The World Cup is here!
The games begin this Friday but there will be an Opening Concert tomorrow at 2pm with a few artists.
ESPN and Univision will be airing it.
And now…this World Cup’s Anthem…. 
AMA 2009
*I would put all of the videos but you know how it is with Dick Clark Productions. All the videos were up and running immediately after the Awards were done. Now they are being taken off because of a copyright claim. Oh boy, It’s not even like they are going to put the crap on DVD to sell them to us. And It’s also not like they are going to repeat the awards. So what the hell’s the problem? Get with the program.
The American Music Awards were pretty good yesterday. They had a lot of great artists performing so I was definitely looking forward to it yesterday. Here’s what I thought.
Janet Jackson was first to perform. She was doing a bunch of her hit songs. Eh, It was alright. I think I would’ve gotten into it more if she had a different outfit. I was just thinking the whole time “What’s with the peasant look?” The dancers had what looked like cheap potato sacks as shirts on. They looked waaay too earthy to be on stage. 
I don’t know …wasn’t feeling it much. Too much brown beige and fatigue green going on. She looked too baggy in all of the wrong places. She has great songs though so it wasn’t so bad.
I’ll tell you whose performance concept was bad.
Alicia Keys
Wow, wackness. First of all I’m not into the whole super hero thing she came up with to go along with this song. I think it’s such a ridiculously cheesy attempt at trying to do something interesting or out of the ordinary for her that it just falls flat.
I was not feeling that chain jacket btw.
In this performance nothing made sense. There’s this brick wall in the middle of the stage out of nowhere, She and the dancers were dancing in front of it the whole time when they probably would’ve been better off moving around the whole stage, and as they are doing these sets of like, reggae dancing that has nothing to do with the vibe of the song, this dude climbs on top of the brick wall behind them and is like trying to dance but keep his balance at the same time? What was that? Towards the end of the song he finally gets down and dances with her, but it’s all weird.
Ok I realize I am taking up too much space on her….you get the point.
Shakira
I thought Shakira’s performance was good. It was cute, and pretty simple which is what she does so good for her. I can’t lie. Despite this I was pretty disappointed because I know she can do cooler stuff than this but I don’t think she was trying to wow the audience and make this awesome performance.
She was just there to do a little dance and sing alittle song. Now that everyone’s so intent on pushing the envelope or reinventing themselves in someway It’s kind of refreshing to watch Shakira.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga’s was very good. I am starting to see how she works on stage. Do a dance number then do the piano thing. That was cool. I definitely liked the blinking rib…thingy she had on. Not much else to say about her.
JLo
JLo came back,and unfortunately busted her ass a little bit.
Come on, so what? She’s a person. You are bound to slip up on a performance or two. It was pretty obvious though. She tried her best to hide it.
Anyway, I thought the boxing theme was cheesy. Sorry. I am kinda happy she is back but I gotta be honest. It was kind of cute once I got over that.
The song was ok but why Louboutins and why do I have to hear that about twenty times in the hook? The shoes are very nice. Louboutins are great but I’m just saying…it’s a recession. After a while that got annoying. Too bad because the sound itself is nice.
Not too bad, but not her best. For a comeback, not much to it.
Rihanna
She did what she always does. She’s never been one to give amazing performances with all the theatrics and things like that. She looked great. I love her outfit.
I love that her little jacket was shooting out lasers.
Her boots were cool and thankfully she picked the songs that she did because I certainly did not want to hear russian roulette. I like it but it’s a bit of a downer.
ADAM LAMBERT
He put the guy’s head all up in his Crotch. I don’t know why I wasn’t expecting it. I kinda laughed out of shock but also because I was happy he was doing it. He was like sticking it to the anti gays in the country which did make me a little happy inside.
“You Don’t like it? Too damn bad!”
His voice sounded great as usual. I did notice his voice was not as great on like two points in the song but it’s Adam Lambert. Any other singer would be lucky to have his “kinda crappy vocal day”.
He fell too but you really couldn’t notice. He made it look intentional, as if he was trying to do a drop/roll kind of thing. Nice Save!
He made out with the keyboardist guy. He touched a few ladies inappropriately too. LOL.
It was pretty good. It definitely was memorable for better or worse depending on who you talk to. I just thought that because of all that was going on you couldn’t really hear his voice.
I guess we will have plenty of time to listen to his amazing voice. His album, I believe it came out today.
That’s all I had to comment on so til next time.
