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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2020 4:15:42 GMT
Miley Cyrus seemingly took the title of the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” as literal inspiration. Her performance of new song “Midnight Sky” was borderline unwatchable because the monochromatic lighting was so intense. Everything just blurred into a ball of color. But things somehow got worse when she climbed up a “Hotline Bling”-esque staircase and mounted a giant disco ball, à la 2013’s “Wrecking Ball” video. Did she need to be so self-referential? And please, musicians, there are visual artists other than James Turrell from whom you can pull inspiration! –QM
Jack Harlow
Jack Harlow’s “WHATS POPPIN” would be the song of the summer if, like, 15 other songs didn’t exist. Well, that’s enough to land him the opening spot on the VMAs pre-show. Of course, he performed his hit on a basketball court, because, in case you didn’t know, he’s quickly built ties to the NBA: Along with the John Stockton name drop in “WHATS POPPIN,” Harlow has been spotted bro’ing out with the Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro, and he almost single-handedly shut down the NBA bubble when he posted a selfie with the Clippers’ Lou Williams at Magic City. Too bad none of that love for the game translated to his VMAs performance, where he blandly rapped under dim lighting as masked players warmed up behind him. It felt like we were stuck in an arena watching a half-time show that we badly wanted to end. –AP
Somehow Both the Best and the Worst: The Black Eyed Peas
In a night full of canned laughs, the Black Eyed Peas’ appearance was genuinely hilarious. With the last award handed out, and nobody left on the schedule, will.i.am and his Fergie-less group fully jumped whatever shark was left for them to jump. Sporting glowing crotches (?!), they performed “Vida Loca,” which sounds like an inartful smash-up of MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and Major Lazer’s “Pon De Floor.” Then they got rid of any leftover “normal” award show pretense by summoning a Godzilla-sized Nicky Jam, who towered over his collaborators like a goliath. Tyga also came through (I think) but the real highlight was when the Black Eyed Peas closed the night out by performing “I Gotta Feeling” while a low-resolution UFO flew overhead. The message was clear: “Remember 2009? Remember feeling like tonight’s gonna be a good night? Haha—we do.” –NY
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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2020 4:28:34 GMT
Miley Cyrus time on 2020 VMA's wasn't as sparkly as it seemed for viewers.
One of the show's directors made a sexist comment toward 27-year-old star, she said when she recently appeared on the "The Joe Rogan Experience."
Before her she appeared on the show Sunday to perform her newest single, "Midnight Sky," during which she swung on a large disco ball, one of her bracelets became entangled in something backstage.
"They said, 'You know, you want to be treated like a guy and look like a guy, we wouldn't be dealing with this if a guy was doing it,'" she said referring to the show directors.
The former "Hannah Montana" star said that before that she questioned the way the show's directors planned to light her during the performance.
"I was just asking some questions -- not even on some diva s--t," Cyrus recalled. "I wanted the lights to be turned off, and then the lighting of the room to just be lighting me. So no key light, no beauty light. The beauty light is always used on women and I said, 'Turn the f--king lights off. You would never tell Travis Scott or Adam Levine that he couldn't turn the beauty light off.'"
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Post by Admin on Sept 9, 2020 5:39:27 GMT
Miley Cyrus' first live performance of "Midnight Sky" just finished at the MTV VMAs in New York City, and it was an energy-filled, powerful rendition of the song seemingly inspired by her breakup with ex-husband Liam Hemsworth. Cyrus paid reference to her "Wrecking Ball" music video, swinging on a disco ball toward the end of the performance. She dressed in black.
MTV quickly posted footage of the full performance on Twitter, which you can watch below:
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Cyrus spoke on SiriusXM about what the song was about when it first came out, admitting it was more about the stigma of divorce and general relationship failure, especially placed on women.
"Actually in 'Midnight Sky,' one of the lyrics that I'd ask everyone to kind of consider and kind of think about for themselves is the idea of 'forever and ever, no more,'" Cyrus said. "You know, you asked me to kind of explain briefly what my song is about. And I think it's my relationship with the stigma. That 'forever,' if it's not successful or if you claimed something to be forever and you fail, then you're a failure. And I just don't think that. I think we're kind of set up for devastation—in that, from the time we're little kids, we're taught to claim other humans as our best friends forever. And you just don't know who you're going to be sitting with here right now. You never know who you're going to evolve to be and who they're going to evolve to be.
"So I think that we, especially as women in relationships, a lot of the time we can get villainized when 'forever' doesn't happen," she continued. "And I think that you're just really setting yourself up to kind of be disappointed—and not from a bitter or resentful way, but from a realistic and logical standpoint, especially in modern society. We're changing and evolving and understanding ourselves from such a different perspective that it just feels like forever is definitely a big word, especially for someone young, especially as three years old, we're like, 'Oh, this is my best friend forever.' It's like, 'You have no idea what Allie is going to become.'"
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