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BETTE MIDLER HOSTS, CYNDI LAUPER SHINES, MANNEQUINS ARE SET ON FIRE: LIVEBLOGGING THE ’84 VMAS
IN Accolade OF THE 32ND VMAS, A PERSON WHO WASN'T Alive IN 1984 LIVE-BLOGS THE VERY FIRST ONES
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08/26/2016

The VMAs are the wildest night in music. Over the last 32 years, the bear witness has become an institution, the place to turn to to see pop stars wrangle snakes, the identify to sentinel rappers start a fight, the place for Beyoncé birth announcements. Just with all that we recall through the years, it’s easy to forget about the particulars of that very get-go show out of Radio City Music Hall in 1984. Everyone knows almost Madonna’s infamous “Like a Virgin” functioning, but what almost the residual of that original two-hour circulate? Who were the hosts? Who were the performers? What were the awards? What did people see on the dark the VMAs were born? To observe the answers to all these questions and more, I â€" a 1993 baby, armed just with my beloved of early Madonna videos and my copy of I Want My MTV â€" dove into the height secret MTV archives and live-blogged the very beginning VMAs.

0:00:14: The first VMAs begins with a shot of one of the original MTV VJs, Martha Quinn, auspiciously dialing for assist from a crusty bar phone. She is in fact using a pay phone, confirming admittedly that yes, we are in 1984, and welcome to the show.

0:00:20: “ZZ Top” â€" *MARTHA GAWKS* â€" “is refusing to perform unless I get backstage and say hello, it’s pretty unbelievable, merely that’southward showbiz and the show must go along; the prove won’t go on unless I hustle over correct now!” I’ve decided that not only do I like Martha, but Martha would have been my favorite VJ. She is a friendly dork with a mushroom mullet who is down to ramble and humblebrag in front of millions. Get information technology, Martha.

0:00:42: LASERS! AH! (What was going on with lasers in the ’80s that had everyone so excited? Wikipedia is telling me lasers were invented in the ’60s. OLD.)

0:00:51: The lasers are bouncing off a CD. Wait, what? 1984 MTV is having a Compact Disc Giveaway. “Over $100,000 of equipment!” Literally what. Where is my merch, 2016 MTV? Where is my iTunes Shop giveaway? Where are my meaty discs?

0:01:00: God, information technology must accept been and then exhausting to edit together these video clips earlier digital editing software had been invented. I wince every time the photographic camera cuts, just the ’80s special effects look so cool. (I wonder if someone had to articulate the rights on the Star Wars blaster that is currently shooting lasers into the CDs MTV is hawking?)

0:01:21: Damn, they’re actually giving away so much stuff. A CD thespian, 100-plus CDs, massive speakers, amplifier, AM/FM radio, and a cassette player. I want my MTV merch!

0:02:00: A montage of famous people explain the VMAs to me! Who was famous in 1984, you inquire? Tina Turner and Mick Jagger, duh, simply likewise Rod Stewart! Herbie Hancock! Hall and Oates! This guy! Who is this guy? I dearest his shirt. He thinks MTV is pretty scary, don’t you? I don’t know, guy â€" stranger danger â€" but if we’re measuring fame solely by who is in this montage most, this is the most famous person at the VMAs.

0:02:26: Starting a segment for all the anons in this live-blog called We Could Be Friends. First nominees: these gals. (Are my new friends famous? Delight write into the MTV Compact Disc Sale address if you know the answer.) (Update from later in the show: I am a plebe, duh they are famous, they are Belinda Carlisle and Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s.)

0:02:30: MADONNA. Madonna is over it, America.

0:02:47: Black and white! Classy!

0:03:22: This montage is wild. A flaming mannequin just dropped dozens of feet into a pool and then information technology cut to a bunch of hippies playing keytars and staring into the horizon.

0:03:27: Then many 1984 famouses I don’t know! A woman from a clip I should maybe recognize shows upwardly to say, “Arthur, I feel gone crazy.” Same, lady. (We Could Be Friends.)

0:04:xxx: LIVE! Moonmen! VMAs, we made it!

0:05:10: Meet your hosts for the first VMAs: Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd. The ’80s were a dissimilar time.

0:05:25: Dan Aykroyd stands in his moonsuit silently and waits for Bette to sacrifice the spotlight, but Bette just took 15 seconds to fawn in front of the audition, to adulation. Never alter, Bette. (That said, my 2016 eyes can’t help simply flash frontward to Anne Hathaway and James Franco at the Oscars…beware, 1984. It’s all fun and games at present, just you know non the darkness of the world y'all may inspire.)

