MTV Censors Eminem's Performance At European Awards

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MTV Censors Eminem's Performance At European Awards
By Clover Hope
Date: 11/20/2004 12:57 pm

Multi-platinum rapper Eminem was reportedly banned from executing his parody of pop icon Michael Jackson for a performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Rome Thursday (November 18).

The Detroit rapper had allegedly arranged to dress as Jackson, wearing a wig and a fake nosepiece, to perform his single “Just Lose It” off his album Encore in the Tor di Valle hippodrome where the award show took place.

Upon observing Eminem’s rehearsal the previous mourning, according to reports, MTV executives instructed Eminem to alter his routine sans the Jackson charade, insisting that it would cause humiliation and controversy.

"Bosses stepped in when it became clear he was going overboard,” a source told Britain's The Sun newspaper. "He wanted to rub Jackson's nose in his child molestation charges in front of a TV audience of millions.”

The rapper agreed to MTV’s demand, but he did reportedly bring 40 children onto the stage to perform his anti-war single “Mosh.”

Children in fatigues marched around while Eminem performed the highly political song.

Eminem has already received backlash over his recent “Just Lose It” video, which features him as Jackson on a bed with kids jumping around, mocking Jackson’s current child molestation charges.

In related news, Atlanta duo OutKast picked up three MTV awards for the evening, including Best Group, Best Song and Video for their hit “Hey Ya!”

The eccentric Andre 3000 told the crowd in his acceptance speech, "I hope you don't get tired of us. We only do what we do.”

Eminem's rap group D12 also won the Best Hip-Hop award at the show.

Eminem’s latest album Encore was released Friday (November 19) and claimed the number one spot on the Billboard Charts, selling over 700,000 units in just three days.

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But don't you dare hint that something else might be going on. Gee, it's not like the guy hasn't admitted to liking it when he sleeps with kids that aren't his in the same bed with him.

BAD Eminem! Didn't you realize Michael was an untouchable Saint on MTV?

:eyesroll:

That when he says "sleep" with kids other people think he means "**sleep**" with kids.

Maybe I really do pity the fool. (/Mr. T)

On MTV you can sing anti-Bush or anti-war songs--saying things about politics that you can't on real news shows--but don't you dare make any negative or satirical statements about Michael Jackson!

Boy, if only that was our problem with the rest of the media.

"MTV apologizes after teens sue SANTA MONICA (AP) --

MTV apologized Thursday to two 14-year-old girls who said they were splattered with feces when an act defecated on stage during a taping of the music channel's "Dude, This Sucks" show.

"This is a terrible incident. It was unintended and we regret that it happened," Brian Graden, the cable channel's president for programming, said in a statement. He added that the episode would never be aired and that he had taken steps to see that such an event never happens again.

"We are sorry if these women were hurt. It is certainly never our intention to hurt anyone," he said. Graden said the network had just learned that the girls are suing MTV, adding that the company "will respond accordingly through the legal process."

The teen-agers said they were standing next to a stage on Jan. 21 at the Snow Summit Ski Resort in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles, watching a two-man act called Shower Rangers during videotaping of a "Snowed In" segment of the MTV show.

"Without warning or explanation the two Shower Rangers turned their backsides to the audience, both opened a flap on the back of their shorts, exposing their naked buttocks," the girls' attorney Gloria Allred said.

"Before they could say or do anything, the Shower Ranger whose buttocks faced them bent over, spread the cheeks of his buttocks and emitted a spray of fecal matter," the lawyer said.

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Hey, folks, that's entertainment!

Threaten to first do the jacko bashing, so the MTV twerps can only sigh in relief when you mosh Bush!

One smart kid, he sure as hell knows how to triangulate and play the Media Masters for the fools they are! :D

Its all about the money. Michael Jackson still sells a ton of his old stuff. The record cos and MTV, Tower records etc. have to keep the corporate sales moving.

Hmmm, if you eliminated "controversy" from Eminem's song list, there wouldn't be much left.

I would much rather see him do the "Mosh" song anyway.

but a MJ send-up?!?!? Pffft- yeah he should DO Mosh...

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