Last night pop culture junkies gathered around their
televisions, twitter apps in tow , to watch the annual 2013 American Music
Awards. And after everybody found out the AMA's were NOT the same as the Billboard
Awards that we watched 4 months earlier,
people actually got into it.
The live broadcast opened up with a weird but visually
beautiful performance by Katy Perry, and gathered music lovers of all genres
together, until we all get together again for the Grammy Awards in
January. Aside from Pitbull being a
better host than she is a music artist, here are 5 things worth mentioning.
1)
Damn That Girl Can Sang!!
Everybody’s closet
obsession Arianna Grande, made everybody say sigh and go, “Awwww!” when they
looked at her and say, “Damn!! “when they heard her. The Nickelodeon star has
been hiding in our IPod shuffles for about a year now, and cemented her name in
R&B with her performance last night. Armed with nothing but a microphone, a
red sequin dress and suited background singers, Grande went complete old school
with her vocals and dropped everyone’s jaw. After winning the best new artist
award and the success of her breakthrough album, Arianna Grande is definitely
one to watch.
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| Her voice is bigger than she is |
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| Take notes Disney, you makes stars out of people who ACUALLY CAN SING, not just because they are cute on TV |
2)
The Experience
Takes the Stage
One of many great
performances that night, Justin Timeberlake and his Tennessee Kids brought the 20/20 Experience to the AMA stage. Messing up everybody expectations for a JT
performance armed with a pop hit and a dance montage, JT grabbed his guitar and
performed one of his slept on ,country inspired hits Drink You Away. Right before
being robbed of the Best Pop/Rock Album Award, JT and his band took the crowd
to church , armed with nothing but guitars and bomb ass background singers.
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" I'm Justin ,these are the Tennessee Kids and this is a song about alcohol" |
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| Will twerk for tickets to this concert. |
3)
Yes J-Lo is 44
Out of no where 44
year old Jennifer Lopez came out and made your mother look old. J-Lo did a
magical tribute performance to Cuban pop legend Ceila Cruz , with 3 costume
changes and an amazing dance number, J-Lo had one of the best performances of
the night, and it wasn’t even in English. J-Lo picked up right where her 2005
,performances left off and showed off her post-twins body. If you didn’t enjoy the
vocals, J-Lo gave you enough to look at, in that sexy silver number, and didn’t
miss a step or stumble over a note during her kick ass salsa number. Black
don’t crack, and apparently neither does bodiqua.
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| Any performance that requires three outfit changes, needs recognition |
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| At 44 years old, and a set of twins, say what you want about J Lo but she still puts in work on the stage. |
4)
R Kelly + Lady Gaga= awkward
In a random twist
of events, Lady Gaga and R Kelly collaborated on a song , Do What You Want, for a weird,
sexual, awkward, vocally amazing performance.
We know that Lady Gaga is a genius.We know R Kelly is a genius.But
when two stars collide weird shit happens and this performance showed that.
While the whole Marilyn Monroe, JFK skit caught everybody’s attention, what was
lasting about the performance was Lady Gaga’s killer vocals concluding the
performance. The whole thing seemed kinda random, but Gaga jumped back on the
radar with the performance. Oh and if you are ovulating soon, R Kelly has a new
album coming out. Black Panties is due
December 10th.
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| Ummmm..... |
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| Despite the weirdness of this performance, Lady Gaga did serve us some kick ass vocals at the end. |
5)
Rihanna the Icon
Rihanna-Sexuals UNITE!
While most black
girls wouldn’t dare step more than 4 feet from their house with their hair
wrapped. Rihanna came to an awards show, in front of millions with her hair
wrapped, with bobby pins and all and STILL managed to take a number two on
every girl here who probably sat in hair and make up for 2 hours. Rihanna took home 2 awards last night
including the most notorious, the first ever AMA Icon Award. To the disapproval of critics, this decades
Marilyn Monroe, was presented the award after a heart felt speech by her mother
and video presentation by King Hov. (The AMA’s is not quite big enough for the
Carter’s to show their face). Rih Rih gave a
passionate, but a tad bit over dramatic performance of one of her biggest
hits Diamonds (still with a wrap),
and then proceeded to very dryly accept one of the most notorious awards of the
night. Hate it or love is Rihanna is an icon even if she was too cool to be excited about it.
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| Momma Fenty (Rihanna's mommy) present4ed her with the award after a tear jerking, speech. |
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| First normal chick I see going to the Walmart with bejeweled bobby pins and a wrap, I'm going to push you off a bridge |
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| Really though, what factory was she made in? Swag like this don't come naturally |
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| The piece is Jean Paul Gaultier Couture 2013, aka a dress that nobody can pull off but Rih,Rih |
Micheal Kors Spring 2013
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| Classy, Sexy, Sophisticated... So Tay |
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| Sllllaaaaayyyy!!! |
Tay's Worst Dressed: R Kelly
Leather Man-Skirt
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| 2 words "Leather".. "Man-Skirt"...enough said |
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| You can't sing Wrecking Ball and not be swinging from one naked #newrule |
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| Aside from the random singing cat in the background, and lack of flatback twerking, Miley Cyrus gave a pretty good performance. |
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| God forbid, Lady Gaga arrives to a show in a limo like everybody else. |
