thank you billboard, for wasting my life
Somehow I fell into the trap of watching this year's Billboard music awards. I've never watched this show before. What's this? Well, I recognize Billboard - don't they make those charts everyone talks about? - hey, some bands I know are playing. Ok.
Over the course of 3 hours, this over-commercialized, sorry excuse for an award show (like the world needs another one) managed to:
- Censor Pink flipping off the camera while one of her dancers gives her mock-head,
- not censor Nicole Richie saying both "fuck" and "shit",
- present multiple awards to high-profile artists (among them 50 Cent, Chris Cornell) who didn't feel like wasting their time making an appearance,
- reinforce the conventional wisdom that Jessica Simpson received more helpings of tit than brain,
- present a "century award" in the year 2003, and
- mention Paris Hilton's sex video, but not R. Kelly's.
Way to go, guys. You make a quality product.
-e
Posted by eviljack in reality at December 15, 2003 01:20 AM