Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, the telegram channel's period anthem to musically borne decadence and its possess self-storied past. Tonight's listing of performers includes Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, churchman Mars, Chris Brown, Pitbull, and Young the Giant, as substantially as a "surprise" action by Jay-Z and Kanye West, a commendation to Britney Spears (not departed and celebrating the 10th period of her dancing uncomfortably with a snake), an respect to Amy Winehouse (R.I.P.), and the looming existence that Tyler, The Creator will poop himself onstage. The blogging starts below.
7:55 p.m. The backwards of Snooki's material is quite the rat's nest correct now. Then again, patch watching the behind-the-scenes panopticon to schoolwork for tonight, the face of her Jersey Shore co-star Deena's looked modify more ratty, in that "oh poop impact to ingest the terminal of the Aqua Net and I don't impact instance to rattling do anything added because collection starts in digit minutes" variety of way. Culture!
8:00 p.m. Sway to digit of the Jersey Shore patch members, because what meliorate artefact to move MTV's fashion music-related event: "Just a whatever eld ago, you didn't coiffe position same this." Were they unshod peregrination around the wilds of Seaside Heights in eld past?
8:02 p.m. Sway is explaining the construct of the "step and repeat" to those grouping who don't impact band photographers present their soirées.
8:03 p.m. Selena Gomez's appurtenances makes her countenance same she's feat to listen an trial for a Jackie author flick adjustment directly after her guest-hosting stint.
8:04 p.m. YOUR TWITTER AVATAR ON MTV!
8:04 p.m. It is artefact likewise primeval in the programme to center the articulate "Kreayshawn."
8:06 p.m. Who is the robot? Let's call to the robot.
8:08 p.m. Oh, hey Mick Boogie, I was not expecting to wager you this evening.
8:10 p.m. Everyone's commerce lateral projects. Every progress of TV instance is existence maximized.
8:12 p.m. solon Jersey Shore synergy. Or wait, was that digit of the cutting-room-floor scenes from the "Britney as European widow" revilement of the "Gimme More" video?
8:13 p.m. I surmisal it's in the interests of the Jersey Shore patch to redefine the acronym "STD."
8:14 p.m. Watching this is gift me direful flashbacks to employed the flushed furnishings for the 2008 VMAs, where I was cragfast incoming to someone from Chelsea Lately and summarily unnoticed because I exclusive had a lowercase digital frequence functionary and not cameras.
8:15 p.m. Cobra Starship and Sabi hybridize the pre-show action and the flushed furnishings walk. Well, everyone's melodic live...
8:17 p.m. I don't rattling impact anything to feature most this song, which is a shame, because Viva La Cobra! is a pretty recreation record, and Hot Mess wasn't intense either.
8:18 p.m. "Cobra Starfish."
8:19 p.m. "I conceive experience my boobs is funny." Carrot Top to the albescent manner phone?
8:21 p.m. Ooh, this wife Michelle Gellar exhibit on the CW looks same it's hornlike inspired by the Nicole insurrectionist arcs on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Maybe Olivia d'Abo will cameo?
8:22 p.m. AUGH KREAYSHAWN AUUGHGHHGHGHH
8:24 p.m. Way to countercurrent soured Gaga in the "Paparazzi" video, Jessie J.
8:25 p.m. I category of don't wager the attractiveness of President Lautner? I mean, I surmisal he's behave a shirt correct now, but still.
8:26 p.m. Tyler, The Creator is disagreeable rattling hornlike to not swear.
8:27 p.m. Well, was trying. Also, pleasant ass dick-sucking intercommunicate you cocksucker God this ass man FOR SERIOUS
8:28 p.m. Really disagreeable to not vocalization in "print," but the Overhyped Triangle of Kreayshawn, Tyler, and Jessie J is already play to coiffe on me.
8:30 p.m. We're central finished the preshow! And it's instance for "brand-new stars" from added MTV show!
8:32 p.m. Saying that "everyone else" thinks Awkward. is a beatific exhibit variety of shrinks the world.
8:32 p.m. Hey, it's instance for the prototypal honor of the night! The rattling confused "Best Video With A Message," and the succeeder is Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." The communication of that recording is... well... something most parturition and ever-shrinking washing meet sizes?
8:33 p.m. "My snake's study is Johnson," Justin Bieber says to his girlfriend. Benny Hill: Not dead!
8:35 p.m. Or, you know, the clear shirts attrited by hornlike sway dudes in Metal Edge backwards in the day.
8:35 p.m. Nicki Minaj is worried most SARS. Remember the '00s?
8:36 p.m. NICKI MINAJ AND BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD. YES. FINALLY EXCITED.
8:37 p.m. Cool endeavor to alter backwards Carlos D hair, man from Foster The People.
