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!!