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She has yet to accomplish nonexistence. Isn't that the one we're all waiting for?
I couldn't even finish watching that trainwreck. It's obvious NO ONE on that stage wanted to be there, Britney included. Whose idea was that?
She's trying to make me feel better about my "career".
well, i for one am relieved that she killed her career before she killed her children. i guess.
I think the low point is at about -2:47, where one of the backup dancers has to help her scale about a two-foot step. At least she'll always have acting to fall back on.
I love Sarah Silverman. Jew broads are HOT!
The performance accomplished its purpose, at least from MTV's perspective. I haven't even been award of the VMA's existence for a good ten years, and I tuned in to watch her open the show. I kept it on for Sarah Silverman, but that was it (so maybe it wasn't all that effective if I didn't even make it to the first commercial break).
Please please please find the Sarah Silverman bit. I can't help it, I delight in human suffering.
I couldn't watch the whole thing either. She used to hop and trot like the grody jailbait trollop her handlers wanted her to be, but now she looks like she has trouble standing up straight for 2 minutes straight. Poor kid. It's sick what these showbiz parents get away with, and sick what all the producers and agents and 3rd parties allow. If I was directing a show with children in it, I'd fire the kid if the parents weren't feeding her right and getting her a proper education when the time permits. Britney shouldn't have had a career as a kid, for her own sake. Now what is she? The only way she can hop off this Anna Nicole train is to quit trying to be accepted, quit working, get some good therapy, and spend the rest of her life trying to get her shit together.
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You know how sometimes an actor will portray another race? Like Charlton Heston as a Mexican in Touch of Evil, Al Pacino's Puerto Rican character in Carlito's Way, or even the Charlie Chan movies... where the actor obviously doesn't look like the ethnicity they're trying to portray, but it's made all the more obvious because he's surrounded by actual authentic people of that ethnicity?
This is sort of like that. Why surround Britney, who is basically just walking around like she's looking for a missing sock, with dozens of accomplished dancers? Are they there just to hold her up? Every five or ten seconds she's being propped up or carried by someone. They magnify her lack of dance skills, rather than mask it.
sarah silverman is generally about as funny as a 4th grade bully. sarah silverman making fun of britbrit is about as funny as a 4th grade bully taunting an autistic kid. (which is to say NOT, for anyone who is confused.)
It's like they taught her the words to the song and the dance routine 20 minutes before she went on.
And the look on 50 Cent's face... priceless.
She has no dignity left! Apparently she has no gross motor control left either!
She looks about as happy as the women shooting ping pong balls in Patpong. Me thinks should took a little something to relax. Some record exec got way too anxious about a release in November and forced her into performing live before she rehearsed enough.
They should have cut to the vultures perched just offstage. I kind of admired that she's publicly rebelling against people who don't care what happens to her if they get a return. She's not bright, but she seems to have figured out more than loads of people before her. She's headed for irrelevance, but it's sort of on her own white trash terms.
Carollani @8. You can find Sarah S.'s bit on the MTV Video Music Awards website. I just watched it. Not sure of the link, but easy to find on google.
Sarah is funny. But, it annoys me that Sarah makes fun of women like Britney and Paris. What about making fun of the men who use women and/or violence to sell their music. Justin had strippers at his party, wtf? 50 Cent is famous for being shot at. Uhm, Britney and Paris might sleep around but so do the men.
Can you say Oxycodone?
Silverman bombed last night. EVERYBODY sucks at the VMA. Britney blew chunks, but her backup dancers and production team were pretty great. Shame about the drunk puppet at center stage.
Looks like the only thing Criss Angel made disappear was Britney's talent.
(crack attributed to Brian G in the tech shack)
What's strange about Britney's performance is that despite the major slow-motion, she knew all the moves, but was just doing them at quarter-speed. I was fully expecting her to forget them halfway through.
@4: You are totally right. I was a fan of Sarah Silverman's for a while and saw her at the Showbox recently. She wasn't funny then either. If anyone had a career takedown at the VMAs it was her, not Britney. I thought B. walking around in boots was more interesting that Silverman's act.
Here is Sarah Silverman humiliating Paris Hilton at the MTV awards the day paris went to Jail. Sarah is so so mean, and just look at Paris Hilton squirm as the entire audience laughs at her (camera focuses on the poor bitch)
Re 17: There was one redeeming moment - I happened to flip the show on and discover Foo Fighter's covering "California Uber Alles." I fucking ate it up...
17. The VMA sucks in general. It promises too much, and even in the few cases where they can fool people into thinking they delivered, every moment is artificial, stilted, even moreso than you expect a rehearsed stage show to be. The fact that they ahve to hire a crowd to cheer and dance in a mosh pit to simulate the sense that what we're watching is fun says it all.
I don't have MTV these days, and can't say I feel bad about missing last night's show. Or any year's award shows.
may britney spears know happiness.
I love Sarah Silverman, but that was kind of a lame bit..... Did anyone here that guy yell out "You're ugly!" during the beginning? No one talks about my girlfriend like that!! Even if she did suck that night.
I think the funniest thing about the whole bit (which I didn't watch all the way through either - I'm going to savor that two minutes of unwasted time!) was that someone thought the pretext of shoving a wireless mic pack down the back of Brit's bikini-bottom (talk about an award's show fashion feaux-pax!) would actually convince people that she was SINGING - FOR REAL! - and not just doing a bad lip-sync, which was clearly the case.
And for those of you dissing on Sarah S., just remember, all the wingers thought Stephen Colbert "bombed" at the White House Correspondents' Dinner a couple of years ago too. As Steve Martin said many, many years ago, "comedy is NOT pretty!"
Is Sarah Silverman in some sort of 2007 VMA Celebrity Slaughter time-warp?
