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.

 

Momma Fenty (Rihanna's mommy) present4ed her with the award after a tear jerking, speech.

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

Really though, what factory was she made in? Swag like this don't come naturally

 The piece is Jean Paul Gaultier Couture 2013, aka a dress that nobody can pull off but Rih,Rih


 

Tay's Best Dressed: Naya Rivera
                             Micheal Kors  Spring 2013

Classy, Sexy, Sophisticated... So Tay



Sllllaaaaayyyy!!!

Tay's Worst Dressed: R Kelly
                                Leather Man-Skirt
                                           

2 words "Leather".. "Man-Skirt"...enough said




 

You can't sing Wrecking Ball and not be swinging from one naked #newrule

Aside from the random singing cat in the background, and lack of flatback twerking, Miley Cyrus gave a pretty good performance.

 God forbid, Lady Gaga arrives to a show in a limo like everybody else.



Man Crush Monday : Columbus Short

Since Harrison is finally getting some action on my TV addiction Scandal, and they finally are giving him more than 2 lines per episode this season, this week’s Man Crush Monday goes to Columbus Short.

What is it about a man in a suit?

 

 

I don’t know if it’s the suit, or the smooth voice, but Mr. Short commands attention of the screen whenever he’s on, even if it is for a few moments.  This former choreographer slid his way from the background of Britney Spears and first caught female’s attention in Stomp the Yard in 2007.  He attempted to get people to ignore genetics again by playing Chris Brown’s brother for the second time in This Christmas (2007) And if you watch the black teen movie of the century You Got Served (2004)for the 1 millionth time you can see Mr. Short flexing his chest behind Omarion and his hardcore gangsta dance crew (if you were too busy screaming for B2K, its ok if you missed him). And if you really want to feel old, go back to your That’s So Raven (2005) days, remember Trey from Boyz N Motion?.. yea that was him too.(Feel old yet?)

Short decided to make people take his acting skills seriously when he took the role of Little Walter in Cadillac Records (2008). And he hit the jack pot when he caught the attention of Shonda Wright and was casted as the intelligent, smooth talking, Gladiator, Harrison Wright in everybody’s prime time addiction Scandal, alongside Kerry Washington. Columbus Short is definitely a diamond in the rough in Hollywood and it’s only a matter of time before he lands a role that gets him the true recognition he deserves but until then let’s just enjoy letting him talk our panties off every Thursday night.

C Short used to be a choreographer for Britney Spears, not like K.Fed was a dancer but yea..



Ooo that smile.. *melts*

C.Short talks, Olivia Pope out of bad situations as his role as Harrison on Scandal. His loyalty to Olivia Pope every episode makes him even more sexy. Glad he's finally gonna get some action this season.

BOYS! WE ARE THE BOYS IN MOTION! WE GIVE YOUR OUR DEVOTION!..damn I'm old :-P



C.Short 's acting skills are really slept on, his best role was in Cadillac Records as Little Walter.

 

Hands off this one ladies.. he's married... and she's cute -_- *crowd goes awww*

We can still look though.. right? :-P

Stalker Notes:

                   Twitter : @ColumbusShort1 
                    Instagram :  shortpics


UPDATE: Coumbus Short filed for divorce from his wife early 2013. FREE FOR ALL LADIES!!
 Scandal come on Thrusdays at 10 on ABC.. join the addiction! ;-P

Ooooo On the TLC Tip!! : Crazy,Sexy, Cool : The TLC Story

         Unless you have been living under a rock for the last couple months or so, you were more than hype when VH1 announced that they were creating a bio pic based off the lives of the legendary girl group TLC.   Twitter was abuzz with opinions and criticism after the release of the cast for the movie.  Actress Drew Sidora as the smooth deep voiced Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins award winning speller and quarterback, child star KeKe Palmer as Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, and hip hop’s outcast and longest running joke, Lil Mama as the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez. After months of preparation, and filming, the movie finally premiered on VH1 Tuesday night, and 4.5 million people gathered in front of their TV screens to take a trip down musical memory lane.

        While a little over dramatic and a tab bit on the corny side, Crazy Sexy Cool, named after the trio’s best selling album, was pretty sweet.  The movie detailed the drama and trials of TLC’s rise to fame while telling unknown behind the scenes stories.  Here’s a few points that stuck out.

 1)  Lil Mama is Left Eye

               Was anyone else pleasantly creeped out at how much Lil Mama resembled Left Eye? Even though Lil Mama’s lip gloss has dried up and she can’t be taken seriously as a rapper, her portrayal of the late Left Eye put Lil Mama back in the lime light, even if it is for 15 minutes. From her impulsive, hilarious punch lines, to her distinctive tone and voice, Lil Mama was able to embody the sexy swag of Left Eye. What was so amazing about her performance was, unlike her costars Palmer and Sidora, who had the real T-Boz and Chili to draw inspiration from, Lil Mama was able to accurately perform Left Eye’s personality and mannerisms without the direction of Left Eye. Either she watched the Left Eye documentary one hundred too many times, or the spirit of Lopez descended from the heavens and took the body of the 5 ft tall rapper. Either way, it melted your heart a little to see Left Eye back on our TV screens.  Her performance got me so much into the movie that I forgot about her untimely death at the end.  Her performance was so good, it almost made everyone forgive her for her awkward,” hip hop holy ghost “disruption of Jay Z and Alicia Keys’ performance at the 2009 VMA’s. Almost. 

