Rooting for Pat Benatar and Depeche Mode to get in. I’d also say I’m rooting for Whitney, but she HAS to be a lock at this point. I don’t know how they could justify NOT letting her in, given her career and her influence on younger artists.

Not saying you’re wrong in terms of how random it looked, but anybody following Latin music at the time would’ve seen it coming.

De La Hoya’s album and singles got A LOT of promo on music channels back in the day (not sure about radio). He got “artist of the month” spotlights, contests to win tix to his show and backstage passes, etc. So…[Read more]

That’s who I was rooting for, but I didn’t listen to all the nominated albums, so I don’t know which album was, in fact, the best one.

Omg I’d forgotten about this song lol!!! And it was so mediocre, too, compared to the other stuff that got nominated! Can’t hate someone for playing the game, though.

She’s also written A TON of songs for/with people who I assume are Academy members. I can 100% understand that getting her a nomination, but the fact that she won was just so random. Especially for an album that not only had little popularity but also only got her ONE nomination at this year’s Latin Grammys (for Best Portuguese Language Song,…[Read more]

Pet Shop Boys’ “Go West” being nominated for Short Form Music Video (1995) is still totally WTF to me. Thank Jebus “Love Is Strong” and “Lucas with the Lid Off” were there as stiff competition lol.

“Boom Boom Pow” winning Short Form Music Video (2010) was also WTF for me. I don’t care how about all the futuristic special effects; “Wrong” and…[Read more]

Someone might’ve mentioned this already, but I gotta say I’m really surprised Lizzo submitted “Exactly How I Feel” to R&B Song instead of “Cuz I Love You”…

Recién puedo ver la lista de nominados detenidamente, y no puedo entender cómo la ignoraron olímpicamente a Mon Laferte Pude verla en vivo hace como un mes y la mujer se merece todos los premios (or por lo menos, nominaciones).

De igual manera no comprendo por qué ninguno de los Unplugged entró a la categoría de video musical versión larga.…[Read more]

Concuerdo, y me parece también que la gente se concentra mucho en Rosalía por tener algo de qué hablar, y convenientemente se olvida que J Balvin también ganó ese premio.

Aparte que ni siquiera es un premio al mejor video en español (porque canciones bilingües como “Mi gente” y “I Can’t Get Enough” son elegibles). El premio es “Best Latin,…[Read more]

Pimpinela y “El Puma” fueron parte de mi niñez, así que bien por ellos! Pero más felicidad aún siento por mi compatriota de Eva Ayllón 😀

I hope Eurythmics make it in soon. Same with Duran Duran and Pat Benatar.

I’m still somewhat in disbelief that Taylor having to leave early made the VMA producers move the biggest award of the night to the middle of the show (it’s the only explanation I can think of that makes sense).

And then that forced them to end the show with an anti-climactic win by an absent Billie Eilish. Nothing against her, but I can’t…[Read more]

As far as I know, artists still get VMAs for tech awards (or at least they’ve gotten them in the past). That said, Billie is now the second artist in VMA history to have won this award for editing her own video.

According to AP, the remaining winners are:

* Direction: Old Town Road
* Visual Effects: “ME!”
* Choreography: “Con Altura”
* Cinematography: “Señorita”

Source: https://www.apnews.com/ba86e79d6f3940bdaae318dfd1f79e11?utm_medium=APEntertainment&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Marc Jacobs’s speech wasn’t even 1:30 long in full: https://twitter.com/vmas/status/1166185327507202050

I’d honestly been pissed had I been him. Might as well have given him the award on the pre-show, where he got to give a longer interview…

Aw “Gone Till November.” I like that song

Also, did they skip like half the tech awards?

What an anti-climactic moment lol

I almost forgot about J Balvin and Bad Bunny’s performance. Is that still happening?

Did that Marc Jacobs thing happen during a commercial break? What is this, the Tonys?