Miguel:
I'm feeling your pain, man.
For some reason (perhaps I have a masochistic streak?), I compulsively watch
these meaningless awards shows -- knowing full well that I'll just come away
sickened.
I, too, was suckered in by the promise of "unseen" Beatle footage, and came
away from the whole thing feeling vaguely cheap at how anticlimactic it all
was.
On the "up" side (always looking for that silver lining, that's me), the
performances during the show at least appeared to be live. I listened hard
for backing tracks and the like, but in our post-Ashlee world, it looks like
these Top 40 types are going out of their way to prove that they can, like,
sing.

Just one question though -- what's so great about that Usher record? I've
heard the singles. It's pretty generic hip-pop. Has R&B degenerated that
badly?

john.
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John L. Micek
State Government Reporter
The Morning Call
Harrisburg, Pa.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miguel Motta" <a2j@bellsouth.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 6:50 AM
Subject: American Music Awards


Last night I was channel surfing and bumped into the American Music Awards
ceremony... I shun these presentations because it's always full of the usual
Pop (I say this lightly) R&B "flavor-of-the-month" drivel...But I stayed
only because the announcer kept teasing to "stay tuned for an
unseen-in-40-years Beatles' video"... After suffering through the likes of
Usher, Outkast and a cast of other "flavors" finally the moment came to view
the "unearthed" Beatles classic... Much to my dissapointment it was a clip
that is easily viewed on "The Beatles Live" video issued by Sony a few years
ago (it is yet to debut on DVD altho' I've seen dubbed copies on Ebay)... To
make matters worse Jimmy Kimmel, the show's host, joked "Boring..." as the
camera came back to him after the video clip (to which the audience booed
and Kimmel's joke fell flat on its face)... Anyway I felt like a fool to
have trusted that a highly glossy and commercial joke award show like the
AMA could be serious about presenting a "rare unearthed" Beatles clip...

Cheers

Miguel