Who the hell is “Panic! at the Disco”???
I watched most of tonight’s Video Music Awards on MTV. Was it just me, or did MTV somehow pack a room with every significant pop-culture celebrity of the current generation and yet completely fail to create any genuine moments of entertainment?
Such a weird presentation. There couldn’t be more stuff going on at any given moment on the screen and yet nothing stuck. It was like watching a multimillion-dollar theatre production as assembled by an ADHD thirteen-year-old girl and her cool-guy uncle. No matter how far the pendulum would swing toward complete pop-madness we’d suddenly snap back the other way and see Lou Reed perfoming “White Light White Heat” with The Raconteurs (who served as the event’s house band, and who may or may not have been playing with Jim Jarmusch toward the end). Whatever happened to just having two chicks make out? Remember when that was a surefire way to get a positive write up?
The one moment of inspired madness was when some dude from the audience grabs the mike and introduces himself as “Six” and rambles something about MTV not making his show. Jack Black had a good line about how “Six is the new Soy Bomb.”
But that’s about it.
Did anybody watch? Does anybody care?
Tags: MTV, Video Music Awards
September 1st, 2006 at 3:17 am
I didnt watch…i think MTV might be dead. Whats left is its rotting smelly old corpse which is filled with reality/dating shows…ewww…
September 1st, 2006 at 5:41 pm
lets just say I watched 7 minutes of it and I didn’t know anyone…save jack, of course.
September 2nd, 2006 at 2:55 am
it definitely blew, HOWEVER, my pal from college is Panic!’s manager, and was totally on MTV! Way to go scott, and i believe that makes me famous sby proxy.