Things learned watching the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards:
1. Lady Gaga has stopped copying Madonna and moved on to co-opting herself, The Flying Nun, SNL, Grey Gardens & Barbarella. Now if only she’d forget all the wigs & theatrics and take her own advice … Just Dance!
2. The MTV Pre-show only featured artists born after the 2nd Clinton Administration. Don’t ask, don’t tell.
3. Miley Cyrus’ performance was brought to you by Beacher’s Madhouse, Amanda Bynes … and every trailer park east of San Bernardino. RIP Twerking.
4. Kanye West is now taking music advice from Kim K … because I haven’t heard anything that badly auto-tuned since her song “Jam (Turn It Up).”
5. Serena Williams’ Radio Shack commercial beats Annabelle in “The Conjuring” for scariest character this summer. Yikes!
6. Thank God for Justin Timberlake.
7. Chris Kirkpatrick is alive.
8. Unless she’s trying to look like a middle-aged data entry clerk at Time Warner Cable, Emeli Sande needs a stylist stat! She’s only 26, people.
9. T-Boz is trying to look like a middle-aged data entry clerk at Time Warner Cable … in Detroit. She (and Chilli) need a stylist stat! They’re not 26, people.
10. When you look up the word ‘wrong’ in the dictionary, Katy Perry’s picture comes up. And you’re gonna hear me SNORE!
With no Britney implosion, Madonna kiss or Kanye ramble, this year’s VMAs will be remembered as the night Miley Cyrus bludgeoned, sodomized and left Hannah Montana for dead in order to writhe her saggy ass in a flesh-colored bikini with teddy bears and married men. Party in the USA!
Lady Gaga — With apologies to “Roar” and no matter what Billboard says, “Applause” really is a bigger hit in da clubs. Props should also be given for performing after undergoing major hip surgery just a few months ago. And lastly, you gotta love a gal who puts on more weaves in three minutes than an entire season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Now if only she’d stop all that highfalutin nonsense about art and culture and just focus on making great pop songs maybe some of the haters would ease up. Finally, someone please tell Gags to give up on all that bizarro insane asylum imagery and videos, it’s already been done … by her!
Austin Mahone — His ushering in the return of the horrendous 90s boy band fashion is the true sign of NSYNC’s resurgence. All these WannaBiebers need to understand that all the leather getups and beanies in the world won’t make their high fructose corn syrupy songs and shaved pits tough. PS his last name sounds like the Spanish word for turd. De verdad!
Ariana Grande — Wait, so all this time that song “The Way” wasn’t by Mariah?? Who knew?! Every time I hear her name I think I’m in line at Starbucks … or Taco Bell.
One Direction — Their name refers to which way they swing. Your guess is as good as mine. And when did Harry Styles morph into young Kevin Bacon? #zerodegrees
Selena Gomez — She won for “Come and Get It,” but from the looks of her revealing Versace gown someone already came and got it. Styling by Janet Jackson.
Taylor Swift — Next year MTV is re-naming the show, “Award Reacts with Taylor Swift” … immediately following the premiere of Teen Moms: Miami.
Shailene Woodley — “The Spectacular Now” & “Divergent” … you betta watch out, Jennifer Lawrence.
Miley Cyrus — Good golly, Miss Molly! Congrats! She has finally found a way to break Billy Ray’s achy breaky heart. But does it really matter what anyone thinks, when you’re trending on Twitter? Winner of this year’s Britney Spears Live Stage Implosion Award. “We Can’t Stop” is the new “Gimme More.”
Robin Thicke — Go directly to Paula Patton. Do not pass Go.
Iggy Azalea — The love child of January Jones and Christina Aguilera.
Lil’ Kim — It’s amazing what the peeps at Madame Tussauds can do these days. Put ya lighters up, in memoriam of Kim’s original face!
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — Great speech which nullified any of A$AP Rocky’s awkward exchange with “homosexual” NBA player Jason Collins.
Kevin Hart — No.
Jared Leto — or was it a makeup-free Courteney Cox? I didn’t realize ombre hair extensions came in Mens.
Kanye West — I’m so over keepin’ up with this Kardashian.
Daft Punk — Will the two guys they hired off Craigslist to wear the helmets and go to the show while they stayed home and counted their money please stand up?
