I realize that the VMAs, and award shows in general, have largely lost relevance, and obviously none of us here are the target audience, but still…
For one thing, why is this thing held on September 11, in New York of all things..? That’s just bizarre timing to me, and surely it’s not coincidental.
Beyond that, though, they’ve shown a bunch of flashbacks to actually good performances from before everything turned to woke shit, and man, it’s like an entirely different world, in terms of quality…
Hard to believe that this is what passes for (extremely globalized - half of it is “Latin” and K-Pop) both “entertainment” and “pop culture” at this point.
It’s like a four-hour ghetto-worship ritual, lol.
Seeing/hearing them ruin fucking “Fly Away” by Lenny Kravitz, which was one of my favourite songs at one point, is pretty much the shit-cherry on the top of this pile of manure, I guess…
/endrant
And this is why I mostly listen to game OSTs or phonk music.
Also rap is getting SO overplayed for me, I'm even hating on the rap covers they do like for the new CoD trailers they have a rap version of Breathe by Prodigy, it's just getting so annoying that having a few words but heavy beat is escapism from it.
Extremely relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOI2eqXL3ek
Fortunately despite everything else being fucked with, seems games companies KNOW not to skimp out on the music for their games.
Even Rockstar, despite it's fallen state, knows not to make a lame track with it's updates
For all the memes about being a dead game for so long and drip feeding DLC skins and filler content Payday 2 and now 3 are very much like this. Not that I'm going to bother with 3 any time soon and I haven't played 2 in a long time now. But the music was incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsH3lcJHT84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68vj5MGUQ3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewm9Coee3U0
The comments aren't wrong.
These celebrities truly do enjoy sniffing their own farts.
“I’m the GOAT, y’all, and I know it.”
No, no you’re not. Fuck off back to the ghetto, scum.
No way I could sit through the entirety of this bullshit…
I'm sure it's about as woke-infected as any other awards in entertainment. You can't even make the cut for nomination if your movie is not "diverse" enough, which means the only content allowed to win is turbo woke crap.
Somehow though, despite the degradation of culture, people are still pushing the boundaries of musicianship. There are mind blowing musicians alive right now; for instance, this Matteo Mancuso kid is widely believed to be one of the best guitarists ever, humbling professional players more than twice his age. https://youtube.com/shorts/48d-SXGT82k?si=vql7sLnMdyggMxRJ
They were running constant commercials for it. Everytime it ran I knew around three announced name. Guess I'm an old man now.
VMA is gay, don't even waste your time with having it as background music.
Sure OK. Just admit it, you're a faggot.