Now they're on the news talking about what a great show the American Music Awards was and it was nothing but a major white out! The only Black person who performed on that show last night was grandma Diiana Ross and her daughter. I think Diana saw what time it was and brought her grandkids up on stage to add a little more color to the ceremony. I meran, no current Blacks graced that stage. I mean where was Usher, the Weekend, Mariah Carey, J. Cole, hell evn Lil Wayne and I can't stand his stupid ass! Selena Gomez was the only other non-white person to perform aside from grandma Ross and her daughter. Hell where was Ariana Grandi?!!? I already miss Dick Clark coz' since he's been dead his show keeps getting whiter and whiter and whiter every year. There are Black artisits out there who need to ber showcased too and I'm fuckin' sick of country getting mentioned every fuckin'' where and their fuckin' awards shows are un-apologetically segregated! I didn't watch the show, I just got the highlights from people I pay to keep up with this sort of stuff and am disgusted! Dick Clark wouldn't have done this this way, so whoever is in charge now the racist bastards need to lie down and die or something. Your setting America back again to the days of stupidity and racist ideology!
At least this thing had its heart in the right place.
In an age of widespread awards-show overload, nobody looks to the annual American Music Awards — broadcast live Sunday night on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles — for an authoritative diagnosis of what matters in pop music, never mind the larger culture that pop is supposed to reflect.
Unlike the Grammy Awards, the AMAs presents itself as a fan-voted event that recognizes the “favorite” over the “best” — which would be fine (maybe even preferable!) if those favorites didn’t seem more often than not to overlap with whoever was willing to show up and perform.
Yet as the last major awards production of the calendar year, the AMAs also command an enviable platform, one that sometimes leads it to luck into significance.
In 2016 the show took place days after the election of Donald Trump, which led acts as diverse as Green Day and Idina Menzel to seize the opportunity to talk politics before an audience of millions.
This year’s AMAs came amid unprecedented revelations of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry — a situation the show’s host, actor Tracee Ellis Ross, grappled with straightaway in her welcoming monologue by describing a movement started by “brave women” to “own our experiences, our bodies and our lives.”
And with performances by Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and the evening’s lifetime-achievement honoree, Diana Ross, the 2017 AMAs promised an effective antidote to Hollywood’s toxic masculinity.
“There’s gonna be some men singing, too,” Ellis Ross warned slyly at the top of the three-hour event. “Gotta get them in there, you know what I mean?”
How the American Music Awards tried to combat toxic masculinity
In an age of widespread awards-show overload, nobody looks to the annual American Music Awards — broadcast live Sunday night on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles — for an authoritative diagnosis of what matters in pop music, never mind the larger culture that pop is supposed to reflect.
Unlike the Grammy Awards, the AMAs presents itself as a fan-voted event that recognizes the “favorite” over the “best” — which would be fine (maybe even preferable!) if those favorites didn’t seem more often than not to overlap with whoever was willing to show up and perform.
Yet as the last major awards production of the calendar year, the AMAs also command an enviable platform, one that sometimes leads it to luck into significance.
In 2016 the show took place days after the election of Donald Trump, which led acts as diverse as Green Day and Idina Menzel to seize the opportunity to talk politics before an audience of millions.
This year’s AMAs came amid unprecedented revelations of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry — a situation the show’s host, actor Tracee Ellis Ross, grappled with straightaway in her welcoming monologue by describing a movement started by “brave women” to “own our experiences, our bodies and our lives.”
And with performances by Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and the evening’s lifetime-achievement honoree, Diana Ross, the 2017 AMAs promised an effective antidote to Hollywood’s toxic masculinity.
“There’s gonna be some men singing, too,” Ellis Ross warned slyly at the top of the three-hour event. “Gotta get them in there, you know what I mean?”
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