MTV Video Music Awards 2014

Homeless Miley stole the show

MTV Video Music Awards 2014 was held at The Forum in Inglewood, California and the stars lined up for the music video event of the year. As usual, it was a fun filled event, a little less controversial this time (apart from an almost wardrobe malfunction from Nicki Minaj), a few lukewarm performances and some of them rose above the rest. Like every other year, girl power ruled the award show winning all the major awards apart from Best Hip Hop Video (won by Drake) and Best Male Video which doesn't count as far as I know.

The main award 'Video of the year' was won by Miley Cyrus for her record breaking video 'Wrecking Ball' which is a fantastic achievement for a young artist growing up in Disney. Best Female Video went to Katy Perry for 'Dark Horse', Artist to watch which is equivalent to Best New Artist went to Fifth Harmony for 'Miss Movin On', Best Pop Video which is gender mixed went to Ariana Grande for 'Problem' and another gender mixed male oriented category Best Rock Video went to a girl Lorde for 'Royals'. The Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award which is almost equivalent to Lifetime Achievment Award went to Beyonce and she nailed it with a 15 minutes performance, and I left the best for last Ed Sheeran won the Best Male Video for 'Sing'. Ed is someone I have been following before he broke out in the music scene, it made me so happy to see him winning the award considering the other nominees are more prominent figure and all of their songs charted higher than him in the charts.

Amongst the performances, Sam Smith soared above the rest with his rendition of 'Stay With Me', it moved the whole theatre and the voice just silenced everyone. Taylor Swift gave a mediocre performance of 'Shake It Off', Ariana Grande, Jessie J and Nicki Minaj gave a heart pumping performance for their respective singles 'Break Free', 'Anaconda' and 'Bang Bang', Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora turned up the heat with 'Black Widow', Maroon 5 sang a medley of 'Maps' and 'One More Night', 5SOS sang 'Amnesia' and Usher premiered 'She came to give it to you' with Nicki Minaj. The show ended with Beyonce who sang a medley from her last album before receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award from Jay Z and Blue Ivy. One thing I don't understand about Beyonce's performances is that it always looks so organised and planned, it misses on the connection it is suppose to have with the audience, overall Queen Bee still got it after all these years!!

The real winner of the night was Miley Cyrus who sent Jesse, a homeless guy in the streets of LA to collect her Video of the Year Award to raise awareness for My Friends Place who is helping the homeless people who all go to LA for fame and fortune but end up less fortunate. Miley was the talk of VMA last year for all the wrong reasons but this year she turned it upside down with a good deeds which shows her true heart, all I can say is this girl knows how to steal a show more than anyone in the business.

P.S - The best dressed award goes to Jennifer Lopez who looked stunning in a shimmering gold gown.

Taylor Swift - Shake it off

Country princess goes pop and it's sweet as ever!!

Am sure most of my friends who know me will know that I won't write even a single negative word about her and they are damn right on this one. And yes, after the record breaking 'Red Tour', Taylor Swift is back and she doesn't disappoint, the song is called 'Shake it off' which she co-wrote with Max Martin and Shellback who were behind her #1 hit 'We are never ever getting back together', '22' and 'I knew you were trouble' from her last album. The song is released as the lead single from her upcoming album aptly titled '1989' (her birth year) and it has all the ingredients to be a big hit once again for her, it channels 'Mean' and she sings about people who can't stop saying bad things about her.

Taylor Swift is pulling a Beyonce on this one, she gave us 2 hints on her Instagram account about the release of this song and announced it via Yahoo! live stream and premiere the video on sunday night. The song is produced by her co-writers, it is not really her signature sound but she herself stated that '1989' will be her first documented official pop album and it is clear that she is moving towards the pop direction. She sings about the haters and  critics who found everything wrong about her, what they say about her and she expresses what she really feels, she states that there is music in her heart that everything will be alright so she shake it off. Taylor's vocals sounds better than ever, we can sense that it has grown a lot from the Tim McGraw days, she also rap on the hook which I called her best friend and my idol, the Ed Sheeran effect. It is a pop song that will be big in the radio,every kid across the world will love it, it will be in everyone's lip especially after she performs it this Sunday at the VMA's.

The video showed Taylor in different avatars, she recruited her musicians, dancers and her very own swifties, it is a refreshing video and we see a different side of her. It has its criticism that she is a racist in this video which she can just shake, shake , shake it off and we all know she is not even close to being a racist. I just can't wait for the full album when it gets released on October 27, 2014 and billboard has reported the song is likely to debut at #1 next week with a record breaking sales. I've said this before and will say it again, it's good to be a #swiftie