VMAs dominated by Miley Cyrus’s stank, Justin Timberlake’s hustle

I don’t even remember the last time I sat down and watched the VMAs purposefully. I’m glad I did, because for the most part, last night’s VMAs was a hot mess. Or maybe Miley just got her stank over the whole night by performing so early and so messily. First, let’s talk about the actual awards. Justin Timberlake won Video of the Year for “Mirrors” which, I’m sorry, is a terrible video. One Direction won Song of the Summer, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won two awards, Best Hip-Hop video (“Can’t Hold Us”) and best video with a social message (“Same Love”). Selena Gomez won her first VMA for “Come and Get It” and Taylor Swift took home an award as well. You can read about the winners here.

Surprisingly enough, there are several moments from the show that I want to highlight, but let’s just get to what everyone is talking about this morning: Miley Cyrus acting the biggest, most cracked-out stripper in the world. Everything about her performance was PAINFUL. I was embarrassed for her. It was like she was nervous and she forgot how to dance so she just decided to grab her crotch a lot and try to twerk and it was just… gross. It’s not a matter of “shaming” a young woman for owning her sexuality. It’s a matter of saying Miley is trying much, much too hard to seem “street” and “ratchet” and “adult” and the whole thing just failed miserably. Oh, and I think Robin Thicke was like, “Um, RLY?”

Here’s Lady Gaga’s opening act. I know she was trying to be grotesque and provocative and whatever, but after Miley’s disastrous performance, I like Gaga’s performance even more. And yes, I think those “boos” were part of the song.

YEEZUS. Call me crazy, but I love this sh-t. Kanye performing a song most people don’t know while completely backlit by a screen of a forest? Seriously, how can you not love Yeezus?!

Justin Timberlake really surprised me – I didn’t expect him to hustle that hard to show people that he deserved to win the Video Vanguard award, which is basically like a Lifetime Achievement Award. Justin’s performance was EPIC. And it really was the best part of the show. Also, old-school N*Sync, bitches!!!

Here’s the video of just the N*Sync stuff.

Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert & Jennifer Hudson performing “Same Love”. This was a beautiful performance. I love the flags!

And that’s about it. I didn’t even stay up for Katy Perry. Was she good? Blah. Anyway. Twerk. Etc.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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