The 2009 MTV Video Music Award Nominees

[BUTT]

Byron the Bulb says everyone who was upset about Kanye's actions hates black people, and he's dead right.

 

[Black Lushus]

I hate you black bastards, you STINK! I hate your black skin. I hate your black pants. I hate black pepper. I hate black keys on a piano. I hate my guns, cuz they black. I hate Whoopi Goldberg's lips. I hate the back of Forrest Whittaker's neck. Most of all, I hate that black-ass Wesley Snipes.

 

[CBright7831]

I hate your black bastards, you STINK! I hate your black skin. I hate your black pants. I hate black pepper. I hate black keys on a piano. I hate my guns, cuz they black. I hate Whoopi Goldberg's lips. I hate the back of Forrest Whittaker's neck. Most of all, I hate that black-ass Wesley Snipes.

What about Michael Jackson?

 

[Youth N Asia]

I finally caught Bouncy's video...it was quit bad.

 

[Czech]

I just saw it too. I thought the choreography was kinda cool, but I find the whole Beyonce greater pop construct categorically disgusting.

 

[wnyxmcneal]

but I find the whole Beyonce greater pop construct categorically disgusting.

What does this even mean?

 

[Czech]

...I don't know.

 

[Youth N Asia]

No idea, but it sounds smart

 

[Czech]

I think I meant her "gimmick." All that materialistic female empowerment crap makes me wish HOVA would shut her up.

 

[still fly]

That's been Beyonce's gimmick since 1997. Nothing new there.

 

[Czech]

I dunno, it's weird, because I've said before that "Unpretty" by TLC was a really good and positive song as far as you-go-girl R&B goes, but for whatever reason, Beyonce comes off as sort of an annoying cunt. It's the difference between "be proud of who you are" and "buy me expensive shit." I think it's because the lyrics are so awful. You can't rhyme "in a minute" with "in a minute."

 

[HSJ]

I dunno, it's weird, because I've said before that "Unpretty" by TLC was a really good and positive song as far as you-go-girl R&B goes, but for whatever reason, Beyonce comes off as sort of an annoying cunt. It's the difference between "be proud of who you are" and "buy me expensive shit." I think it's because the lyrics are so awful. You can't rhyme "in a minute" with "in a minute."

In a minute and In a minute rhyme perfectly. You're crazy.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

If you need your dose of woman power movement, you should listen to Alicia Keys instead. Not that she only focuses on that but I like her a lot more than Beyonce.

 

[pbone]

I dunno, it's weird, because I've said before that "Unpretty" by TLC was a really good and positive song as far as you-go-girl R&B goes, but for whatever reason, Beyonce comes off as sort of an annoying cunt. It's the difference between "be proud of who you are" and "buy me expensive shit." I think it's because the lyrics are so awful. You can't rhyme "in a minute" with "in a minute."

I have a similar bone to pick with the Black Eyed Peas. They suck up and down, but they began their career with that song, "Where Is The Love," then, a couple years later, we have total garbage like "Fergalicious" and that good good night song. Yecch.

 

[Gary]

They were around before "Where is the Love?" pbone, and they were terrible then too.

 

[BUTT]

As I recall, the album with "Where Is The Love" had a bunch of other vapid ass-shaking ain't-I-the-hottest-bitch singles, so it's not like there was a massive shift from that song to their current sound.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Amusingly enough, the first time I heard of Black Eyed Peas was back in '97/'98 when they were the opening act of a package tour headlined by Everclear and Soul Coughing that my brother saw. Jimmie's Chicken Shack got billing over them!

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

They're both on Universal Records too. No shit this was a stunt. We're a nation of latently racist easy marks. How could it have possibly failed?

If it was all a stunt, what was the point of it all? What purpose did it serve?

To get everybody to talk about Kanye West and Taylor Swift, which is what happened.

But everyone's talking about Kayne like he's the son of Satan. How is that good publicity?

There's no such thing as bad press.

That's true. Just ask Vince.

 

[bigolsmitty]

As I recall, the album with "Where Is The Love" had a bunch of other vapid ass-shaking ain't-I-the-hottest-bitch singles, so it's not like there was a massive shift from that song to their current sound.

Not to mention that "Where is the Love?" was terrible schlock itself.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I was a bigger fan of "Let's Get Retarded" personally.

 

[foleyfanforever88]

I was a bigger fan of "Let's Get Retarded" personally.

NO. My roommate two years ago played that shit all the time just to be annoying. Not that either is great, but the edited version "Let's Get it Started" is so much better. "Let's Get Retarded" is, well..I don't even need to say it.

 

[BUTT]

Nowhere in the discussion over this Kanye incident has it come up that "Single Ladies" is nowhere near being one of the best videos of all time. It's just three women dancing in front of a white screen! Call me old-fashioned, but I liked when music videos were about pyrotechnics, sports cars and women in leather being bitten by snakes.

 

[Czech]

Yeah but the choreography.

I can't get past the fact that the song is just "diddlydootdiddlydoot" over and over. Is this what annoying Animal Collective fans are talking about when they gush over a five-minute loop of a three-second sample and say "ALL MUSIC WILL SOUND LIKE THIS"? I hope not! This sucks!

I don't care about material things like a social status
I just want sixteen-bar progressions and a bridge FOR MUH GIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLSSSSS

 

[Czech]

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I was a bigger fan of "Let's Get Retarded" personally.

NO. My roommate two years ago played that shit all the time just to be annoying. Not that either is great, but the edited version "Let's Get it Started" is so much better. "Let's Get Retarded" is, well..I don't even need to say it.

You, sir, are retarded.

Actually, I don't really like either. I was being semi-factitious and the only edited version of a song that's unironically better than the censored one is "Sensual Seduction"!

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I dunno, it's weird, because I've said before that "Unpretty" by TLC was a really good and positive song as far as you-go-girl R&B goes, but for whatever reason, Beyonce comes off as sort of an annoying cunt. It's the difference between "be proud of who you are" and "buy me expensive shit." I think it's because the lyrics are so awful. You can't rhyme "in a minute" with "in a minute."

Wait, are you implying that Beyonce was in TLC? Because she wasn't.

 

[BUTT]

Shut up Byron

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Well that was certainly uncalled for.

 

[BUTT]

Clearly he doesn't think Beyonce was in TLC.

 

[CBright7831]

According to a gossip magazine that I was, sadly, reading while eating lunch at work today, Beyonce was not the only one who offered to let Taylor Swift come up and finish her acceptance speech. Eminem, who won Best Hip Hop Video, also offered to let Taylor come up and speak after the incident, but the producers informed him that Beyonce was going to win the award for Best Video later in the night, and that she was going to let Taylor speak.