Articles tagged with: American Music Awards
Honestly, Michael Jackson should have popped his clogs a few years ago - it's done wonders for his career. Take The AMAs. The 2009 American Music Award nominations have just been announced and Michael Jackson is up for five awards, including Best Artist (even though he's dead and hasn't released any new albums for eight years) and Best Album (for a Greatest Hits collection that came out six full years ago). Why has Michael Jackson been nominated so many times? Simple - it's because he's dead and dead people can't make acceptance speeches. Basically it's all a big ploy to ruin Kanye West's fun.
The American Music Awards exist to recognise excellence in American music, and last night at the AMAs excellence was recognised. We're talking, of course, about Alvin And The Chipmunks. In a career spanning five decades, Alvin And The Chipmunks have seen it all - the highs represented by any of their six Grammy wins, the lows by that bit in their movie where one of them actually eats a turd - but now their comeback has been well and truly sealed with an American Music Award for Best Soundtrack. You have to hand it to the American Music Awards, really - it gave an award to a fictional novelty group made of poo-chomping rodents and still came out looking more credible than the MTV VMAs. But that's probably what you get when you don't give Britney Spears the Album Of The Year award just because she happens to have some hair and isn't dribbling.
Since the Black Eyed Peas haven't released any albums this year, we can't have been alone in thinking that it'd cause the American Music Awards to burst into flames and disappear into a vortex.
After all, we thought the Black Eyed Peas were contractually obliged to always win all of the American Music Awards, lest America wants to feel their wrath. But clearly that isn't the case - the 2007 American Music Awards took place yesterday with American Idol contestants Chris Daughtry and Carrie Underwood dominating the prizes. Why? Because it was the first time that the American public had been allowed to choose the winners, that's why - so we suppose we should just count our blessings that the Chocolate Rain bloke and the sodding Hamburglar didn't win everything instead.
