The 2009 VMA's and Lady GaGa!

So who was watching the 2009 Mtv Video Music Awards? ME! I'm not really into Mtv or watch any of their shows but I always make sure to watch the VMA's to see some of my favorite artists, one in particular this year, Lady GaGa (big fan). I'll be talking about her a lot and her nuttyself later but first I'm going to give an overview about the highlights of Sunday nights show. It opened up with Madonna giving a pretty long somber speech about the King of Pop, Micheal Jackson and his untimely death. After that Janet Jackson did a dance tribute to him which was pretty nifty, JJ's lookin good. Alrighty now I'm sure you've already heard about the...Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident -_- If I didn't already dislike him this certainly gave me a reason to not like him. Taylor Swift won Best Female Video right, which honestly I thought should have went to Beyonce(Single Ladies) or Lady GaGa(Pokerface) but whatever thats not the point. Kanye, whos known to cause a commotion and complain, gets on stage during Taylor's acceptance speech grabs the mic from her and says; "Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and Ima let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best video's of all time, of all time!" Was that not disrespectful or what? I felt so bad for Taylor as she just stood there confused and walked off the stage looking disappointed. Totally uncalled for of Kanye who was later boo'ed by the audience each time a nomination for him appeared(serves him right). Anyway, major kudos to Beyonce when she won Video of the Year for Single Ladies. She pretty much gave the stage to Taylor Swift so she could finish her acceptance speech. Very classy of Beyonce. See! If Kanye would have kept his big mouth shut he would have got to see his dream girl get on stage and accept the award for VIDEO OF THE YEAR! Whata bozo, and to think poor Taylor had to perform after that! She did a pretty kickass job singing on a moving subway train finishing it off outside Radio City Hall dancing on top of a yellow taxi cab. Other peformances included Green Day and Muse who rocked the show pretty good, I can't say I'm a big fan but they definitely did they're thing and got the crowd going. Beyonce performed Single Ladies for like the millionth time since the past year but I must say this was probably one of her best performances I've ever seen with lasers and booty shakin' galore and boatload(er stage load heh) of girls dancing to the single ladies choreography! Another stand out performance for me was Pink's "Sober" which she sang while performing aerial acrobatics. it was really clever/unique and I applaud her for being able to sing so well while doing all those funky moves in the air! The final major performace was a duet between the ever so lovely Alicia Keys and Jay-Z, together they sang pretty cool tribute to New York city. After that show was pretty much over. The host Russel Brand still annoys me but not so much as last year. Overall I actually really enjoyed this years VMA's they were MUCH better then last years which fell really flat for me. OKAY now it's time for me to talk about my current obsession who is the artsy(literally) Lady GaGa. I wanted to wait until the end cause I have A LOT to say about her! Where do I start? I'll start off by saying she's nuts, but thats only part of what makes her amazing! She arrived with Kermit the Frog as her date(weird, I know) who she kissed several times wearing a pretty interesting outfit, I call this outfit...Gothic Osterich with a touch of Phantom! She certainly stood out in the audience(she was right behind Beyonce by the way). Next, her performance. It starts with the curtain rising and GaGa lying on the floor singing a few bars from "Pokerface" which then turned into the main song that was "Paparazzi" One word...WOW, it had a white theme going on with a modern day victorian style to it. Her outfit was this weird white feathery bunny mask thing with a cut up leaotard with sparkly vest thin covering her chest...I'll call this one...Lady Darko(it was reminiscent of the creepy bunny in Donnie Darko) anyhow, she continued to sing "Paparazzi" she later had dancers remove the Darko mask in a pretty graceful fashion. Nearing the end of the performance she does a short piano solo and bangs her head pretty wildly like she's possessed or some shit. After that she gets up and continues to sing the chorus and then...the chaos starts! Blood begins to fall from her ribcage while she acts out a struggle to continue singing(you can actually hear the audiences gasping at the site of this) the performance ends by her covered in blood hanging by one arm lifelessly in the air in front of bright lights shining through the background. Yeah, that was pretty intense, my Mom and upstairs neighbor had this kind of look on their faces O_O. I'm not sure what the symboloism is of this performance was but I know it has something to do with the paparazzi constantly attacking celebrities. Either way, I must say overall it was an amazing show in all theatricality. One thing I've noticed about Lady GaGa is that her singing has gotten loads better while dancing. A while ago, I noticed she sang live pretty well while sitting at the piano but as soon she gets up to dance it seems as though she stuggles to sing. I've been watching her for a while now and she is definitely mastering her art form with major improvements. After that odd yet wonderful performance, she returns to the audience in another strange outfit, this car crash shall be called...Lacy Red Hot Fire Queen! She had actually to remove the red crown like hat/mask that was covering her face in order to give her acceptance speech for Best New Artist. If three outfits changes wasn't enough she changed yet AGAIN. I must say this next outfit was my FAVORITE. It wasn't even about her actual outfit this time, which was a plain kind of shiny white sequined dress but what she had on her head was...fuckin' EPIC! I'm going to post a picture of it at the end. Pretty much Lady GaGa had transformed herself into a...white bird nest/sea urchin eskimo head! Anyone who wears something like that is a WINNER in my book. I didn't see these next outfits during the actual VMA's but that same night she apparenly changed into this weird outer-spacey kind of dress and then after that ANOTHER change for the after party back into that same sequined dress but with a new head dress that was a needlepoint/satelite dishes covered in a bridal veil or something...WHATEVER it was, it sure was interesting of course hehe! Anyhow, thats enough GaGa talk for the night, I'm SUPER happy she walked away with three VMA's last night, in my opinion she deserved them. I was planning on seeing the GaGa/Kanye tour but after his little stint I wonder if thats even still going, he did say on Jay Leno that he will be taking time off to "analyse" his life or some BS. Either way, I don't know if I could stand seeing him on stage, I don't even really like his music and after what he did to Taylor not sure if I want to go see him even though I'd love to see Lady GaGa...hope she cancels on him! Anyway, thats all for blogging for tonight. This sure was a LONG one! I promise not to make every post like a freakin' essay or anything, I just had lots to say about the VMA's and Lady GaGa heh.



And now here is the AMAZING GaGa bird nest/sea urchin eskimo head look!