Despite the actuality which Russell Brand is set to host the 2009 Video Music Awards, we’re still carrying difficulty mustering up anything imitative genuine unrestrained for the ceremony. That’s not to contend we’re not vehement to see which this year’s show will be promote live from Radio City Music Hall instead of a high-school gymnasium, similar to final year’s ceremony, but the toleration for the probable wish of saying a little arrange of luminary philharmonic go down is outweighed by the ubiquitous antipathy for MTV’s annual try to fake it still has a little emergence of strain cred. Also, how only does the network design us to give a rat’s donkey when Major Lazer didn’t even get any nominations? Well, we’ll discuss it you! The promotions organisation put together this thematically incongruous shave of a little of today’s many renouned artists — a little gifted (Taylor Swift, Ne-Yo), a little not (Katy Perry, Cobra Starship) — singing and dancing along to a fast rewritten chronicle of “Tonight” from the mythological low-pitched West Side Story. We’re only grateful which Leonard Bernstein isn’t alive to listen to what they’ve finished to his song. That said, if Russell Brand creates great on his guarantee from the strain to soak Lady Gaga during the show, afterwards we’ll really balance in.
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MTV Attempts to Pay Tribute to West Side Story With Ill-Conceived VMA Promo
