AMA Review & The BIG BLUNDER!!

Last night the 31st Annual American Music Awards aired on ABC. To say that I was impressed would be an understatement, I was extremely impressed, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a major issue which I will get to in a bit.

But first, the Pre-show featured our girl Hil sporting a black tanktop (similar to the one she wore at the MTV VMAs this year -- if not the same one!), a gold frilly skirt and gold heels to match. She also wore a large gold medallion around her neck (reminiscent of Isis, the Greek God). She looked really cute and when she was interviewed, she said she really wanted to meet Britney. Prior to that Britney said that she wanted to meet Hil. (What a coincidence!!)

During the pre-show, rehearsals were shown of our girl Hil and she stated that she didn't have a date for the award show (why didn't she call me -- I was waiting for the call!!). She was shown wearing a black shirt with a large pink heart (a tribute to breast cancer - possibly?) on it and knee-torn jeans (not a good fashion choice because her knees looked pretty scratched up -- must have been the rehearsal!!). Her hair also looked significantly blonder than it has in the past. She also looked like she put on a few extra pounds during her international touring. Her belly was sticking out of her tank top quite a bit during the interview session. Hil was the second person interviewed during the show, Britney was the first.

Ok..Now onto the show. Britney opened the show with her standard sleazy version song of "In the Zone". Hil's appearance came 1 hour and 15 minutes into the show at 9:15pm EST. Her performance consisted of a medley of "The Girl Can Rock" (the unreleased song available only on the Target editions of "Metamorphosis"), "So Yesterday", and back to "The Girl Can Rock". She was dressed in a black sleeveless top, black pants, and high black boots. Her set consisted of a blue lighted pyramid with various members of her band positioned on various levels of it. It was obvious from this performance that our girl Hil was NOT lip-syncing. However, she did a lot of running around the stage and up on the pyramid and ended her performance with a headbanging several times on the floor while on her knees. She had extreme energy which according to some today as being a girl "who has eaten an entire box of Lucky Charms and was trying to release the energy". I loved the performance up until the end and then I ended up shaking my head going "Is this really my Hil?". Yep, it was!! I would give her performance a 10!!

Now for the major blunder of the show. It didn't happen on the air--it happened online. Let me explain. ABC has something called Enhanced TV. It is a way for the home viewers to interact while the show is going on. You pick winners and answer trivia questions during the show. You earn points to win a prize. The idea started a couple of years ago when "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" aired on ABC with Regis Philbin. Since then it has been limited to sports and other events like this award show.

Now for the blunder (and its a REALLY BIG ONE that cost me about 4500 points). The question was TRUE or FALSE..Hilary Duff was a mouseketeer. The answer they gave was TRUE. I said the correct answer of FALSE and lost that question because of it. To add insult to injury, the next poll question (still during Hil's performance) was Who was your favorite mouseketeer? The choices were Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, and Hilary Duff. I voted for Britney only because voting for Hil is just wrong to this question. However, 17% of the polling audience liked Hilary's performance as a mouseketeer (probably all drug addicts who never knew she wasn't on the show). That's pretty sizeable number for a wrong answer to a poll question!! This was the only blunders I found during the game. I still lost but wound up being a respectable top 3% with 85,100 points. The top winner had 135,225 points. I still feel good about how I did despite the blunders made.

Now for my choice awards of the show:

Worst Lip-Syncing Performance: Britney Spears

Best Performance by Someone Who Stole the Act that Hilary should have done: Pink doing an archapella version of "Trouble" with just a guitar accompaniment (Hil would have done better with an accompaniment of "Come Clean" instead of the head-banging performance that she did (this would have been better for Pink -- she is more of a headbanger))

Best Overall Performance: OutKast with "Hey Ya!"

Best Dressed Act: OutKast (in gold)

Worst Dressed Person: Uncle Kracker (looked like he just woke up from sleeping on someone's couch for a week)

Soggiest Act: Ashanti singing "Rain on Me" (literary getting rained on during the performance -- this wasn't a wet t-shirt contest)

Most Out of Place Presenters: The Smothers Brothers (they must have got in because their Metamucil buddy Dick Clark produced the show -- why does Dick get younger every year?)

Most Touching Moments: Having Luther Vandross' mom Mary accept 2 awards for her son.


and finally the award for Performance that made think twice about wanting to see them in concert: Hilary!!
(if she doesn't split her head open during one of her concerts or trip and fall and die we will all be lucky--she is better off not moving around a lot..But I do love her)

One final comment about the Enhanced TV online game: About an hour and half into the show, people were asked to submit their comments about what they liked about the show and I was the only one to give a positive comment (or any comment at all for that matter) about Hilary's performance. They had all together about 50 comments saying different things and mine arrived on screen at 10:39 pm (I know the exact time because I printed it out). Here it is (in my embarrassed entirety) for the world to see:

What has been your favorite part of the show so far?

LouisBrown24 says:
"I loved hilary duff's performance..She is wonderful!! I really love this girl!!"

If I am not in prison soon, then I should be especially with a comment like that. But it is true..I really do love her!!!

Anyway, my overall review of the show would be a rating of 8. Enhanced TV gets a 5 for its blunder. And as I said before Hil gets a perfect 10!!

Next up for Hil is a concert in Phoenix..Tonight starting anytime now!! Best of luck to her and hopes she doesn't crack her head open otherwise I may have to go out on the road and complete her tour for her!

