Emmy Awards ’09

I LOVE television.  I watch A LOT of television shows. Every year I watch the Emmy Awards. Then I realize that there are so many television shows that I DON’T watch.

(Before I get into that, let me say that Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother (and Doogie Howser, M.D. !) ROCKED as the Emmy host.  He is funny, cute, and charming and should just host EVERY awards show.  Ha.)

So back to the television shows that I don’t watch.

Maybe I should be watching 30 Rock (Winner, Best Comedy Series)?  I did give it a try a couple of times last season but I just could not get into it.  Tina Fey seems like a fun gal, but the show is not The Office.  None of The Office nominees won, but John Krasinski (Jim!) looked so darn cute, so that was enough for me.

Maybe I should be watching Mad Men (Winner, Best Drama Series)?  This one I will give you.  It looks really cool and I should start the TIVO now.  The men are cute, the women are fashionable, and this show always wins tons of awards. 

Maybe I should be watching Breaking Bad, Damages, or United States Of Tara?  They all won awards last night. But excuse me, what are these shows?  I know that cable programming is getting more front and center attention, but I just have zero interest in these shows.   I have not even heard of them. I also don’t have time to TIVO any new shows. (I already need to make room for Mad Men now!)

John Cryer won Best Supporting Actor for Two And A Half Men. That was cool.  It’s great to see Duckie from Pretty in Pink come out ahead after all these years!

I am a huge reality show fan.  Amazing Race won for Best Reality Show.  It really is an incredible show.  It must take hundreds of behind-the-scene experts to pull off this globe trotting competition.  But I was hoping Ryan Seacrest from American Idol would win Best Reality Show host.  He deserves it.  He is the face of AI.  (Jeff Probst won for Survivor.) And, of course, I love Top Chef so I was glad it was (at least) nominated.

Heidi Klum from Project Runway was also nominated for Best Reality Show Host.  She lost, but man, she WON for looking amazing at almost 9 months preggers.  You go girl!

MTV VMAs ’09

So I’m sure this will be the moment we all remember most from this year’s MTV Video Music Awards: 

Kanye West walked up and snatched the microphone right out of Taylor Swift’s hands during her acceptance speech for Best Female Video for her awesome song, “You Belong With Me.”  He proceeded to talk about how Beyoncé should have won the award instead.  He left Taylor Swift standing there just shocked and confused.  The worst part of it all is that every entertainment news outlet is still talking about Kanye’s rude moment and that is probably exactly what he wanted.  Taylor was a class act, of course.  She didn’t make a fuss at all and it was INCREDIBLY classy of Beyoncé to bring Taylor back to the stage to finish her acceptance speech.  Beyoncé won Video of the Year for “Single Ladies” and rather than use the time herself, she handed it all over to Taylor. Girl Power!

I loved Madonna’s opening of the show.  Her tribute to the late Michael Jackson was poignant and heartfelt.  She really dug in the fact that we all just kinda forgot about MJ until his death.  She reminded us again that he was definitely ”one of the greatest talents the world has every known.” Janet then performed the song “Scream” while dancing along to the video she had created with her brother almost 15 years ago.  She was strong and powerful and it was a touching moment.

Lady Gaga can crank out the hits but, man, is she weird.  She had some crazy costume changes, Kermit the Frog as her date, and a performance that ended with her bloody and hanging from the ceiling.  In the future, I’d prefer to just listen to the fun Lady Gaga songs on the radio and ignore all the rest of her.

And let’s talk about Beyoncé’s leotard she wore during her “Single Ladies” performance.  She looked GREAT, but I felt a little uncomfortable watching her thrust and knee bend in that thing.  Overall, the performance was amazing with all her backup females dancing the steps to the most popular video of the year.  It was some awesome eye candy.

I have to end with Pink.  That girl can SING.  And she SANG while performing on a trapeze high above the VMA stage.  It was so incredible to watch. I was holding my breath for most of it.  She definitely pulled it off and it was my favorite performance of the evening.  Plus, she was the first celebrity to hit Twitter after the Taylor Swift/Kanye West deal. She called Kanye a piece of “you know what” and told all her Twitter fans to “pass it on.”  Love her.