Ed Sheering — Imagine a world where female pop stars with his level of physical attractiveness were allowed to exist. Can’t do it, can you?
Justin Timberlake — Fantastic but lonnnnnnnnnng.
NSYNC — Rockin’ the black and white Pilgrim chic. That ‘reunion’ was also JT’s way of saying we will never do a Backstreet Boys/NKOTB/98 Degrees Mortgage Tour. Bye, bye, bye.
Danity Kane — If you announce a reunion and nobody covers it, does it still make a noise? Apparently not. Damaged, indeed.
Jennifer Hudson — No question she has an amazing voice and looks fantastic. But, unfortunately, I didn’t have same love for that crop top. And I can’t change … but she could have.
Rihanna — I’m convinced she only went to make Drake and former BFF Katy Perry uncomfortable, because she looked even more bored sitting at the Barclays Center as we all did at home.
Drake — So does a Canadian TV series really qualify as starting from the bottom?
Jaden Smith — Move over Xenu, he’s under a Drake spell now.
Katy Perry — Serving some Joanie “Chyna Doll” Lurer realness … in her performance AND the red carpet. Ripping off Sara Bareilles, jumping rope like Madge, performing exactly where Xtina did 11 years ago … wait which one is Lady Gaga? At least her performance featured that hot bearded hipster muscled dancer. Dayum!
… All sleep till Brooklyn.
Here’s Miley Cyrus — after bludgeoning and leaving Hannah Montana for dead — in all her flesh-colored bikini glory at last night’s VMAs — and Britney Spears in her amazing career-defining moment at the 2007 VMAs.
Both are trying desperately to be adults.
Live from New York, it’s Lady Gaga‘s latest VMA performance.
The artist formerly known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta performed her new song “Applause” at last night’s MTV VMAs and instead of copying Madonna, she replicated three old “Saturday Night Live” sketches: Justin Timberlake in Bring It On Down to Veganville, Martin Short as albino lounge singer Jackie Rogers Jr. and Mike Myers in Sprockets.
See, Lady Gaga really is a joke.
After undergoing what appears to be some sort of bone morphing, former rapper/ex-con Lil’ Kim unveiled the latest incarnation of her recently refurbished mug at the MTV VMAs in her hometown of Brooklyn on Sunday.
With a Raquel Welch Rite Aid weave and just a touch of subtle makeup, Kim safely poured most of her 39-year-old flesh into an unforgiving black mesh pantsuit by Glad.
Styling by Madame Tussauds.
“Shahs of Sunset” Persian princess Golnesa ‘GG’ Gharachedaghi showed off her East L.A. chic at a fashion show in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.
Rockin’ her Boyle Heights brows, Santee Alley giant hoop earrings and a cut-off flannel from the Montebello mall, the 31-year-old has traded Reza for La Raza.
GG’s ex-boyfriend Sean Sette recently filed a restraining order against the Bravo reality star and claims she often carries knives with her. Mi vida loca, indeed.
Here’s 19-year-old One Direction singer Harry Styles at an event for the launch of their de rigueur 3D boy band concert film in London on Monday — and Geri Jewell aka Cousin Geri from the classic ’80s sitcom “The Facts of Life.”
So far, only one has publicly dated Taylor Swift.
Former “21 Jump Street” television star Richard Grieco looks BAD!
The 48-year-old one-time pretty young thing showed up to his art gallery opening in West Hollywood on Thursday in his best Hollywood Blvd. Michael Jackson impersonator drag.
If looks could kill …
Levonia Jenkins and LA Lopez take to the streets of NYC and Fire Island to give you what Jezebel called ‘the summer Jam of 2013.’
See what everyone is talking about!
Slate: Forget “Blurred Lines”—Can You Like a Song That Celebrates the C-Word? (Yes.)
Paper: LEVONIA JENKINS AND LA LOPEZ EMBRACE THEIR C*NTINESS WITH “SO C#NT”
Queerty: “So C#nt” Is The New “#BlurredLines,” Other Hashtag Jams Can Go Home
Jezebel: ‘So Cunt’ Is the Summer Jam of 2013
For reasons unknown to man, Richard Simmons traded his trademark Brillo weave and short-shorts for a blonde Michaele Salahi Rite Aid wig and reddish orange getup in L.A. on Tuesday.
The 65-year-old is sweatin’ to “The Real Housewives of DC.”