0:05:51: The running theme of this opening patter is that Bette wants to show off her body more? Dan Aykroyd isn’t having information technology, booming, “Please! Have some dignity and decorum!” Ah, Reagan’s America.

0:07:00: Oh give thanks god, Dan Aykroyd is dropping his moonman voice and introducing the first artist, thus boot off the illustrious tradition of VMA performances with….Rod Stewart?

0:08:30: Rod Stewart is withal performing. I don’t know. I just feel like this is a hoax. Are we certain Rod Stewart is a real person?

0:12:00: ROD STEWART IS STILL PERFORMING????? This endeavour to convince me of his material existence is excessive, and I believe in Rod Stewart even less than before.

0:12:37: This montage of people backstage is a good reminder that there were lots of pencil-headed famous people in 1984. It’south funny, because I have to remind myself that’s not someone doing a Billy Idol homage, it’due south actually only Billy Idol. He really did apparel like that.

0:12:41: This guy again. Hello, friend.

0:12:50: Cyndi Lauper sighting! Her makeup is AMAZING.

0:thirteen:l: Oh my god, is that Lady Gaga??? She time-traveled from 2009 to 1984! Her best postmodern trick yet!

0:xiv:50: Mayor Ed Koch only chosen Radio City Music Hall “Video City Music Hall” in accolade of the VMAs, and then amazingly the photographic camera cut to this lady rolling her eyes at his terrible joke. Nosotros could be friends.

0:15:28: Koch just pulled out a glittered-upwards Michael Jackson glove. Does not mention AIDS or the gays in his pitch for the New York arts scene.

0:sixteen:00: The subtext of all of Dan and Bette’south banter is that they hate each other yet would probably have to think it over earlier saying no to fucking, if but because they’re both famous. Dan simply called Bette big-breasted in a weird accent and did an inexplicable twist in her direction. Bette laughed tightly and mimicked it back. The performative heterosexual mating call is complete.

0:16:41: “All the better to see your manly bulges, you big-butted Eastern refugee.” Bette hates Dan. It must have been then hard to be a woman in the ’80s.

0:17:xiii: You know who loves Dan Aykroyd? David Lee Roth, that’s who.

0:17:15: You know, Dan Aykroyd really did live his all-time life. This fucking vocalisation he’southward doing right now is so annoying and he looks then goddamn pleased with himself and no ane in the audition seems bothered in the slightest.

0:17:30: Cyndi Lauper is and then amazing. She’s doing a bit about reading rules â€" no idea what the rules are, this is 2016, TV has no rules â€" just anyway, Cyndi’s made upward a fake aboriginal Babylonian language (presumably referencing Hammurabi? 1984!) and she keeps interjecting with random English words most coin and ratings and corporate planning. We could be friends Cyndi, always.

0:xix:xxx: Bette is most to have a heat stroke over this dude from The Who with frosted tips and a burgundy bow tie. Bette’s job equally a host appears to exist to ostend for the audience the desirability of every crag-faced man in attendance.

0:20:55: Messing with everything I ever idea I knew virtually award shows, the VMAs presents an award that sounds like the biggest honour first: Best Overall Performance. Nominees include Bowie’south “China Girl,” Michael Jackson’due south “Thriller,” and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Accept Fun,” then 1984 isn’t doing too bad for itself.

0:22:l: Michael Jackson wins, considering duh. Confetti falls from the ceiling, and Diana Ross gets up in this outfit to take for him. For one moment in time in 1984, everything was perfect.

0:24:00: 1984 video montage. Onetime videos are absurd.

0:26:57: Bette Midler keeps making jokes about rats. No thought why.

0:27:18: Jefferson Starship just showed up to talk about Best New Artists and what information technology takes to exist in a music video. “You gotta sound good, look good, and sing adept.” No clarification on the divergence betwixt sounding good and singing good. Grace Slick looks embarrassed to be reading jokes about visible panty lines that were apparently written by a man. Madonna made the cut with her first anthology, and Cyndi Lauper is nominated twice, just The Eurythmics win and I bounce to YouTube to sentry what promises to exist an insane video for “Sweet Dreams” from an orange-fizz-cutting-sporting Annie Lennox.

0:28:50: In a precursor to VMA animals to come, a monkey just appeared with the envelope. American popular culture has never really reckoned with the period from the 1950s to the 1990s that we spent obsessed with chimps. Nosotros jumped direct to Harambe without processing Bonzo!

