{"id":18,"date":"2006-08-31T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-08-31T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T03:36:00","slug":"mtv-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/mtv-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV VMA&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on at MTV? <\/p>\n<p>Where did all the rock go (sung to the melody of &#8220;Where do broken hearts go&#8221;).  Seriously, the entire first half (at least) of the VMA&#8217;s was all pop, hip-hop, rap, dance, etc.  Thankfully, they at least had a rock house band. <\/p>\n<p>I know music has always been all about sex and everything, but since when do the cameras at award shows pan up and down women&#8217;s bodies and linger on specific sexual body parts?  We don&#8217;t need more shit to make women more sexualized.  There&#8217;s enough objectification of women already and we don&#8217;t need to promote that more.<\/p>\n<p>The annoying beat that played after each person was announced drove me crazy.  That&#8217;s all I have on that topic.<\/p>\n<p>The show was grossly disorganized.  Jack Black was alright &#8211; I expected more from him.  But the show was so disorganized it went over by a half hour.  It felt like a train wreck.  So frustrating to watch. <\/p>\n<p>The only thing they had going for them this year was that they had Al Gore on and allowed him to present a small section of his documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/a>.  Oh, and the Raconteurs bringing Lou Reed up, and the guy from ZZ Top.  That rocked.<\/p>\n<p>And where the hell did Axle Rose come from?  And how pompous to say &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t going to come but . . . &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The My Chemical Romance song debuted at the pre-show was okay.  It showed that they really admire both Queen and Green Day, but they just don&#8217;t seem to be good enough to compete at that level. <\/p>\n<p>There was one totally unfair oversight: The Red Hot Chili Peppers got zero awards for Dani California.  Have you seen that video?  It&#8217;s like a trip through rock history in just a few minutes.  It definitely deserved something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on at MTV? Where did all the rock go (sung to the melody of &#8220;Where do broken hearts go&#8221;). Seriously, the entire first half (at least) of the VMA&#8217;s was all pop, hip-hop, rap, dance, etc. Thankfully, they at least had a rock house band. I know music has always been all about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[61,99],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-mtv","tag-vmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}