When Words Collide, Sentences Form

The AMA togging marathon

* Ok, no one ever said that country singers were rocket scientists...but Brooks & Dunn just said they were glad Mariah Carey won the first award because they were glad to see her in that dress again. Ok...BUT SHE CHANGED. So she wasn't wearing the same thing. She wore more clothes to accept the award.

* Rob Thomas is kinda scary. At least when he performs live.

* Oh great, Lindsay Lohan is making her prime-time singing debut. I predict train wreck.

* Good prediction, The Steph. Wow - she is BAD. And I think she's wearing a nightgown. I don't understand why though. Except she's wearing white and everyone in her band and back-up vocals is wearing black. And she's singing other people's songs. In a strange medley. Her handlers thought this was a good idea? And she just babbled something at the end that no one understood. And is celebrating like something wonderful just happened. She just performed on live TV for the first time...she didn't save a starving infant in Africa like Sally Struthers!

* Phew...a commercial. Relief.

* Gwen Stefani just floated down to the stage in the middle of a rap song in a hot air balloon that looks like an ice cream cone. Picture that image. And then after all that she sang about 6 lines.

* Then she won and went out for her speech and had no clue what award she won cause she wasn't watching since she just got off the stage and still had her monitors in her ears. Cross between cute and funny and just plain arrogant and weird.

* Why is Serena Williams there? Is she still playing tennis or is she just appearing in "ER" and at random awards shows? Is she planning on starting a singing career, too? Maybe she can sing the National Anthem before one of her matches.

* Jenny McCarthy & Hillary Duff are good friends? Since when?

* There is a definite trend in that the female singers are wearing heels soo high that they can't walk or move and always look like they are about to fall over. It's kinda amusing.

* All of the country singers are singing the opposite type of song from what they sang at the CMAs. I guess so that the 12 of us that watch both awards shows don't say "Oh, they're singing the same songs." But I also guess that they should have enough songs in their repitoire that they don't have to sing the same song twice. Afterall, they can fill an entire concert.

* What's with this weird b&w artistic cinematography during the live performances? The first time it was a solo artist and he was wearing black...so I just thought my eyes were seeing things weird or the lighting was bad. Now I see it's something weird they are doing. Just show the performance.

* Cyndi Lauper sounds the same as she did in the 80s. That's cool. She's also just as weird looking. That's also cool.

* Awesome performance by Sarah McLaughlin and Cyndi Lauper. Very, very cool. And Cedric just made fun of the weird filming of the performance. Haha. Hmm...that's the first time he has appeared since the about 45 minutes ago. I guess they decided his joke about Britney's soon-to-be-ex-husband didn't fly too well and they cut him?

* SIDENOTE DURING COMMERCIAL RELIEF: Mark Paul Gossler is gonna be joining the cast of Commander in Chief. I may have to start watching it! And on a further, rather unrelated, note, Dean Cain is joining Las Vegas...giving it even more reason to stay #1 on the favorite shows list!

* Oh no...Serena is a presenter. She's with Frankie J and is about 2 feet taller. She's presenting favorite Latin music artist for some reason. And screwed up her lines...I can't understand a word she said. Urgh.

* Why does every other category have a male & female version, and favorite Latin artist groups them together? Shouldn't they have 2 categories, too?

* Uh oh - the first obvious lip-syncher. Wahoo. I've been waiting for this moment all night. During the young rappers montage.

* How are both 50 Cent and Rob Thomas considered Pop/Rock?

* Will Smith is staying committed to "morals and ideas in the face of negativity." "Ideas??" I hope he meant to say "ideals" and just lost the "l" in the awards acceptance excitement. Otherwise his speech was stupid.

posted by Steph @ 5:27 PM