My first VMAs were filled with controversy, free beer, making fun of other people’s fashion sense, and awesome live performances.
But let me back up a lil. I invited my boy Gabe from MTV to Rock the Bells at Jones Beach a few months ago and told him that I wanted to go to the VMAs. Last minute, he decided he couldn’t make it to Rock the Bells, and I jokingly said I still wanted to go to the VMAs. It was kind of ambiguous leading up to the weekend, but he said he’d hook me up if I could. Saturday night, I got a BBM from Gabe. He told me I had, not one, but TWO tickets to the VMAs. How could I say no?
Immediately, I sent out a text to 10 or so good friends and my gal Abbi responded first.
The only concern after that was what to wear. After consulting Gabe, he suggested I wear something “casual chic”, so I went with this. I look good…right?
As soon as I roll up Radio City, I get the royal treatment and get escorted past the police blockade and head right in. And what’s the first thing I do when I get in? I take a Twitpic of the empty stage from the third mezzanine, so everyone in Twietnam could see how ridic the production was gonna be.
Aside from the over-the-top production, I mainly was there to see Wale run the house band. My buddy Jesse from SoundCtrl is his agent, so I threw him a text to see where he was at. I was trying to chill since we had some time to kill. A few drinks later and surprisingly bumping into some friends, Abbi and I sit down at our seats ready for the show to begin.
I won’t bother you will the details because I’m sure you all already saw it. I just gotta tell you, I loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but I DO NOT think Russell Brand is funny at all on top of the fact that you can’t understand anything he says, so he was a horrible pick for the host. Wale shoulda been host. He was killin it from the side stage cracking jokes at everyone from Madonna to Lady Gaga.
Now, the other issue at hand is the whole Kanye thing. I was tweeting something and then all of a sudden Abbi hits me and goes, “What the fuck is going on?!?!?!?!? Kanye is on stage!”
Abbi’s a comedian with Upright Citizens Brigade, so naturally I thought she was fucking with me, but she wasn’t, which launched me into an intense debate as to why this happened:
- Was it staged?
- Was he drunk and/or on drugs?
- Was it a publicity stunt?
- Is he just completely fucked in the head? (side note: his hair looks like crop circles)
When I tweeted about my confusion, Gabe responded that it wasn’t planned. However, he did drink a whole bottle of Hennessey, so I was sorta right. And then I saw his interview on Leno, which confirmed that he WAS crazy:
After that, I sipped on my free Heinekens and enjoyed the rest of the show. However, just as I was beginning to forget what I had witnessed, EVERYONE was booing whenever Kanye’s name was mentioned or he was up for an award and screaming shit like , “Fuck you Kanye!” or “Kanye! You fucking asshole”, which made for an extremely hysterical evening.
At the end of the show, I remembered how insane Pink’s performance and Beyonce’s light show were. And then there was all the free beer, which made the aerodynamic stunts crazier and the lights brighter, so I had a great time for all of you guys and gals who couldn’t make it (or couldn’t sneak in). THANKS GABE!!!
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