Until next time..Love ya'll xoxo Hil* (I'm not really her but I may end up being her if she keeps eating whole boxes of Lucky Charms -- too much sugar..Too much weight)

Thanks Hil..Your guy Lou!!

The AMAs, the Tour, and More

Hi, everybody!! I know it has been about 2 weeks since my last post, but I was waiting for Hil to post something new. Nothing surprising in her latest diary entry dated Nov 13, but she has been spending most of her time rehearsing for the AMAs on Sunday night. Apparently she will have a wonderful wardrobe for that night because she was going to be fitted for it as she mentioned in her diary entry. I reproduced the entry below:

Hi Everybody!! I'm so excited about going on tour next week. We've been playing some warm up shows in Los Angeles for the last couple of days and I wanted to thank the E-Team members who came to the shows to support me. I'm still rehearsing everyday for my AMA performance on Sunday and I'm pretty nervous, but afterwards we jump on the tour bus and go to Phoenix where I will play my first show on Monday. I have to run to my wardrobe fitting now. I wanna thank all you guys for your great support and I can't wait to play in all the upcoming cities. Luv ya'll, xoxo hil*

With about 18 city tour over the next month criss-crossing the country at random, it is highly unlikely that Hil will be doing her Christmas special for the WB as was previously announced. Unless she has already filmed it over the last couple of weeks. Maybe the WB backed off the special after how poorly her birthday bash did in the ratings (it finished dead last, by the way!) She made no mention of it on her diary, but then again she didn't mention that she was going to be on an upcoming episode of "American Dreams" airing on NBC on Nov 23.

I will report on both the AMAs and "American Dreams" after the events happen, but for now I highly suggest setting your vcr to tape both of these events...

Special item: Just as I write this Hil was featured on Entertainment Tonight talking with her about how excited she was about performing on the show..let's hope she don't lip-sync like she did on the Nick Special back in September. I wish I had taped it!!

A couple of Hil related items to mention:

I got a big poster that I had wanted finally after 2 months. The place where I got it was reluctant to give it to me and said they could never do it again!! At least I got it!! I'm happy!!

The "All Access Pass: Hilary Duff" DVD was released last week and yes I did purchase it. However, I am not going to watch it until I get a second copy to open. Given that the DVD is under $10 and is about an hour long, it may be a ripoff...(yes I am saying something bad about a Hil item..but I will wait until I watch it before passing final judgement.) Given that the cover and back cover have old pics of Hil that have been seen for quite a while, I really have to wonder how much of a rush job this actually was and if Hil participated at all in its creation!!

For anyone who has not picked up the special edition issue of Popstar magazine with nothing but Hil in it, a few stores still have it, but from what I have read from several of my groups, the magazine is either unavailable or sold out!!

This next week I am on vacation again so I hope to bring info at least a couple times in the coming week.

That is all for now..until next time..bye..luv ya'll Hil xoxo!!!
(the pop princess wannabe)

Hil's Tour, New Magazine, and the New Dolls

Hi, everybody!! Hil has announced her upcoming tour dates as reprinted below:

Nov 17, Concert - Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
Nov 19, Concert - The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
Nov 20, Concert - Phoenix Theatre, Petaluma, CA
Nov 21, Concert - Ventura Theatre, Ventura, CA
Nov 27, Hilary performs on the Macy's Day Parade in NY
Nov 28, Concert - Performing Arts Theatre, Reading, PA
Nov 29, Concert - Staircase, Scranton, PA
Nov 30, Concert - The Norva, Virginia Beach, VA
Dec 01, Performance - Tampa Performing Arts Center, Tampa, FL
Dec 02, Performance - Uptown Theatre, Kansas City
Dec 03, Performance - TBD, Dallas, TX
Dec 04, Performance - Reliant Arena, Houston, TX
Dec 05, Performance - Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA
Dec 06, Performance - The Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
Dec 08, Performance - Target Center, Minneapolis
Dec 11, Performance - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Dec 12, Performance - Tweeter Center, Philadelphia
Dec 15, Performance - Tsongas Arena, Lowall, MA
Dec 16, Performance - Coral Sky Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL
Dec 31, Performance - MTV, Time Square, New York, NY



Judging from how she is going from one part of the country to another in a single day, I highly doubt that she will have much setup time much less room tests and other things that a real artist requires. I would say that she will probably be lip-syncing most of the stuff because she may get so tired travelling that she won't feel like performing. I see a lot of disappointments ahead..just my opinion. I think Hil has since returned back to the US by now only to see a lot of the state of California on fire. Hopefully, our girl is ok...

A must-have fan magazine POPSTAR has produced a special issue devoted fully to our girl Hil!! It has 2 large posters plus many pics from her various movies and the Hawaii special. Currently available on newsstands everywhere..I bought 2 copies!!

Finally, 3 new dolls of Hil has entered the marketplace. They look considerably better than the previous purchased Lizzie doll, but still lacks the cuteness of the real Hil!! The three varieties of the doll are TV Star, Rock Star, and Movie Star. These are must haves for the serious Hil lover such as myself. I've already got mine..and they were very hard to get! See the pics of them at toysrus.com and HilaryDuff.com.

Just a note..things are going very well with my online girlfriend..until next time..luv ya'll Lou..xoxoxoxo!!