VMA Side Story
VMA Side Story
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#1VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 1:49pm
Not gonna lie, I find it slightly entertaining.
STAGE TUBE: MTV's 'VMA SIDE STORY' - Full Version
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#2re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 2:01pmI hate Katy Perry.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#2re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 2:02pmMost of the individual segments are nothing to write home about, but I think the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (even if Katy Perry is a scar upon the earth).
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
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#3re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 2:08pmI am confused by the opening clip of the guy showing Kid Rock's set up and then showing where everyone is sitting in the audience. I am assuming they are having performances outside of Radio City. I am also assuming that I am missing something regarding the lyrics sung by the guy in the alley about getting Lady Gaga pregnant. If I am not, then I am not crazy about the lyrics!
Just give the world Love.
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#4re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 3:33pmI don't think you missed anything. The guy in the alley is the sleazy host saying that he wants to sleep with Lady Gaga. Did anybody else think that Katy Perry looked a little crazy and obsessive about trimming the hedges? And, if you look at the freeze-frame in the thing on the left of this page showing videos, if you click on the number for the video, it looks like she's about to cut her head off.
#5re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 3:46pmShe sounded HORRIBLE.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#6re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 3:52pmI wasn't crazy about her vocals either.
Just give the world Love.
#7re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 3:53pmI actually liked it when it was all put together. I still think Taylor Swift sounds horrible but I loved Katy Perry. I have to say though I'm biased towards her because I absolutely love her music. Definitely liked it a lot better when it was put together rather than individual segments.
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#8re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 3:54pmWhile it is good Katy Perry did not get to play "Natalie Wood" Also, Cobra Starship is the best part. Taylor Swift is just straining herself WAAAY too much.
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#11re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 4:35pmWell, I didn't like any of the individual bits much (except for maybe Russell Brand, just because he's just so incredibly creepy that it's amusing), but I really liked the all-around effect, especially the ending. That was a pretty cool idea.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#12re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 4:52pmCan you imagine if that CONCEPT was done with people who actually could sing? I thought VISUALLY it was cool. The lyrics weren't really that unique, but what bothered me was that no one sounded good singing them. I kept thinking that it needed to be recorded in a studio where they had multiple takes . . . frightening that it WAS and those were probably the best takes!!
". . . POP . . ."
#13re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:41pmWhoa. Not one of them can sing this music! Or stay on key. Or hold a note. Not even close.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#14re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:49pm
Great concept. Poorly executed. Abysmally sung. It gives me a whole new appreciation for the kids who sing and dance it live 8 times a week at the Palace. More talent in one of them than the entire lot of "stars" in the MTV promo. Tragic.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Updated On: 8/25/09 at 06:49 PM
Craww
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#15re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:55pm
Hah, Katy Perry is a nicer girl than I thought. Clearly she sounded so incredibly awful to make everyone else sound way better. Good on you Katy Perry, I'd totally make out with you at a party for shameless male attention.
I enjoyed it, though. FANGS UP/JAZZ HANDS COMBO for Cobra Starship. Judicious snaps, Gabe Saporta. You always sing poorly with the most style.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#17re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:18pmToo bad they cut most of the amazing Ne-Yo/Cobra Starship pairing (which you can see in full on YouTube). Ne-Yo has more talent in his impeccably cocked fedora than everyone else in that video has in their entire body combined.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#18re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:28pmLin Manuel-Miranda's lyrics for this are just awful.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#19re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:31pmHe wrote this?????
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#20re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:33pm
Yup.
"Each artist collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights) to rework the lyrics to make them more VMA-specific."
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/08/17/katy-perry-mtv-vmas-2009/
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#21re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:41pm
I agree about the lyrics and the singing being absolutely awful. Yikes. It's too bad they couldn't sing--it might have been cool if it weren't so painful to hear.
I didn't get Katy Perry's thing. Trimming hedges? Wha?
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#22re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:47pmEurgh, I can't believe Miranda wrote those-- it's like he didn't try.. Shaiman's lyrics for the Tony Awards version of Tonight were better.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#23re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:48pmMiranda got a nice paycheck and the spots will run for 3 weeks and then be forgotten. It was a smart movie for him. His lyrics are horrendous though, but I hated ITH, so I wasn't expecting much.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#24re: VMA Side Story
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:51pm
It shows me, more than ever, just how packaged, processed, and plastic today's pop musical "talent" is. Totally prefabricated and corrected in a studio electronically.
Because when you take away most of their audio enhancing toys, there's nothing left at all. I'll say one thing, it's a tribute to the current crop of sound engineers employed by the record labels that they can make this bunch sound close to human.
You used to have to sing just a little bit to be a singing star. I'm talking about the pop-fluff singers of the '50s through the '80s. The teen stuff.
These people can't sing! Not even a little bit.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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