Don't forget, Miley Cyrus performed pantomime masturbation on the show, which is the best thing anybody can ever say about her music.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:22 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Well, folks, MTV can still sell music: After last night's reunion of >> Justin Timberlake with his former buds from 'NSYNC on the Moonmen, it was >> not just Timberlake who enjoyed a download spike at Amazon and iTunes (as >> you would expect), the boy band's back catalog made impressive jumps in >> sales at both online retailers and although 'NSYNC is out of what for most >> Top 40 stations these days is a very limited timespan for their oldies >> playlist, I can easily see both the "Hits of the 90s and Today" and the >> increasingly up-tempo adult contemporary stations deciding that maybe >> people want to listen to that band again: >> >> >> http://www.thewrap.com/music/article/nsync-156-justin-timberlake-1876-post-vma-sales-charts-113256 >> > > I have a 21 year old daughter living at home - if Jesus had returned last > night she would have insisted that I tuned my television to the VMAs in > order to record The Reunion. I don't know what the Twitter and Facebook > statistics are nationwide, but I know for a fact that in my daughter's > circle of friends they were burning the internet down before, during and > after, regressing to the level of articulation they had when they were > tweeners at NSYNC concerts back in the day. > > Timberlake's music is not exactly in my ballpark - even when I was of age > I never frequented dance clubs. But since he was a kid (and I feel like my > parenting duties have doomed me to a lifetime of second-hand JT exposure) > he always impressed me with his performance skills and stage presence, and > he was so much the class of last night's show that it was not even a > contest. He probably does want to burn off whatever remaining cool cred he > has, but if I were in charge of programing a broadcast network, I would be > working 24 hours a day to convince Timberlake to put together some modern > version of a weekly primetime variety show. > > For the record, almost everything else on that show was an embarrassing > mess (with the exception of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis). And what was up > with the audio from Brooklyn? It sounded like MTV hung a mike from the back > of the arena and sent that out with the video. > > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
