I am watching the MTV Video Music Awards.
I know, I know. I have no idea why I’m doing this. My only excuse is that I needed something on in the background while I made more GRE flashcards (Legerdemain! Propitiate! Dilatory!), but that does not explain why they are still on and why I am still not in the shower.
And the really sad thing is that I keep wishing every performance would be the N*Sync/Britney “Classroom” combo performance from, I think, 1999.
Ah, shiny silver pants! Ah, J.C. Chasez!
That performance, was of course followed up in 2000 with the “This I Promise You-cum-Bye Bye Bye” extravaganza, complete with video screen heads. Remmeber?
Ah, Justin’s fro! Ah, Lance Bass dancing between two hot chicks! Ah, the “No Strings Attached” tour! Don’t think I didn’t go. Pair that with this equally as dated performance:
And you have my teen years in a nutshell.
Anyway, that was then. And in this post 9/11 world, boys spend more time on their hair than I do…
Britney is a less than fit babymachine
And my pledge kid is in the video that won viewer’s choice
In other words… worlds are expanding and colliding at the VMAs like never before. I haven’t heard of half of these bands. Children of the 90s are being left in the dust, and without stylists and publicists to keep us marginally up to date (like our teen idols), we are lost and confused in the face of modern pop. Except, apparently Jared Leto. Why does he think he can pass as a) a rockstar or b) a twentysomething? Rappers’ names have gone beyond 50 Cent all the way to Bamillionaire. Or something. What does that even mean? Questions abound. Beyonce flips her hair. Again.
Interstitial: Al Gore just said, “I wasn’t planning on being here tonight, but MTV told me that Justin Timberlake was bringing sexyback… so here I am.” Now he is showing pictures of glaciers to the crowd at Radio City Music Hall.
Axl just turned up. He has been recently waxed. JOHN NORRIS IS WEARING DONALD TRUMP’S HAIRPIECE. BACKWARDS.
And it’s over. And it’s bedtime for this old broad.
Uh, do you remember that time that it was New Year’s and we were sitting in your basement watching the Britney Spears concert at 1am? Yiiiiiiikes.
hahahahah i just realized why you wanted the link to my dance dance cameo. i look like something out of the exorcist. whoops.
and you leave p!atd alone haha