SayItAintTay: 2013 American Music Awards RECAP!!!!

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.

Her voice is bigger than she is

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.

" I'm Justin ,these are the Tennessee Kids and this is a song about alcohol"

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.

Any performance that requires three outfit changes, needs recognition

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 10^th.

Ummmm.....

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.