It was times in the movie where she looked so much like Left Eye , it was scary.

Lil Mama did her thing in the movie but I don't think she will ever be publicly forgiven for storming the stage and ruining a legendary Jay Z performance.

   2)  Damn Pebbles is shady

LOL

         Because the bio pic was mainly written around the point of views of T-Boz and Chili, the portrayals of certain main characters in the movie may have pissed some people off, specifically former TLC founder and manager Peri “Pebbles” Reid. (or that chick Crystal that was the girl in the TLC before Chilli. They did her wrong) While LA Reid’s ex-wife may or may have not been a money hungry manger in reality, Rochelle Aytes’ portrayal got everybody to hate her and blow her twitter up with memes and insults.  According to the story of T-Boz and Chilli, Pebbles founded and nurtured the girls into stars, while locking the young ambitious girls into a slave contract that robbed them of their royalties and profits forcing the platinum selling artist into bankruptcy. The real Pebbles Reid, not surprisingly, wasn’t too happy about the allegations of her being a greedy, money hungry thief and responded via twitter after T-Boz’s promotional interview with  The Breakfast Club  on Power 105.1.

Pebbles was NOT happy about her portrayal in the movie, but aye every bio pic has somebody in real life that's mad, which usually means that the story is true. *cough,cough Lil Kim*

Rochelle Aytes and Carl Payne played Pebbles and LA Reid

 

And of course the social media world had a ball with the memes lol

1     3) Real Dallas Austin vs. Evan Ross as Dallas Austin

 
       Everybody enjoys the actor or actress to resemble the person they are supposed to be portraying in bio pics, it makes them more believable. But there should be an unwritten rule in movies to not have the actor look a MILLION times better than the original person. ATL star, Evan Ross, played the role of producer, Dallas Austin, so well, that it made people do a wikapedia search of his work. (It really blew me that people where claiming to be TLC fans and not know who Dallas Austin was)  The ladies watching had their brief, imaginary, love affair with the producer crushed when they realized the real Dallas looked like an older, dustier version of the sexy Evan Ross (Man Crush Monday?). Even though he consistently did Chilli dirty in the movie, in my mind Dallas Austin is Evan Ross sending “500” to my IPhone.

 

Is it just me or does Evan as Dallas Austin look better than real Dallas Austin?

Or maybe I just like looking at Evan Ross #heyboo

Before Usher,Chilli had had gave her heart to  Dallas Austin. He produced a lot of TLC's hits. They have a son together named Tron.

4) TLC is NOT Destiny's Child!!! -_-

       Just like any major musical event that doesn’t include Beyonce, the Bey Hive couldn’t let TLC be great for 2 hours without tweeting their Destiny’s Child comparisons. First off, anybody with a decent ear for music would rather compare apples and oranges with a brick wall, before comparing the great DC trio to TLC.  Being a TLC fan and a Destiny’s Child fan are not mutually exclusive concepts. But let’s be real, the edginess of TLC can’t hold a candle to the squeaky clean group that Mathew Knowles built. Beyonce would have received 40 lashes for even considering wearing a condom as an accessory, let alone the bare mentioning of sexual intercourse. (I’m talking about red haired Kelly, micro braids Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, not “Sleep in your T-Shirt” Destiny’s Child)  And then, the crazy Beyonce stans (not saying I’m not one) couldn’t even get 5 minutes into the damn movie before they started demanding a Destiny’s Child bio pic. -_-  Now let me be clear, I probably know all the words to every Destiny’s Child song on every album (including the Christmas album), and I would be the first one in front of a screen if such a movie was made, but let’s be real, a Destiny’s Child bio pic would probably be just as interesting as a WNBA championship game. People would probably die to see Beyonce encountering the undeniable swag of Jay Z for the first time, but that’s it.  We would treat it like all of Beyonce’s 50 documentaries of herself, we’d watch it because it’s Beyonce, and then never speak of it again. (Don’t believe me? Who has intentionally watched Life Is But a Dream more than once?....don’t worry I’ll wait)

There wouldn’t be any abortions, or house fires, hell I can’t even picture a decent sex scene that Tina Knowles would approve of.  The movie would be boring for the simple fact that the girls of Destiny’s Child actually like each other!  You can’t picture Kelly swinging on Bey like T-Boz did Left Eye. The dysfunctional love TLC had for one another was the most compelling part of the movie. Nobody wants to watch Kelly and Michelle smile and hug each other for 2 hours. I’ll scream “All hail Queen Bey” to the roof tops when it comes down to music and performing, but a whole bio pic? Nah, I’d rather use those 2 hours of my life more productively.

If not based on the casting alone, the movie was great. Tay Approved :-)

You can't have a bio pic without a greatest hits album can you?  TLC's album" 20" is in stores now.

You ever wonder what type of stuff Left Eye would have said about Nicki Minaj today? hmmm R.I.P

 "A scrub is a guy who thinks he's fine, also known as a busta, always talkin bout what he wants but just sits on his broke ass"

 I know all the moves to the No Scrubs video. Whats your favorite TLC song? Leave em in the comments below :-)