0:29:ten: There’southward a kind of crazy compressed air gun that keeps going off in the back whenever someone reads a winner, and the audio makes every presenter react like they’re preparing for the Soviet bomb to drop, which in fairness was notwithstanding a possibility because it was just 1984 and we were however technically in the Common cold War. History!

0:29:39: I have no idea who’s accepting Annie Lennox’s award because every rock star looks and talks and walks the aforementioned. They’re all 14 feet tall, with the posture of anile vultures, the floppy black manes of insouciant cocker spaniels, and accents culled from the remains of dying industrial towns. The swain who accepts Annie Lennox’south award seems nice.

0:29:45: Wait, I recognize him maybe? Maybe he is a Ramone? Joey Ramone accepts for Annie Lennox, that’southward rad.

0:31:39: Dan Aykroyd is doing some other annoying vocalization. This time he’s being British. I think information technology might just be annoying considering his voice is so loud? (I’one thousand deplorable, Dan Aykroyd; nonetheless love you in Coneheads.)

0:32:28: Ron Forest, of The Rolling Stones, is the resident red leather arrange rat tail British rock clone. He’s shorter than Joey Ramone and of indeterminate age, and he’s presenting Best Stage Performance, which as far as I tin can tell is an award just for videos that accept place on stage? Host Bette Midler is nominated alongside David Bowie, Duran Duran, The Pretenders, and Van Halen. The horrible snob in me that y'all should 100 percent ignore is so scared Van Halen is going to win this.

0:33:37: A cute lady mime just showed up to give the real envelope? To exist honest, I would be friends with anyone who is a mime, regardless of cuteness or gender, merely Ron Wood ruins the good mime vibes, attempting to flirt via command, “Can you say thank y'all in mime?” Ron Forest doesn’t know who any of these people are except the winner, and naturally, considering I was rooting against it, Van Halen wins.

0:34:12: Van Halen’s David Lee Roth is having the time of his life, and it’southward pretty endearing. Think when stone stars were the rock stars of the twenty-four hour period?

0:35:32: New Dan Aykroyd voice. He says he’s existence Tom Snyder, and I’thou gonna say based on this impression, Tom Snyder is, like, one-half pretentious dad and half sports announcer? Has Dan Aykroyd been wearing these coke bottle glasses all night? (Update: I just checked, and yes, he has.) He’southward introducing “every biker’s dream guest rider” Madonna, which ruins my theory that Madonna showed upwardly at the end of the beginning VMAs and changed the game definitively. It also ruins my hope that I’ll be saving the best VMA content for concluding, only that’due south fine; I’m not mad at information technology.

0:36:00: 1984 Madonna was a fucking genius. All-time production values of the night (which was obviously a backside-the scenes-battle) as Madonna enters atop a wedding block, with a massive arc of white lights flashing backside her, singing what would take been her then-unreleased single “Like a Virgin”.

0:36:35: Watching “Like a Virgin” out of context in 2016, it feels like an artifact from an alien planet. For one, the editing is antithetical to our post-digital understanding of quick-cut excitement, and the half-lidded hardness of baby Madonna is jarring in contrast to our tough-but-approachable stars similar Rihanna or Beyoncé or Nicki Minaj. But Madonna’s performance is somehow equally alien in the context of the 1984 VMA show, which has so far featured women making jokes about covering their panties, covering their breasts, smile, and saying cheers. Enter Madonna, wild yet dead-eyed, a necrophiliac bride atop a paper-thin cake, mocking virginity every bit she writhes in lingerie with “Boy Toy” blazoned on her belt. Much every bit this is the iconic moment of the broadcast, the moment that would be taken and carried and repackaged and reproduced for years to come, when it happened, it was a hostile functioning given to a hostile room. Madonna finishes on the flooring, and the applause is scattered, bewildered, stunned.

0:40:00: “Well. Now that the called-for question of Madonna’s virginity has been answered, we are complimentary to go on to more gaping questions.” Relieved whoops of approval from the crowd at Bette Midler’southward coy denouncement. Existent virgins only, this is 1984! “Making a video is like making love. It is fraught with danger.”

0:41:00: A montage about making videos. Billy Idol doesn’t understand the religious or the sexual references in his ain video. All these sugariness, dorky 1984 video directors are so excited to talk nigh their work, just I’1000 excited to find out at that place was in one case a man man who went past the proper noun Lol Creme. Shoutout to you, Lol.

