Z, Lady GaGa, Beyoncé, Pink, Taylor Swift (pictured), and Green Day, as well as a show-opening tribute to the late Michael Jackson undertaken by his younger sister Janet. Will I be able to handle this task while not on a couch? Find out after the jump! MORE »
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A Reminder About Tonight’s Video Music Awards Liveblog: The Blog Will Be Coming From Inside The House
Just a reminder that tonight I’ll be live-blogging this year’s MTV Video Music Awards beginning at 8 p.m. ET, and in what I guess is an upgrade from my normal live-blogging stations on various couches around the country, tonight’s transmissions will be coming to you live from the awards’ “media compound” on-site in New York City. And in what is either someone playing a joke on the Internet or a last-ditch effort to drum up some buzz for the telecast, a “winners list” that’s heavy on the GaGa leaked yesterday. It’s naturally been discounted by the network’s house organ, but it’ll sure be useful as a cheat sheet for tonight! Check it out after the jump. MORE »
putting the pseudo in pseudo-event
MTV’s Booking People Will Not Let You Forget About Jennifer Lopez
In addition to letting slip that Jay-Z and Alicia Keys would grace this year’s Video Music Awards with a performance of their collaboration “Empire State of Mind,” MTV has announced more additions to its roster of presenters for Sunday night’s broadcast; among them are Canadian cutie Justin Bieber, Shakira, Pete Wentz, Gabe Saporta, Jack Black, and… Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer Lopez, really? I guess she still counts as a music-related celebrity—and who knows, maybe she’s prepping for a very belated deluxe reissue of the floptastic Brave! The night’s roster of performers and presenters after the jump. MORE »
