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Post by Enigma. on Aug 27, 2019 13:48:14 GMT -5
Yes, there was the notorious misunderstanding when viewers thought she was doing Aretha tribute although she was asked to present the award and say a few words about her.
Queen Latifah and John Travolta presented VOTY this year, JVN presented the video for good
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Post by kimberly on Aug 27, 2019 15:52:26 GMT -5
Queen Latifah and John Travolta presented VOTY this year, JVN presented the video for good This makes more sense now
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Post by Caviar on Aug 27, 2019 21:42:32 GMT -5
VMAs Hit All-Time Ratings Low for 3rd Straight Year The on-air numbers weren't down quite as sharply as in recent years, and MTV is touting big increases in social and online engagement. The Video Music Awards fell in the ratings again — but not as steeply as they had in the past couple of years or in comparison to some other recent awards shows. Monday's kudocast on MTV drew 1.93 million viewers and a 0.9 rating among adults 18-49. That's an all-time low for the flagship channel, down from the previous low — set last year — of 2.25 million viewers and a 1.1 in the demo. The VMAs have hit all-time ratings lows in each of the past three years. The MTV telecast was off by 14 percent in viewers and 18 percent in adults 18-49, somewhat smaller declines than either of the past two years — when the total audience fell by 18 percent and 18-49 ratings by more than 20 percent each time. The awards were also simulcast on 11 other Viacom channels (VH1, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount Network, CMT, MTV2, TV Land, MTV Classic, Logo and BETHer). The 12-network telecast recorded a 6 percent drop among adults 18-49, which is a better showing than the MTV Movie and TV Awards, Teen Choice Awards, Tony Awards and Billboard Music Awards, all of which fell by double digits. READ MORE VMAs: 10 Memorable Moments From the MTV Awards Show Complete viewership numbers for all 12 channels tallies 4.9 million, also down about 6 percent from last year's 5.2 million viewers (on 10 channels). The awards ceremony also recorded big gains in social and online video views, which were up 85 percent year to year and a key point of emphasis in reaching the network's core young-adult audience. Social engagement around the VMAs also more than doubled year to year in the month leading up to the awards, per figures from Conviva Social Insights. MTV also noted that ratings among the older demo of adults 25-54 were up 6 percent, possibly owing to 46-year-old comedian Sebastian Maniscalco serving as host and the prominent presence of veteran music stars like Missy Elliott (who received the Video Vanguard Award), Queen Latifah and Naughty by Nature. Taylor Swift won video of the year honors for "You Need to Calm Down," while Ariana Grande was named artist of the year and Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus won the song of the year award for the ubiquitous "Old Town Road (Remix)." Billie Eilish was tapped as best new artist. www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/vmas-hit-all-time-ratings-low-3rd-straight-year-1234937?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_source=m.facebook.com&utm_medium=referral
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 22:59:11 GMT -5
Very belated observation, but did the VMAs really create a Fashion Vanguard award just to play Marc Jacobs dirty and relegate him to a two minute carpet mention? I was expecting a runway show with some of his most memorable video looks or something but I don't think he was mentioned even once during the show (I admittedly tuned out toward the end). What was the point? They then chucked two of their biggest trophies in the middle of the show as if they were filler categories, and didn't give the third one a proper 'and the winner is...' at all bc the winner didn't attend. As an old, I don't think it's my place to criticize the young talent as lacking star power - I'm not the demographic that makes that call - but IMO the fact that the show itself clearly had little to no interest in its own awards set the 'eh' tone for the night more than the choice of performers did. And I don't know why they don't go back to their original not-fan-voted system bc it's been obvious for a while that attendance dictates winners more than the fans do.
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Post by Enigma. on Aug 27, 2019 23:57:54 GMT -5
^The show was on Monday so maybe they thought that they'd give the important awards earlier as it was "middle of working week"? Dunno. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense as Taylor who won the VOTY even attended.
The show was huge success on social media, thanks to fantastic performances in particular (several over 1M views on Youtube in 12h). The tv ratings are not very important in this day and age although they were up in older demography too.
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Post by aussie1 on Aug 28, 2019 0:09:31 GMT -5
I'm late but a few thoughts on the show.
I like Taylors performance of Lover, she killed it. Lizzo had the performance of the night however, her stage presences is unmatched! Also enjoyed Normani's, Lil has X and Miley's performances.
Award wise- I thought it was a little sus that when Taylor won her first award she didn't even speak; this kind of told me she was for sure going to be winning another one. I was fine with her taking home the video with a good message award but video of the year for YNTCD? Hell no! TUN was right there! But as it has been said she showed up and is promoting heavily at the moment so I shouldn't be surprised. I just think about how Look what you made me do got shown little to no love and that video is one of the best videos of all time. I think all the other awards were pretty well deserved, especially song of the year for OTR and Artist of the year for Ariana.
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Post by felipe on Aug 28, 2019 7:17:16 GMT -5
What's the deal with that spaceship during Pass That Dutch? Was it a huge prop or just a projection?
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Post by Enigma. on Aug 28, 2019 14:06:35 GMT -5
It was projection/some kind of augmented reality thing.
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Post by felipe on Aug 28, 2019 17:07:58 GMT -5
It was projection/some kind of augmented reality thing. It was well done then. Looked really good.
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