Because I'd have sworn it was the VMAs at which she skewered Paris back in June.
clausti: Sarah is way funnier than a bully taunting a retard. Which is says saying something because taunting retards is hilarious!
Colbert did not bomb. Sarah did. Colbert was pure genious at that dinner. I have no problems with mean dark comedy. Sarah was simply just not funny and her timing was lousy. Her last good appereance was at the Pam Anderson roast. Sarah gets a pass because people want to like her, but her 15 minutes are up. You want funny and real insult comedy? Check out lisa lampanelli. sarah is dried up.
...hmm?
"Not funny" is the new "actually quite funny". Defending washed up thicko celebs from people being mean to them is new "fucking lame".
I'd much rather have Sarah Silverman tell it how it is straight to my face than have a flock of condescending prigs whisper how worried they are for me behind my back.
If Britney bombed she bombed. It's actually not the end of the world, and having a comedian crack jokes about you isn't the end of the world either. It isn't a crime against humanity to suck at the MTV music awards.
Aren't you the same crowd who wanted to send Tom Cruise to federal prison for life because he jumped up and down on Oprah's couch?
uh...WOW!
It truly is awe-inspiring to see a career ending performance.
I've seen the Salina Kansas Junior High Girls Show Choir do a more polished performance.
Admittedly, I'm no connoisseur of female dance/pop singers, but what made this performance worse than any other in the genre?
#34: No energy. If you saw any of Britney's dance moves circa 2000, you'd definitely see the difference. She was an amazing dancer back then. Huge energy, ripped body, tons of charm. Fast-forward to the VMAs: no energy, no connection with the audience, no singing...she was literally just going through the motions. (People have been teasing about her body, but I maintain that if she brought a ton of energy to the performance, it wouldn't have mattered much.
In the end, Britney's career ended when she smashed her kneecap during a video shoot in 2002. Since her act really depends on her dancing ability, it was all downhill from there.
Seriously, "Showgirls" is now sexier than Britney Spears. In fact she was so bad, she couldn't even be in "Showgirls".
Re 23: Sorry, I meant "Holiday in Cambodia"
Wish Serj had kicked the glass out of at least one of those Sunset Tan chicks swaying to Holiday in Cambodia. There are maybe 4 people in that room who if you said Dead Kennedys wouldn't start talking about how much they admire Jackie O. Not a clue who Pol Pot is.
I'd respect the Foos for this, but the other clips look like they're just playing the game. Hat tip to Serj.
Watching Silverman follow Brit just made me uncomfortable. The near silence she got from the audience made it worse. I'm not a fan of either woman, but bringing someones babies into it? Ugh.
It was all just a slow motion train wreck. I'm just happy I flipped back later and caught Chris Brown's dance routine. That was pretty friggin' awesome! That should have opened the show!
Jello for Mayor!
@33, are you from that town? i actually grew up there before moving to seattle, so i know what you're talking about. and i agree...
I defy any of you to prove that MTV still exists in 2007.
I actually think Brit's paunch looks rather hot...She looks like an actual female and not some neurotic aerobicized fembot. I even sorta like the song. If she had just, you know, owned her body while onstage and not looked so scared/drugged/clumsy it might have been cool.
Also, did anyone else notice that all the male dancers onstage with her were dead ringers for Justin Timberlake? Is she projecting regrets or leftover yearnings of some kind? The answer is yes.
Britney was always a pop culture spectre. When has a real artist ever had to dry-hump an audience in see-through clothes? It was never, ever about her artistic ability. It was about 'don't-you-want-to-fuck-my-young-wet-ripe-pussy?'. And millions of drooling fans and wannabees bought it. Britney will never have to work another day in her life.
So given this, are we surprised at her fall from grace? All it took was a few years of age, a few errors in judgment, and a couple of kids and she's no longer what she was. She's gone - in the public's eye - from wet-and-ripe to tainted skank - at 25!
You can't be a burlesque queen forever, y'know.
... you can still see it at MTV.com _if_ you're coming from a US provider. Sadly, in Canada you just get a message saying that copyright prevents them from showing it.
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you this Halloween's most popular and anticipated costume for overweight gay men: Britney Spears, 2007 VMA-Style.
I'm looking for my Beadazzler as I type!
What a bunch of humorless cunts in attendance at those awards. The VMAs have been pottymouth snarkfests that rival any roast for years and years. It's been the only reason to tune in really.
It's all fun and games until you unleash Sarah Silverman on them. Everyone starts shitting bricks, crossing their fingers that she doesn't put them on blast.
She's seemingly dying up their and it's probably the only time you'll ever be right to take the audience to task for the comic on stage not killing.
If Sarah makes you uncomfortable then you get it. If she makes whatever you're drinking come out your nose then you get it and you're not your parents yet.
Wow! Britney acted like she was either really drugged out, couldn't walk in the heels she was wearing, or dancing like she wanted to be bad on purpose. Maybe it was all three. Who really cares if she can't do the lipsyncing. If we are at a point in entertainment when the entertainer is actually lipsyncing, it is pretty bad anyway. Why, back when I was a kid entertainers *cough* milli vanilli *cough* were ostracized for lip syncing. How this shite even passes for singing is beyond me. oops I did it again!
I only wish she had Acted a hell of a lot more confident... I thought she looked "healthy"! This poor gal has been proverbially passed 'round and fucked by this generation's media whores- she's all caught up in the storm of shit we call entertainment.
To be heavier on top is sexier in this day and age, and as a "well grounded" gal, I can do nothing about it, 'cept be confident as can be with my Crumb-esque thighs. HollaHollaback.
Sarah Silverman gets a pass from horny young men who think she's hot (for a Jew) and more balls than they do. But shocking does not equal funny.
The whole audience was silent, not because she insulted Britney's kids but because she was embarrassingly bad.
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