World Music Awards 2004 and Hilary in the Blender


On Wednesday September 15, 2004, ABC aired the World Music Awards 2004 show live from Las Vegas. If you thought the MTV VMAs were bad that was nothing, this was many times worse and shared some of the same problems.

To start some of the offenders from the VMAs were there: Alicia Keys, OutKast, and Usher to name a few. The first award handed out was for best new artist and our girl Hil was nominated for this category and suprisingly she WON!!! When she went up on stage, it was easy to tell it was totally unexpected for her, but she managed to thank just about everyone she knew except one person: ME!! I personally feel responsible for putting this girl on the front line of her music career although she would probably disagree!! She looked great in the dress she wore.

About 20 minutes later, Hil was onstage performing her new hit song "Fly" and unfortunately it was easy to tell that she was lip-syncing the whole song!! Nobody could make the song sound like it was just cut from the cd like that!! Its sad that Hilary doesn't feel comfortable enough yet to perform live which may cut her music career significantly. Only time will tell...

Between Hil's two appearances, Avril Lavigne appeared on stage performing her hit "My Happy Ending". All I could think about is "What did she do to her hair?". It looked like she stole a wig from Dolly Parton's 1970's collection!! It looked awful, but she was able to warble through her song without any lip-syncing at all!!

The rest of the show was pretty forgetful until the end when once again OutKast became the end credit performers and once again the stage was littered with confetti this time!! So sad that they don't open the show instead of closing everytime.

My grade for the show is a C-. Hilary's performance is a B-. Avril's performance is a B (the hair gets an F.).

On another topic, I usually like to consider Hil to be the darling of magazines such as Tiger Beat, Bop, Teen People and others. I didn't expect her to be the cover girl of October 2004's Maxim's Blender Magazine. She looked good, but I think she may start alienating her fans by appearing on such an adult magazine. It just didn't seem appropriate that this 16 year old should appear on the cover of this magazine, but all the pics of her were tasteful and NOT sexy staying with her belief that she doesn't want to be sexy. I still would not recommend this magazine to anyone under the age of 16 however. It is still a worthy purchase though for those obssessive fans like myself!! This magazine is now on sale!!

One final note I want to bring up is the idea of messenging me. Some of my closest friends have been ignoring me lately (you know who you are) and some of my newest friends have been not making regular conversations either. Also some old friends like Becky haven't talked to me in about 2 months (SO SAD)!! To everyone, I really want to know what the problem is? Do you hate me? If so, why? Do you think I am out of touch with reality with this Hilary thing? Please I really wanna know? If you don't wanna message me, you can leave a comment or send an email to me!! But please don't leave me in the dark..my feelings can get hurt when I feel left out of everything!!

Anyway..until next time xoxo Hilary...I mean lou