0:42:30: Cut to Carly Simon! Hi, Carly! Carly’due south friend seems amazing.

0:42:42: Dan: “What can I do to get that kind of self-confidence?” Bette: “Increase your breast size.”

0:43:xx: My sweet boyfriend Pennsylvania natives Hall and Oates prove upward to announce All-time Art Direction, Best Cinematography, All-time Special Effects, and Best Editing. John Oates has such a nice speaking vocalization and such a fluffy mustache; he makes no weird women jokes; and he, in fact, does make my dreams come true. Herbie Hancock kills these categories with “Rockit” â€" a video that will requite me nightmares forever â€" which is exactly the kind of 1984-but occurrence that sets my middle aflutter.

0:45:53: Dan Aykroyd claims the next presenter is one of the few white people live who doesn’t dance like an “MIT brain-damaged physicist” and I’m going to demand to see the receipts.

0:46:00: The dance wunderkind is someone named Peter Wolf, some other blackness-haired rock clone. Pretty sure he dances, but the VMAs cleverly hide him in black-on-black wearable against a black backdrop. He’s presenting Best Choreography to "Thriller," patently, because the fabric of space and fourth dimension didn’t spontaneously unravel into chaos in 1984, simply before that he gives his ballerina partner a couple of kisses with a quick, “Kill yourself, Bette Midler.”

0:48:44: Anoint, the render of Diana Ross to take for MJ alongside Michael Peters, who choreographed "Thriller." Michael Peters thanks every backup dancer by proper name individually, and thanks MTV for recognizing dance equally an fine art form with the creation of this honour. Michael Peters is lovely.

0:49:35: A parade of people I would be friends with follows, from the bleached-blonde woman who appears to exist accidentally heiling Diana Ross, to the adult female with the massive pearl necklace who looks like she’d be having the worst time of her life if she ever had a good time to begin with, and this gal, whose neutral face and subtle lean I recognize as the true signs of a brutal gossip.

0:50:13: Bette Midler has appeared as a Who from Whoville to nowadays a special furnishings montage and she’s sporting a new bun that is somehow spinning without ripping all her hair out like in this video that still haunts my dreams.

0:51:00: This montage is every Snapchatter’south dream.

0:53:00: Missing Person’southward lead singer Dale Bozzio is revealed to be the time-traveling Lady Gaga from earlier! I have to say, my hopes were high when Dale Bozzio walked on with her magenta pilus and magenta mirrorball outfit…and Dale Bozzio delivered. She is off script and slurring in a plummy theater girl accent that would be INSANE fifty-fifty without the slurring. She’s thanking VJs and calling out second marriages. She’s claiming to have written her ain experimental speech with experimental words, but it’southward just a gesture? “I bet you said to yourselves, what was that all about? But you’re supposed to feel it. And if you lot did feel information technology…did you like it?” Dale Bozzio laughs alone at her own joke. Dale Bozzio is a fucking loose cannon. Dale Bozzio and I could be friends.

0:54:47: LOL. Dale Bozzio is still talking, but the production team cut her off. Dale!

0:56:28: Dale finally presents her laurels. “Oh, I’1000 and then happy. It’south Herbie Hancock.”

0:57:00: Despite Dale Bozzio’south ringing endorsement of Herbie Hancock, Lol Creme talks over Herbie through their acceptance spoken language. Lol Creme kinda sucks.

0:59:00: Huey Lewis & The News performs “I Want a New Drug” â€" HUGE saxophone solo.

1:02:39: Bette Midler is wearing a glitter rose veil, presumably to mark the offset of the shade portion of the plan. She and Dan Aykroyd read fake categories that are evidently shading popular videos from 1984. “Video Well-nigh Likely to Be Mistaken for a Bad Jeans Commercial” is harsh, “Most Obnoxious Apply of Winos or Pocketbook Ladies to Lend Urban Charm to a Low-Upkeep Video” is brutal, but “Least Entertaining Use of a Star’s Real Parent” is cold enough to brand the compressed air horn become off. (This woman, cry-laughing at “Best Utilise of Hairdressing As a Camouflage for Content” could exist my friend.)

one:06:45: Some other rock clone appears, and this fourth dimension I’m pretty certain he’s just really a video fox. Fellow clone Peter Wolf, stretched vertically in post. He presents Best Group Video to ZZ Top, some other band I’k not sure actually exists, and they confirm my suspicions by not appearing to take their accolade.

