American Music Awards...boring. Except for Linday Lohan.

Who was excruciating.

She should stick to lipsynching, like Hilary Duff.

and the last thing she should ever do is a Stevie Nicks song.

Lohan attempting Stevie Nicks is just insulting to my intelligence...and ears.

I sat here in utter shock that she would attempt such blasphemy. The stones on that girl to try to pull that one off...

post adolescent girls make millions whining and squealing to a soundtrack.

I don't recall the last time I was able to watch MTV for more than five minutes.

seriously, it's the same freakin' awards show over and over again. they aren't promoting interesting music any more, not that they ever really did. who keeps paying for these big stupid events that leave everyone dissatisfied?

I never even particularly liked 'em before, but at least they actually play their own instruments and (kinda) sing without reprocessing or lip-synching. Kind of refreshing. The best performers of the evening wer eundoubtedly these guys, almost three times the age of many of the talent-free droids that fill out the Top 40 these days. I'm assuming this because I didn't even bother assaulting my ears by listening to the rest of it...only an idiot would do that when the weight of past experience demands that the pablum be silenced. Besides, I've become a pathological loather of all these awards shows (I actually went to the American Music Awards, and backstage there, in another life but even then watching this stuff on TV had lost its novelty) and I only tuned in to catch Mick and the boys hard on the heels of their pretty amazing Vegas visit.

People blast the '70s as an era of bad music, but some of the best stuff ever recorded came from that period -- can anyone honestly tell me that they think that the top records of the '90s and '00s even come close to the musicality of the hits of three decades ago? For one, all the corporately-issued pretty persons who masquerade as recording 'artists' these days never spent a single day honing r craft (if they had any, of course) before local and regional live audiences before signing on with a label. It shows, too. And people raised on a diet of aural crap might not ever know any better unless some Good Samaritan is there to teach them the Gospels of Elvis, the Beatles, Creedence, James Brown, Elton, Motown, and Stax. And, of course, Iron Butterfly. And the Archies.

Going to the Paul McCartney concert two days from now. Now you're talkin'...

FUCK MICHAEL EISNER IN THE ASS WITH A DULL RUSTY CHAINSAW!!

You do NOT cut off the goddamned motherfucking ROLLING STONES to go to a commercial!!!

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU BASTARDS????

from earlier in the schedule just to make sure they had enough room at the end for the old fellas.

Especially some who've worked for him.

Was it him or Dick Clark, though? Or some nameless broadcast genius?

. . . has anyone stopped and told this bimbette that she's just flat out not a good singer? AT ALL??? We were embarassed for her. So many off-key notes and it just kept going on and on and on. I shit you not, I've heard women at bars performing karaoke better than that after a few Zimas.

The back-up musicians and orchestra players are probably going "I fucking graduated BCoM (or Julliard) and paid my dues to back this no-talent? Oh well, I'm on TV, so that's some saving grace NO IT'S NOT!!! I'm STILL playing violin for someone who wouldn't make it out of the second round of a watering-hole karaoke competition were she not Lindsay fucking LOHAN!!! Oh the humanity. My life is a black swamp. Jeesus, she just hit ANOTHER wrong note. Better lay off those Marlboros, titsy . . ."

That's all that I can say. They were both awful. Why do these pseudo actresses think they can sing, too?? When Lindsay came on and butchered Stevie Nicks, I lost it. I decided to start flipping to other channels at that point. When I flipped back there was Hillary Duff. My ears are still ringing, and she was lip-singing