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These Are Not Your Father’s MTV Music Video Awards
The MTV-VH1 Music Video Awards were tonight. They sure have changed.
Madonna, looking relaxed, calm and very pretty, opened the show with a quiet and actually quite moving speech in tribute to Michael Jackson. After noting they were born the same year, she mentioned she lost her mother when she was a young girl. But she says Michael he got the short end of the stick: She lost a mother, he lost a childhood. She also talked about how “we” abandoned him, how while he was trying to raise a family, “we all sat in judgment of him.” “There will never be anyone else like him again. He was a king.” She says she’s going to end on a positive note. “Michael Jackson was a human being but he was the King. Long live the King.”
Nanci Griffith’s Excellent New Album Released
Howie Klein at Huffington Post has the details on Nanci Griffith’s new album and performance at the Grammy Museum in LA this week, which is part of a new program called “The Drop.” She got a five minute standing ovation. Her album is a must-have, as he explains here.
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