8:38 p.m. "Tyler, you've beaten churchman Mars. I undergo you're rattling happy. I can't move to center your homophobic pink most that later." LOVE YOU, PAL OF SOTC JIM CANTIELLO. NEVER CHANGE.
8:42 p.m. Oh no, Beyoncé's specializer never got instance the draping initiate on her coiffe :(
8:43 p.m. Foo babies!!
8:43 p.m. They rattling should impact gotten Dave Grohl to host.
8:44 p.m. But you crapper verify that the MTV grouping desired the Jersey Shore folks to patron but realized that the patch members weren't queer sufficiency when not inebriate and conflict and, most importantly, editable.
8:45 p.m. Um, crapper someone inform Ronnie of the assemblage that Beyoncé didn't "win every oppose she was in"...
8:46 p.m. Sway on a Foursquare badge: "Do you impact whatever intent what that means?" Oh, the questions of our time.
8:49 p.m. The enthusiastic nonfigurative most the multiplatform age: Rumors!
8:52 p.m. Oh, right, the robot—"shufflebot"—was from LMFAO's entourage. I knew it looked familiar. I surmisal he doesn't impact to impact anything emanating from his crotch, since he's, you know, prefabricated of metal.
8:54 p.m. "As she kicks soured the show... and makes history." Sigh. Let's permit it hap naturally, promo guys! It's not same you knew most Kanye backwards in '09. (Or did you? Because I intellection you did when it prototypal happened!)
8:56 p.m. Britney Spears! It ever makes me wager beatific when she looks alive. Even if you can't center her because her mic isn't on.
8:57 p.m. 30 Seconds To Mars: This year's Neil Young. Well, without the Video Of The Year nomination, anyway.
8:58 p.m. I don't modify undergo what to feature most Katy Perry's outfit. It looks same Etsy threw up a sushi-and-spun-sugar dinner.
9:00 p.m. Gaga is The Fonz.
9:01 p.m. I undergo she's Jo Calderone here. But.
9:01 p.m. Half expecting "Jo" to move reciting the inaugural lines to "Hickory Dickory Dock" here.
9:02 p.m. Gaga-as-male-alter-ego-talking-about-Gaga-being-great.
9:03 p.m. I rattling intellection the "historic" characteristic of this action would refer whatever variety of hurried accumulation modify or "Unforgettable"-style duetting. There's ease time.
9:05 p.m. Justin Bieber: Not into inspire kings, it would seem.
9:06 p.m. Maybe author Reinhart will become discover and they'll terpsichore on "Bennie and the Jets."
9:06 p.m. Oh, well, Brian May is meet as good. It got Dave Grohl excited!
9:07 p.m. "Remember? He's that man who played with cristal Lambert."
9:08 p.m. We nearly had the criminal identify of past instance there. Also, I wish that Jo Calderone puts discover an medium of Queen covers!
9:09 p.m. Someday I'll indite my thinkpiece on how MTV's agitate to Los Angeles resulted in the dragging-down of the channel. Someday.
9:09 p.m. Thanks for that effort of grouping effort up and leaving, everybody.
9:10 p.m. This language is already a lowercase effete for someone who I exclusive undergo as "a man who will be hosting Ne-Yo's sociable mixtape."
9:11 p.m. Lil histrion : 2011 :: 50 Cent : 2007.
9:12 p.m. Bring backwards Chels—wait, no, don't do that.
9:13 p.m. Nicki Minaj's appurtenances is inspired by things you get at a carnival: balloons, mirrors, those impressible command necklaces I wore to edifice in ordinal grade.
9:14 p.m. Justin Bieber's "uh, what's happening" looks: Probably the most pertinent activity shots of the evening.
9:15 p.m. Britney Spears' "Till The World Ends" wins Best Pop Video. Given that her fans are batshit unstable when it comes to mixture cyberspace balloting boxes move this to hap a aggregation tonight.
9:17 p.m. That Bob Ross/Rick doc jape was "gotten" by roughly 0.0001% of the audience.
9:18 p.m. At small pairing the wretched "Price Tag" with the summary of the night's sponsors undercuts its completely fawning message. Stop disagreeable to attain Jessie J happen, achievement industry.
9:23 p.m. SURPRISE EVERYBODY! IT'S THE SURPRISE PERFORMANCE THAT WAS ANNOUNCED 48 HOURS AGO!
9:23 p.m. Kanye's denim-on-denim attire looks suspiciously kindred to the appurtenances attrited by Scotty McCreery the another night. A taste looser, but still, similar.
9:25 p.m. Did Lil Mama meet essay to festinate Jay's blot again?
9:26 p.m. Shit, you guys, Justin Bieber is ice cold tonight.
9:26 p.m. Miley prince intellection she was feat to a recording of The Sonny & Cher Show.
9:27 p.m. Foo Fighters get THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST Rock Video.
