What made the VMA Awards so controversial
The VMA Awards were handed out last night in Inglewood, California. I was, of course, glued to my flatscreen as you can well imagine. The music aside, my attention was centred firmly on the juicy stuff.
The Feuds
Let’s begin with the feuds. Why was Gwen Stefani seen clapping with two index fingers just as Taylor Swift finished dancing her little body all over the place? Poor Taylor has just recovered from last year, when Kanye West handed her an award but then proclaimed that Beyoncé should have won it. Oh Kanye, we can’t really expect any better from him anymore.
It’s not going too well with Beyoncé
Then it was time for Beyoncé (what is it with Beyoncé and her majorette suits?) We collectively looked at her four or five times and each time ended with “It’s not going too well with her. That’s doesn’t look good.”
As professional as Beyoncé is, she knew that she had to sing a song with her daughter Blue Ivy’s voice mixed in to it. She also knew that there were huge video images of happy family vacations projected behind her and she knew all too well that Jay-Z would be getting up on stage with little Blue Ivy in his arms.
She couldn’t handle those emotions. Tears welled up, and not the oh-I’m-so-happy-and-overjoyed-cause-life-is-so-good kinda tears. They were tears of loss.
If you still don’t believe it, rewind till the last two minutes where you see the once happy family standing together on stage. Beyoncé can’t even look Jay-Z in the eyes, he kisses her somewhere in her hair (I mean, lovers kiss long and hard on the mouth) and they keep stepping away from each other until there’s like a metre between them.
They won an award for best collaboration for their number Drunk in Love, now if they meant for best collaboration at ‘keeping an act up’, then it was truly well deserved. The On the Run tour is over on 14 September. Hopefully the PR circus will end too. Give our girl a break.
Chubby Dwarf
The bra theme stood out as far as outfits were concerned. Or rather, the forgotten bra. Kim-if you have it, flaunt it-Kardashian showed us very clearly what Kanye enjoys from both front and back, in a little, sorry correction, almost nothing Balmain dress. Model Iman Chanel also wore Balmain but hers was quite a different story to Kim’s, my apologies to all the Kim-fans, who looked like a chubby dwarf without a bra next to her model sisters and skinny mother.
Where is the bra?
Demi Lovato apparently also thought the bra to be a thing of the past. Dear Nina, there are stick on bras with push up effect. Maybe something for you? You can wear a hundred Givenchy dresses, but to quote Coco Chanel “if there is no woman, there is no dress.”
Cleavage with allure
Something made me think that Kim Kardashian was trying to stay away from Nina Dobrev. Talking about a cleavage with natural allure. Designer Zuhair Murad probably danced circles around the dressing room in the presence of such beauty.
Loser
Let us close with a winner and a loser. Gwen Stefani chose, very creatively, for a suit from L.A.M.B. couture. Yes, her own label. What is actually not wrong with this look? And why doesn’t she have a clutch to finish it off? Maybe because there was nothing to finish off?
Dump Gwyneth
Maybe I’m just not very positive on this Monday morning. No, I am, I am. Jennifer Lopez shone like a diva should. Her ankle length Charbel Zoe dress should probably only be worn by Rihanna body-wise, but for the rest a typical case of dream-on. Her honey-blonde hair falling effortlessly over her shoulders, the clutch, the heels, everything just perfect.
Beyoncé, let Gwyneth loose as your breaking-up advisor, and focus on Jennifer. She knows everything about divorce and might even allow you a little session of digging in her cupboard to lend you a dress. You can do it.
