You get that there’s a bit of a contradiction when you respond to a comment you haven’t read all the way through by saying I should listen to the album in question, right? I’m sure it’s a good album. Nothing against Tay Tay per se. From what I’ve heard she’s great at what she does. I’m more criticizing the…

Go fornicate a fascist while tweeting a fetishising reaction gif and"literally SCREAMING" at whatever mediocre pop culture item a social media algorithm tells you to consume that week, you human pox.

Re: “I forgot that you existed / It isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just indifference.”

Seriously. I heard a song on the commute this morning: Was it Lady Ga Ga? Tay-Tay? Katy Perry? Gwen Stefani?

This is a trick question. The VMAs were never good and I was never 15!

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It is cloying childish music. Mass produced garbage praised by Buzzfeed poptimists and outlets that make a cut on big studio releases.

Aahahahaha oh my god. That’s pathetic.

I’m not commenting on her talent, which I’m sure is ample, or her achievements in life, which appear extremely impressive. But Taylor Swift is very much a mass marketed construct, a company as much as a human being. I’m sure the person at the center of all that is complex and perhaps even worth listening to, but when…

Starting in 2012, she’s just been using the same pop producers as everyone else to write her songs for her. Your happy with her being just another attractive performer in the pop machine?

I read they are giving the ahem, Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award to Missy Elliott at the VMAs. Whatever that is supposed to be. Because I suppose Missy did all the blocking and cinematography and set design and editing on her videos, rather than showing up stoned on set and saying, “What?”

“Getcha ass to CHURCH!”

At least the Youtube awards gave us the beautiful clips of Norm Macdonald hosting the pre-show. 

It’s one thing to be poor; not much you can do about that when you’re a kid/teen.  But to not have rich friends?  That was a choice on your part.  I made it a point to seek out the clean looking kids in elementary and middle school because I knew those middle class children would have cable and I could watch SNICK.  

And obviously it was 1997.

I remember once Chris Rock was hosting and he introduced a performance by Good Charlotte. He just said, “Good Charlotte? More like mediocre Green Day,” and then the curtain opened on Good Charlotte. What an incredible burn, and an oddly accurate statement, but something that nobody at MTV would have pre-approved.…

Man, the 80's was the peak era of stealing cable. We didn’t pay for cable for years, but always had it on. Your parents failed you.

Ironically, you will have seen it all before.

You know that scene in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray’s character is desperately trying to recreate a spontaneous snowball fight that had happened on one of his earlier ‘days’ .And just ended up running around ,fake laughing, trying to look excited but just looking terribly desperate . Well thats the VMAs.