PS – It took me an hour and a half to figure out how to put that fun accent over  Beyoncé’s name!  Ha. I’m committed.

Teen Choice Awards ’09

Here are some observations about the 2009 Teen Choice Awards on FOX – from my (Pop) mommy perspective:

*I would be totally cool if Annabel loved The Jonas Brothers.  They are ‘clean cut’ and cute. Oh, AND talented. Okay, fine, I’ll be honest.  I like the Jonas Brothers.  (Plus, I really love that they always give their mom some major props.)

*I consider myself really hip about pop culture, but I did find myself saying “Who is THAT girl?” or “Who is THAT guy?” A LOT. (I guess because I don’t watch The Disney Channel. Oh, and I’m not a TEEN.)

*I thought it was so funny that Ellen won the TEEN choice award for best twitter. She is 51 years old.  I guess she just crosses all the boundaries.  Amazing.

*Zac Efron is cute – no denying it.  He also seems like a great guy.  He won for 17 Againwhich was a really good flick that both me and my hubbie enjoyed.  Plus, he definitely gets points for standing by his girlfriend, Vanessa Hudgens, through all the “controversy.”

*It was great to see the teen cast from Glee.  I can’t wait for the series premiere next month!

*I LOVE Gossip Girl.  It’s just so entertaining. (But I would FREAK OUT if my son or daughter acted like any of those kids on the show.)  Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass!) won for best TV villain.  He is awesome and it was so weird to hear him talk in his (real life) British accent.

*I really think Miley Cyrus is talented, but her reputation has been ruined a bit from some of her poor choices in the past.  It’s really unfortunate.  Hopefully she has learned from it all and her teen girl fans have also learned from it too.

*I LOVE that new Black Eyed Peas song “I Got A Feeling.”  They rocked it out.

*Britney won an Ultimate Choice award and she looked really happy.  She was really short and sweet with her acceptance speech which was good.  Hopefully, she’s moving forward on a healthy path.

*Finally, I just put Twilight in my Netflix queue because I can not stand to be ignorant about this movie or the young actors anymore!  Twilight won the most Teen Choice awards of the night, so I am officially intrigued and jumping on the bandwagon.

On a final note: There was a commercial that ran about an ”Octomom” documentary that airs next Wednesday on FOX.  So I have to go and put that one in my TIVO right now…

AI: Two Winners…One Loser

I watched American Idol last night and I was LOVING the performances until both Adam and Kris sang the brand new song, “No Boundaries” written by new Idol judge Kara DioGuardi.  Blech.  I thought it stunk.  Neither Adam nor Kris could make it sound good which is definitely saying something…that the song stinks!

Let me mention now that I’ve NEVER been a Kara fan.  Here’s the thing: It was not necessarily HER at the beginning.  I was mad because they were messing with the “three judge” Idol flow.  Why fix something that is not broken?  Then, as the weeks went on, Kara just became annoying.  I really think Paula is super cool (and wacky too, yes I’ll admit) so I don’t like them throwing in another girl judge just ”because.” And then Kara went and wrote a yucky Idol finale song.  So I’ll just go ahead and call Kara the “loser” of the night.

The “winners” are Adam and Kris.  I’ll be honest and say that I think Adam did a little better.  He’s such a gifted singer and performer.  Paula mentioned that he is “iconic” and I believe he is.  Simon even called him a “Worldwide Star.”  I LOVED that he performed “Mad World” because that was one of my favorite performances all season.  And he killed   “A Change Is Gonna Come.”  I rolled my eyes a little when I heard them announce that song, but Adam really rocked it.  So, “You go Adam!  I voted for you!”

Kris was also super strong.  Even though Adam was better OVERALL, Kris’ performance of “Ain’t No Sunshine” was amazing. 

A few other things to mention before I get ready for the American Idol final result show tonight:

• I saw Katie Holmes and Suri in the audience – that was neat.
• I did end up watching Glee all over again and it was FUNNIER the second time.
• I watched a little of Paula on HSN but I did not buy any of her jewelry (yet, ha!)  It was 11:00 PM EST (!) when she got started and I was already tired from watching Real Housewives of NEW JERSEY.

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