Posts Tagged ‘MTV’

RIP TRL: The End of an Era

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

RIP TRL: Britney Spears Baby One More Time #1 Video of All TimeToday I ordered pizza, played with my new bangs, and munched on Doritos while watching MTV’s TRL Total Final Live! - a special presentation celebrating 10 fabulous years of TRL.

Carson Daly was back to host the final episode with Damien Fahey and the whole show quickly became one big happy reunion.

Britney Spears was dubbed the ‘Queen of TRL’ and Baby One More Time was chosen as the most important video in TRL history. Beyonce gave an amazingly bootylicious performance in a leather jacket that was totally bananas. Kid Rock stopped by while smoking and drinking. Miley Cyrus was there and was so annoying that they kept her in the photo booth. Puffy/Puff Daddy/P.Diddy/Diddy/Etc added one more appearance to his list on the show, this time he even pretended to cry. Ludacris performed with Nelly and Snoop. 50 cent brought the house down in a bedazzled red leather jacket. And OMG - do you remember the ‘I wanna be a VJ’ contest and the winner Jesse Camp?! Yep, he was there too, although he didn’t look quite as weird as he first did years ago. Even Backstreet was back (and now I’m sitting here happily singing “I want it that way!”).

Hmm…I guess MTV really is finished with music…no wonder they recently launched MTVMusic.com. Maybe they needed to make room for Whitney Port’s new ‘reality’ show The City. Anyway, in honor of the last episode ever of TRL, let’s take a look at what a few past and current MTV TRL VJs are up to now:

  • Carson Daly - now hosts Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC
  • Damien Fahey - is also a drummer and possibly my future husband
  • Vanessa Minnillo - the former Miss Teen USA wore a starry-eyed surprise to the finale, is currently dating Nick Lachey, hosting the new reality competition called True Beauty, and also working on various acting projects
  • Susie Castillo - this former Miss USA is now the spokesperson for Neutrogena, is the host of ABC Family’s America’s Prom Queen, and is starting to pop up on shows and in movies
  • Dave Holmes - the guys who came in second on MTV’s first I Wanna Be a VJ contest is now an actor and even made it on a show I find ridiculously funny, Reno 911
  • Hilarie Burton - she won a chance to report live from the VMA carpet in 2000 which led to hosting duties on TRL and can now be seen on the WB’s One Tree Hill as Peyton
  • La La Vasquez -former DJ turned VJ, La La is now married to Carmelo Anthony and has an adorable son - she was also recently photographed for Sports Illustrated
  • Quddus - this cutie is (surprise, surprise!) busy working on an acting career

Even though I haven’t watched TRL in years, I’m going to miss it. For a look at the night’s fashion hits & misses, see what the ever-so-kind ladies at Jezebel have to say…

Ahhhh Yeah! MTVMusic.com is Alive and Kickin’

Friday, November 7th, 2008

MTVMusic.com launches today and I love it!Anyone who knows me, knows that I love my MTV - have since I was about 14 and I probably always will - yes, the Hills, True Life, all of it really except for TRL (because I’m not 12), Next, and Parental Control. And even though I love the reality programing, I really do miss watching hour upon hour of music videos (and yes, I know MTV2 exists and whatnot, but I just don’t watch triple-digit channels).

Well today MTV launched MTVMusic.com and it has already set my morning back by about 30 minutes! You can watch practically any music video on the new super clean site and comment on the videos directly - and they load pretty quickly which is nice.

Ahh…I feel like all is finally going right in this world: Obama is our President-Elect and MTV is back to being MTV (at least online anyway).

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight
Green Day - Longview
Weezer - El Scorcho
Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right (To Party)
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Madonnna - Open Your Heart
a-ha - Take on Me

Rock ‘n Roll: Burberry & MTV’s VMA

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Burberry Spike Bracelet Fall 08 CollectionSo my birthday might be over two months away, but I just wanted to point out that I love this amazing spiked bracelet from Burberry.

Its just crazy, sexy, cool and will look unreal when worn over gloves during the colder months. So, why don’t I just buy it for myself? Because I just treated myself to a trio of metallic chain bangles by Philip Crangi, which I’m dying to receive.

Ah…on a sort-of-related side note, did you watch MTV’s Video Music Awards tonight? Does anyone seriously think Britney Spears deserved to win two moon men for her ‘piece of me’ video? Do you love that guy Russell Brand as much as I do?? Anyway, If I had gone to the VMAs tonight, you can bet that this Burberry beauty would have been hanging from my little wrist - what could be more rock ‘n roll than that? I guess having Pamela Anderson dangling from it instead?

p.s. I took the day off from fashion week to do some seriously exhausting shopping, but promise to have posts about the Abaeté and ADAM by Adam Lippes shows up tomorrow.

90210 Sucks

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

And now I know why I didn’t watch 90210 in middle/high school and why I won’t be watching the new series…

  1. Shenae Grimes is the actress who plays Annie Wilson, who I guess is supposed to be the star of the show. The girl looks more anorexic then Allegra Versace and I’m not particularly fond of her face (that sounds mean, sorry) - she also just seems a little weak to carry the show in general (but that might be from malnutrition). And the thing is, the producers clearly want people talking about her weight - they even show her pushing around a salad the size of a quarter during a cafeteria scene… I’m actually becoming more disgusted with each new scene. Can anyone give this girl a frappuccino, or a donut, or something? Hey! I’ve got a great idea - someone should invite her to a show at the tents, then she could take advantage of the brilliant health booth the CFDA is setting up!
  2. The ‘pig prank’ they had the boys do was totally lifted from a real prank that probably hundred of kids have done, which was also shown in MTV’s new series High School Stories
  3. The overall dialog and plot is crap
  4. And do they wear Forever 21 in Beverly Hills? And what’s with the hair? Stylist, anyone?!

I’ll take The Hills over 90210 any day - seriously, I’d rather watch a full hour of The Hills with Spencer Pratt sitting on his Stephanie’s couch doing nothing but growing out his scraggly beard than sit through another episode of 90210.

I love my MTV

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I love MTV. I love all of the awful reality TV. I love The Hills, Made, America’s Next Dance Crew, True Life, etc. And I love love love My Super Sweet 16. I swear I will watch MTV until I die.

Right now MTV is running a My Super Sweet 16 special and Sean Kingston is on celebrating his super 18th birthday. What?! You don’t know who Sean Kingston is? Well, he is the young Jamaican pop singer who sings that absolutely fabulous song ‘Beautiful Girls’ that I first heard while watching The Hills. If you don’t know it - listen to it now.

Speaking of The Hills - Do you love the new commercials that feature awful Spencer & Heidi and Pete Wentz? I do. In fact, they almost make me like Speidi, and that’s scary.

About a month ago I went to an afterparty at 1Oak for some film showing at Tribeca and Spencer & Heidi were there and looking ridiculously blond. They were seated in the corner and there was a huge spotlight beaming down on them. So obnoxious and so bizarre.

I would write more, but a new episode of My Super Sweet 16 just came on…