I could not bear to watch the MTV Music Awards Show in its entirety last night but did catch a significant amount of it.  The first train wreck was the performance of Britney Spears.  Performing her new single “Gimme More” she lip-synched to the track, sometimes, and looked nervous and spaced-out.  I knew she couldn’t sing and that she lip-synched to her previous songs but the girl did know how to dance.  Because of her dance moves in her earlier years, I could understand why the pre-teens and teenager’s loved her.  In the performance last night, she stumbled through it, looked like she was counting the steps and couldn’t remember half of them.  At one point, she seems so bored that she stopped even moving her lips and appeared not to even know the words to her own song.   Many are reporting about her physical appearance but I want even go there as I don’t expect all celebrities to have an emancipated look.  However, I will say she could have worn something different than her bra and panties.  What was to have been a musical comeback for Britney, seems to be dead with this performance.  However, she may remain a paparazzi show like Paris Hilton.  

To make things worse for Britney, the distasteful comedian Sarah Silverman took the stage immediately following her and Britney and her children appeared to be the brunt of her jokes.  Silverman called the children adorable mistakes and went on to state unprintable remarks.  When did anyone’s children get to be appropriate material for jokes? 

The awards show itself, was unorganized, with no host melding the performance together, and appeared to be a drinking brawl thrown together in different party suites at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. There were “parties” going on by Kanye West, Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy and Justin Timberlake.  It really doesn’t make any difference who won the newly made up awards, as between the swearing and drinking, no one seemed to care.

I understand that last year the MTV awards show had its smallest audience in 10 years and I expect that this year’s will be much higher as everyone wanted to see Britney.  However, I think this year’s show has left a sour taste in many people’s mouth and I would just rate it unwatchable.