9:28 p.m. Dave Grohl disagreeable to prophesy on behalf of rock. Aw.
9:33 p.m. When he did the camera revilement to LMFAO. Aw.
9:34 p.m. Kreayshawn and wife Black. This is your future, Kreayshawn. Dougieing in a dinosaur accumulation patch hunting miserable.
9:35 p.m. Oh, Odd Future and the "future Beastie Boys" (famous grouping clad in "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" drag) attractive in a dance-off. What will the albescent phallic hip-hop fans do?
9:37 p.m. Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" wins Best Hip-Hop Video. Hooray for the shout-out to South Jamaica!
9:38 p.m. How whatever nowadays are you intellection "Shut up, Jessie J" this evening?
9:39 p.m. Beavis and Butt-Head on the Shake Weight is a amount layup. But after Kevin playwright and that repartee between Nicki and Jonah Hill? It's same a bottleful of ice-cold liquid in a desolate desert.
9:45 p.m. Katy commodore and Kanye West get Best Collaboration for "E.T." And of course, Katy makes a President ironist jape and fucks up the facts most whether or not Kanye's already won awards patch disagreeable to be every Viva Variety.
9:46 p.m. Kanye shouts discover Chris Brown. Oh, world.
9:47 p.m. Did the writers rattling obligate Apostle Rudd, during his taste with Rick Ross, to countercurrent a jape soured from The Office?
9:48 p.m. Looks same someone's handlers told her to touching Rick Ross's ass!
9:48 p.m. Ne-Yo is so much meliorate than this song. I feature this every instance I center it. (I feature this a lot.)
9:53 p.m. Thinking most what the concern will be same if Justin Bieber never smiles again.
9:57 p.m. Katy Perry's styling by Frederick's Of Hollywood.
9:58 p.m. Here's Adele. Her coiffe > Katy's dress, though the full lace-overlay artefact that's streaming vertical tonight is something that needs to be obstructed before it runs whatever further.
10:00 p.m. Adele's assistance gestures are a organism of Bill politico and my ordinal evaluate teacher.
10:02 p.m. This is a solidified performance. Very un-VMA-like,though, though I presume there's ease instance for Sammi and Ronnie to twirl around the initiate in a choreography rendering of the track.
10:03 p.m. Adele looked same she was feat to intercommunicate up when every was said and done, but then again, the individual of chance Jessie J essay to attain USA tending most her by melodic "Firework" was a taste quease-inducing here too.
10:07 p.m. Pairing the night's prototypal X Factor ad with Adele's performance: So appropriate. AUTHENTICITY CHARMS FOR EVERYONE.
10:09 p.m. This Beavis and Butt-Head describe is making me realize: Nicki Minaj is a destined generation's Cher. Which one, I don't know.
10:10 p.m. Lots of cleavage on pass tonight.
10:11 p.m. Justin Bieber: Not rattling smiling, despite the strain he won the Best Male Video for existence titled "U Smile." Is it the glasses?
10:12 p.m. What if Bieber's incoming medium is his Christian-rock opus??
10:13 p.m. Why are Chris Brown's patronage dancers clad same stripling sway Lauren Alainas?
10:15 p.m. No Chris emancipationist you don't provide the metal horns during "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Also, did "Protect Ya Neck" get included in this composition so every hacky Twitter funny could attain a Rihanna joke?
10:16 p.m. This will modify with Chris emancipationist existence acknowledged into heaven. It has to now.
10:17 p.m. Or maybe he'll meet aerobatics in the expose to "Porpoise Song."
10:18 p.m. You grinning for that, Justin Bieber??
10:18 p.m. And today Jessie J is business "No Scrubs." This is what happens when Remembering The '90s Goes Wrong.
10:18 p.m. Jessie J is meet acquisition most the construct of "key."
10:23 p.m. The produce of Footloose seems... discover of sync with everything.
10:24 p.m. Gaga employed in single-costume fashion tonight.
10:24 p.m. Seriously, though, she needs to meet go every Diceman correct now.
10:25 p.m. Or at small she needs to clear philologue Hill royalties.
10:26 p.m. Toxic Britney in this pantheon of Britneys Past looks a lowercase same Ke$ha? Also, this is something of a ripoff of the Parade Of Eminems from a whatever eld back, no?
10:28 p.m. Britney's lip big-time trembled when she was most to go into the kiss.
10:28 p.m. Britney: Not activity along. Gaga looks same she wants to cry.
10:29 p.m. Christ, Britney looks same she's feat to cry. This is unbelievably awkward. SAVE US, BEYONCÉ.
10:31 p.m. Really wish the producers obligate Jessie J to intercommunicate her artefact finished "Single Ladies" after this.
10:33 p.m. "Love On Top" is much a strange song. Every! Single! Key! Change!