1:10:00: Armchair critic Mick Jagger appears on tape to talk about the outset of music videos, shouting out Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway before he introduces the Video Vanguard Award, the past now time-honored VMA tradition that has awarded figures from Michael Jackson to Beyoncé, and which this year is going to Rihanna. There are three winners of the outset Video Vanguard award. The not-Sting members of The Police present to The Beatles and their regular manager Richard Lester, and Herbie Hancock presents the honors to David Bowie.

1:14:34: No idea why they’re doing a Q&A in the audience in the middle of the Vanguard Award presentation, merely look at what a Ruffalo-esque cutie pie John Cougar Mellencamp was! I had no thought. He and his babely date have every bit ’80s pilus.

i:15:30: David Bowie streams in from London for a operation of his song “Blue Jean” â€" god, I miss David Bowie. “Blue Jean” isn’t my favorite David Bowie song, but 1984 is a great era for Bowie, with “Modern Love” and “China Girl” at the tiptop of the charts. He’s relaxed in this performance, and it’south maybe unfair to compare his looseness and his calm to Rod Stewart or Huey Lewis & The News â€" who, after all, are performing in a setting much bigger than the Soho club where Bowie recorded â€" simply his casual command of the stage and the photographic camera is what makes his piece of work timeless even 30 years later.

1:19:30: Dan Aykroyd introduces his friend and his managing director from movies similar Ghostbusters and Trading Places, John Landis. Cyndi Lauper is apparently a huge fan.

1:19:38: John Landis was hot. He’s here to present All-time Direction, and I’yard assuming there’due south a reason his own video “Thriller” is not eligible for this detail for a category? This whole ceremony is light on “Thriller,” to be honest. I understand that if the first VMAs were zippo but a ii-hour ode to “Thriller,” we might non take VMAs today, but it would have been a righteous choice on behalf of video art.

1:22:42: Whoa, WILD photographic camera, swooping upwards and over the crowd. LIVE avant-garde music television, babe! ZZ Top’south “Sharp Dressed Man” wins. As we’ve established, ZZ Tiptop is a made-up band, just the human being they’ve brought on to accept for them is charmingly unprepared…and and then the cameras cut to Diana Ross, Michael Jackson’s chosen replacement â€" sitting next to a woman who I think might be Cynthia Nixon? â€" and I’yard reminded what real rock stars wait like.

one:23:05: Dale Bozzio sighting.

1:23:22: The return of Rod Stewart! And so much screaming! He knows rock clone Ron Forest, who has allow down his ponytail. They do a bit hiding behind the podium and the audience actually cannot get enough. “I LOVE You!” from the audiences for Rod, simply just polite adulation for literal genius Quincy Jones. 1984, I see yous. Quincy Jones dedicates his honor to the tardily Count Basie.

1:29:56: The very ’80s named Fee Waybill appears and somewhat miraculously looks like someone named Fee Waybill. Fee Waybill is explaining the divergence betwixt ideas and concepts as a preamble to All-time Concept Video, which is somehow a distinguishable category from my girl Dale Bozzio’due south All-time Experimental Video? MTV is all nigh those large ideas, damn. According to Fee, “A concept is an idea, and and so some…Baton Joel and Christie Brinkley riding a motorcycle is an thought.” I encounter where this is going, Kanye and Kim riding a motorcycle are the concept, right? “Bound 2” is off the table, merely Herbie Hancock wins, and I imagine Kanye (and I know Dale Bozzio) approve.

ane:33:58: Costume change for Bette Midler! Her dress is made of creamsicle lace, shoulder pads that could stop a lineman; her hair is tied up in matching orange plastic wrap, and it requires no annotate because this is 1984 and MTV is all nearly those high concepts, bb! Bette delivers an ode to “a adult female who is everything she e'er dreamed a performer could be” and the crowd goes WILD for Tina Turner, which is by far the biggest and best audience reaction of the night.

ane:35:thirty: Tina Turner walks out from backside a massive MTV installation and RIPS into “What’s Love Got to Exercise With It?” â€" which, like, was that video eligible? I want a Tina Turner credence spoken communication. But at to the lowest degree she gets the night’s only standing ovation, as is but advisable.

i:39:27: In what seems similar an unscripted moment, Bette Midler’s mic catches her proverb “Oh, lighten up, volition you?” before a scripted patter between her and Dan Aykroyd. The silent battle rages on.

one:40:17: I learn from this montage almost new music that all of Bette Midler’s rat jokes have been about a band named Ratt. What is rock and roll, America?

i:forty:38: AH, SHEILA E SIGHTING!!! Did Sheila East have new music in 1984? According to the montage, apparently she was last year’s new artist? As well, where is Prince? 1984 is the twelvemonth of Purple Rain! Does that non count, since it came out as a movie?

