AlanBarber.Org
Friday, August 29, 2003
MTV VMAs, all flash and no substance
the MTV freaks will do anything to get attention.Here's what the producers conversation probably sounded like:
Producer 1: This is going to be a shit VMA show. Same looser corporate music sellouts are going to win the big awards.
Producer 2: Yea I know. No one is going to be talking about it. What are we going to do?
Producer 1: We need to do something to shock people. Hey you remember the 2000 Movie Awards? Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair kissed on the stage! People still talk about that. Lets get some performers to kiss.
Producer 2: Well we're thinking of having Madonna, Britney, and Christina do a big song and dance. 3 girls kissing will cause an uproar of publicity.
Producer 1: That's great! Let's go get loaded and rig some more votes.
They force some girls to kiss (none of them looked like they wanted to do it) because they know it'll get lots of attention on the news channels. Every morning show on CBS, ABC and NBC showed clips and talked about the kiss and nothing else! I think I saw CBS and ABC each mention that what's his name beat Johnny cash and that was about it.
Big yawn. The VMAs are just like every other award show. A place to make us sit through a few hours of them all pretending to be regular joes that care and not the ego-centric asshats they really are.
This is why I don't watch award shows. It's all just a bunch of fakes and phonies. I prefer to spend my time watching shows that actually involve my brain.
Cue the weekly reminder...
And that's why I love Dead Like Me on Showtime! Ok I know it's corny and I'm always pimping the show, but I just love it. I'm going to keep pimping it until everyone knows about it. Ever since my beloved Farscape was cancelled by the morons at SciFi I'm going to make sure to get everyone I can to watch it so the ratings stay high and my shows stay on the air. I'm tired of good shows being cancelled before the creators/writers decided to end the show.
Remember Fridays at 10:00pm Eastern/Pacific on Showtime. That's channel 537 (SHOe) for you Direct TV viewers!
on 08/29/2003 at 10:33 AM