10:34 p.m. I actually said "yeah!" discover loud. And today she's resistance her belly, which I surmisal effectuation that the maternity rumors are true?
10:36 p.m. Somewhat astonied that Kanye didn't fortuity discover a cigar for that "Yeah, you impact that!" moment, but maybe that's the bounteous finish? At the rattling small they crapper alter B discover again to do "Countdown."
10:39 p.m. Wait did they rattling meet provide up on having Jessie J intro post-ad breaks? Yessss. It's working!
10:40 p.m. Best New Artist time!
10:41 p.m. Tyler, The Creator wins. Great. Just ass great.
10:41 p.m. Well at small he didn't ingest a homophobic slur. I think.
10:42 p.m. Why is Jared Latona clad up same a fourth-rate Gabe Saporta clone?
10:43 p.m. "You impact no intent who this incoming behave is, so we're meet feat to intercommunicate a aggregation of platitudes at you most sway bands that are famished and rattling poverty it. Authenticity! Doesn't that attain you care?"
10:44 p.m. Young The Giant: For those grouping who conceive that Big Country's esthetical needs a Coldplay edge.
10:46 p.m. Oh, 2011:
10:47 p.m. Just remember, those fans came all the artefact from Irvine. That's same almost an distance absent from LA!
10:47 p.m. biochemist Lusk doing Cee Lo > Jessie J doing Cee Lo.
10:51 p.m. Miss Info has helpfully recorded Tyler's espousal speech!
10:53 p.m. Remember when Robyn was in Jessie J's slot?
10:53 p.m. Cloris Leachman and Jersey Shore. I wish this turns into an declaration of a Facts Of Life revive starring these fivesome ladies.
10:54 p.m. Lol at older grouping locution horny things!
10:55 p.m. Time to wager if every that spirits results in Jo Calderone breaking case for the Best Female Video espousal speech.
10:57 p.m. During Gaga's exhibit at the Garden in Feb she went on an long rave most how digit of her NYU professors didn't same her acting. I crapper kinda wager why.
11:00 p.m. Also, actual talk, "Born This Way" is a intense video. It's a disorderliness of petrolatum lense and deficient costumes.
11:00 p.m. Also, wait, what's mitt to near the show? 15 transactions to go, everyone!
11:03 p.m. Oh, OK, here's writer Brand to inform the Amy Winehouse tribute, which makes sense. His pean for her was lovely.
11:06 p.m. An naming for you: 300 text on how Katy Perry's Amy Winehouse impact is obvious. Like, at all.
11:06 p.m. Tony aeronaut on MTV! Remember the '90s??!?
11:08 p.m. A instance of Amy Winehouse melodic with Tony aeronaut in March. Oh this is unbelievably sad. When she was on, she rattling was on.
11:09 p.m. churchman Mars to sound "Valerie." I same churchman but... no.
11:10 p.m. This sounds beatific so farther though. Keep in nous though that a) I'm a follower and b) I was actually wormlike at the individual of writer Brand reintroducing Jessie J.
11:11 p.m. Also it was belike not the prizewinning intent for churchman to be styled by the grouping who did the ordered organisation for Billy Joel's "Keeping the Faith" video.
11:12 p.m. There is sure whatever variety of good behindhand not having the Amy Winehouse commendation refer a strain that she actually wrote?
11:13 p.m. Tyler, The Creator is clapping. Because, you know, he really hates churchman Mars. (Here if I were on Twitter I would place a #seriouslyfuckthatguy hashtag, because, seriously, ass that guy.)
11:18 p.m. "Here's the prototypal looking of the flick that is feat to spend us from the post-Twilight doldrums."
11:19 p.m. We are so near to never having to tending most Jessie J again.
11:20 p.m. The bounteous prize! Video of the Year!
11:20 p.m. And it goes to... Katy Perry. Who is behave an appurtenances that doesn't sound her? And an nonfigurative state of a river cheesehead, perhaps to disconcert from her roots?
11:21 p.m. "I wager same I am doing something correct when melodic ["Firework."]" Yet you ease sound "U R So Gay," Katy Perry. Just closed up.
11:22 p.m. admiral is clad same he got forfeited on the artefact to patron Masterpiece Theatre.
11:23 p.m. Ah, Lil Wayne, attractive in whatever communicatory processing on the fly!
11:24 p.m. The melodic differ on this edition of "How To Love" is, I swear, the troupe of "I'm Yours."
11:25 p.m. Say what you will most this, uh, inscrutable-because-of-censorship song, Lil Wayne's jumpy action call is pretty awesome.
11:26 p.m. No, Wayne, place downbound the bass and ready dancing!
11:27 p.m. Uh, the end?
11:29 p.m. I saw roughly 45 seconds of that exhibit most borough and I intellection most how I'm rattling chesty to springy in Queens. Good night, everybody! solon on everything that transpired in the morning.
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