1:41:21: Dan Aykroyd jokes, “I couldn’t accept my eyes off Ratt,” to screams of blessing from the audition. Bette Midler, hilariously, does non corroborate.

i:41:37: Dan Aykroyd is Canadian. It all makes sense now. Dan asks how he’d look in leather, and god bless her, it’s been a long night for Bette. She merely does not have the strength to answer that question, passing forth to leather queen Billy Idol. “I think you would expect adept in leatherm Dan. I recall everyone looks good in leather.” Yous tell them, Billy Idol.

ane:43:03: Close up on Billy Idol, and Baton Idol is the kickoff rocker in the room who I understand having groupies. That is some burn makeup, Billy. Billy is presenting the Voter’southward Choice Honour â€" “the simply existent choice in any election yous really get” â€" which naturally Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” wins. Diana Ross is back, which can only be a proficient matter.

one:45:56: John Landis’s “Thriller” acceptance spoken communication includes the almost relevant-to-me news of the night, which is that he just fabricated a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer, and she adores Baton Idol. Oh, Michelle, such good sense of taste.

1:46:07: Nina Blackwood entering late into the race to be my favorite VJ. Astonishing hair, girl. The camera pans to reveal Carly Simon, who is apparently an Amazon? (That Carly Simon’s hair is amazing should become without proverb.) Carly shouts out her kids Sally and Ben, which is very cute. I honey that Nina Blackwood is kind of camera shy; it’s so real, and that realness is one of the best things about this early VMAs circulate. Everyone is yet trying to effigy out how to do the whole video thing, and so there’south a kind of off-the-cuff roughness to everyone’due south transitions on and off camera. Cute!

1:47:sixteen: Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd share a doggie snack backstage, no doubt inspiring Crystal Connors and Nomi Malones everywhere. Just some other example of the iconic influence of the VMAs.

1:47:30: Duran Duran presents All-time Female Video in their all-time glam gear, including amazing frosted pink lipstick, and they very welcomingly nudge at the logic of the category they’re presenting. “Does anyone know the difference between male and female person videos?” Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Take Fun” wins, which is great considering it ways we go another Cyndi speech.

ane:fifty:16: “Boy, am I glad I won, otherwise this tiara would have looked awfully stupid!” Cyndi, opening her speech communication with some unintentional Lily Tomlin shade. Cyndi shouts out Michael Peters and thanks all her dancers and and so becomes the only person all night to thank her mom, who is in the audience, adorably.

1:51:55: ZZ Elevation has a live functioning! They are existent humans! Their beards are basically floor length! I would exist more excited virtually this if they weren’t coming at the end of the show! 1 of the models they bring on stage loses her shoe, which doesn’t seem 100 percent intentional, just information technology is definitely 100 per centum delightful.

1:55:35: Aw, cute! The whole audition has been given faux beards to vesture during the ZZ Peak performance. Peradventure this year anybody tin can go snakes in honor of the return of Britney Spears.

1:55:38: Lol. I like this one disguised lady, who is non paying attention to the performance at all. We could be friends.

1:55:49: Herbie Hancock is such a good sport. Madonna might be the MVP of the get-go VMAs, only Herbie Hancock is definitely Mr. Congeniality.

1:56:38: LOL Wait. CHER HAS BEEN IN THE Audience THE ENTIRE Show AND WE ARE JUST SEEING HER At present.

i:57:00: The Go-Go’s Belinda Carlisle and Kathy Valentine are presenting the last award of the night â€" truly bringing it home, because they were the kickoff people I decided I would exist friends with in 1984. Knowing who they are now, I retain my original assessment. They’re presenting Best Male Video, which goes to David Bowie’due south “China Girl.” Proving that even two total hours into an award evidence, y'all tin can nonetheless learn from TV, Iggy Pop comes onstage to have for Bowie, reminding the world and informing me that Bowie’s single was a cover.

one:59:00: Tragically, my copy of the VMA broadcast cuts before Best Video of the Year was somewhat inexplicably awarded to The Cars for their video “You Might Think,” but in the year that we lost David Bowie, it’s maybe nicer anyway to leave with the impression he crowned the start of MTV’s biggest night. That the man who fell to Earth would bring with him the start of a new era in music feels appropriate. Sayonara, David â€" until the side by side life.

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