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WINNERS<\/span><\/p>\n

MTV<\/span><\/p>\n

It happened on MTV.\u00c2\u00a0 It burnishes the brand’s image, that it still happens there.\u00c2\u00a0 The fact that an artist was sacrificed in the process?\u00c2\u00a0 WHO GIVES A FUCK!\u00c2\u00a0 This is what MTV has been doing for eons.\u00c2\u00a0 Like some "Twilight Zone" aliens with a book entitled "To Serve Acts", MTV has convinced "artists" that brief television exposure is good for them, when we all know it burns out careers, uses up performers even quicker than sitcoms.<\/p>\n

Jay Leno<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s why you’ve got to stay in the game.\u00c2\u00a0 You never know when serendipity will deal you a ratings bonanza on your most important date, in this case, the debut of your show.\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody’s making a big deal re Jay’s question about what Kanye’s mother would say.\u00c2\u00a0 Who would ask such a question?\u00c2\u00a0 I’d say who’d answer it, but Kanye didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that Kanye didn’t ask for it…\u00c2\u00a0 He’s living his life in the media, he gets no time off, he fucks up, he apologizes, it’s endless grist for the mill.\u00c2\u00a0 As for it affecting his career…\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a dearth of hip-hop superstars, and no pop or rock stars to fill the void.\u00c2\u00a0 So, expect Kanye to come back bigger and better than ever, Kanye 2.0, who is humble, who apologizes, and makes music that doesn’t sound radically different from what he made previously.\u00c2\u00a0 We love resurrection stories more than destruction stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Look at Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n

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Kanye West On Jay Leno: Apologizes To Taylor Swift<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Twitter<\/span><\/p>\n

Without the microblogging service, would we know that Obama called Kanye a "jackass"?\u00c2\u00a0 As for it being off the record and Terry Moran tweeting it anyway…\u00c2\u00a0 In a "me" society, who can expect anybody to behave properly, with humility.\u00c2\u00a0 Isn’t that how we got Kanye to begin with?<\/p>\n

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Obama’s Kanye Jackass Comment Continues Wave of Gaffes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Obama<\/span><\/p>\n

You mean you watch the VMAs?\u00c2\u00a0 You mean you know what’s going on in the world?\u00c2\u00a0 After legions of old farts in the White House, this is positively stunning.\u00c2\u00a0 But even though the media and the Republicans may use this expletive against him, it does more for the President in the minds of young voters than any speech to Congress or appearance on "60 Minutes".\u00c2\u00a0 Makes you think if you ran into him you could have a conversation, he’d know what you were talking about.<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, Kanye did hand the mic back to her, but like the 19 year old she is, she was so overwhelmed, she couldn’t speak. Cementing her status as the teenage naif with the singing diary.\u00c2\u00a0 What happens when she grows up?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I guess she’s listening to Joni Mitchell records right now.

Vince Romanelli<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d never heard of him either, but his parody of Taylor Swift’s "You Belong With Me", remade as "You Don’t Belong On MTV", displays creativity unheard on Top Forty.\u00c2\u00a0 We don’t get humor, any analysis in music, just endless pap parading as important so fat cats can get rich.<\/p>\n

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You Don’t Belong on MTV<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

LOSERS<\/span><\/p>\n

The American Public<\/span><\/p>\n

A real story can no longer get traction.\u00c2\u00a0 Health care is too complex.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like studying in class as opposed to flirting in the cafeteria.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve become a nation of gossip, and misinformation.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, who didn’t know Kanye’d been acting like a jackass previously?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like his jackassness was a musical career, waiting for the tipping point for everyone to celebrate.\u00c2\u00a0 He acted poorly at this awards show, said bad things at Bonnaroo, now, finally, when so many were watching, he fucked up one more time.\u00c2\u00a0 Now he truly is a superstar!<\/p>\n

But he was already.\u00c2\u00a0 And most people piling on weren’t paying attention to begin with.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, I must admit the music community and fans are piling on too.\u00c2\u00a0 Because they like to.\u00c2\u00a0 Like the above-referenced high school society, exacting its own justice.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying frivolity has no place, I’m just saying that we revere in popular culture almost nothing of value. Everything’s grist for the mill.\u00c2\u00a0 Either you’re smart, starting Facebook, writing an iPhone app, or you dropped out of high school and became a lowest common denominator twit like Paris Hilton, focusing eyes on you.<\/p>\n

Everybody wants to be rich and famous, everybody wants the attention.\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn’t matter how many "Behind The Music" shows are aired, people think stardom will solve all their issues.\u00c2\u00a0 So, the inherent fabric of our country becomes ripped and torn, dilapidated.<\/p>\n

I know you think I’m on overkill here, but…<\/p>\n

People go into finance to get rich, even though this finance doesn’t build our country, only tears it apart.<\/p>\n

People can’t get high tech jobs because they’re not educated enough.<\/p>\n

People who do go to college study business, those dreamy liberal arts majors who used to create the culture we reveled in are seen as pussies.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s about cash, baby.<\/p>\n

We spend our money living like rappers, going to the Palms in Vegas to splash in the pool while consuming overpriced liquor.<\/p>\n

I’m just saying we need a readjustment here.\u00c2\u00a0 Gossip must be the underbelly, not the primary.\u00c2\u00a0 We seem to carom from one celebrity event to another, from Michael Jackson’s death to Kanye, and since the news media sees itself as stars, they throw logs on the fire.\u00c2\u00a0 Twenty four hours on kidnappings, not twenty four hours on explaining bills in Congress, or Supreme Court decisions.\u00c2\u00a0 But they need the ratings!<\/p>\n

That’s what Kanye is, ratings.\u00c2\u00a0 For everybody and anybody who’s got something to sell.\u00c2\u00a0 And we’re buying it.\u00c2\u00a0 So the laugh’s on us.<\/p>\n

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