American Music Awards

Last night, airing on ABC were the American Music Awards. I don't usually watch these things, but last nights performers were all musicians I liked, and wanted to see live, some of them for the first time.

A line up of 17, yes, 17 performers including acts ranging from; R&B acts like Whitney Houston,Pop acts Jay-Z (no I do not count him as a rap act when Alicia Keys is in the song) and Rihanna, (Alternative) Rock acts such as Green Day and Daughtry, even country acts like Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood wowed the crowd with what seemed like a never-ending list of performances. (see full list of performers here)

Some memorable acts were the "returns" of both Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez, who in my opinion was one of the best performances of the night, debuting her new song "Louboutins".

(Even though she literally fell down, she managed to keep her cool and continue on with her "comeback performance".)

Rihanna on the other hand played a collaboration of songs off her new album called "Rated R". This was her first performance after the Chris Brown incident, and she came back strong with a powerful pairing of new songs.
(Plus her super cool jacket that reflected the strobe and laser lights, was actually the sickest thing i've ever seen.)

The only part of the show that really bothered me, out of all the performers and nominees, was the fact that Taylor Swift won Artist of the Year over Michael Jackson, it's true that he wouldn have won it because he died, but his death did have an enormous impact on the musical world. Swift was intelligent enough to mention the Jackson's in her acceptance speech (via video-feed from London), which consoled me a little bit.

After that, Adam Lambert, who some say went too far, closed the show in his break-out performance also, which was of his new single "For Your Entertainment". I say it was brilliance and confidence, and that's awesome to have at the beginning of his sure to be fantastic career, following the footsteps of the sucessful post-American Idol artists.