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Frattini says Jackson left the stadium immediately after the incident and never really explained to CBS or MTV staff onsite what happened, though the star later issued several public apologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_20175']According to the film, people who worked on the halftime show recall watching a rehearsal with Timberlake where he pulled her skirt off, concluding it didn’t work. MTV was producing the halftime show; with a roster of performers that included Nelly, Kid Rock and P. Diddy, the lineup had already spooked the NFL and the network, which made it clear they didn’t want anything overly risqué to occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film notes news reports implying Jackson’s stylist may have purchased new wardrobe items, including a sunburst-shaped nipple shield, after the rehearsal. 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They also didn’t speak to the stylist who allegedly bought Jackson’s new wardrobe items. (\u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2021/04/11/justin-timberlake-set-up-wardrobe-malfunction-to-one-up-britney-spears-stylist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">That stylist, Wayne Scot Lukas, told \u003cem>The New York Post\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in April that the stunt was Timberlake’s idea, as a way to show up Britney Spears, Madonna and Christina Aguilera, who had kissed onstage at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13892744']As the film notes, the day after the halftime show, Jackson did issue a written apology, which said in part: “The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals … MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended—including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.” She issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavUakg4S74&t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a similar statement on video\u003c/a> two days after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, who actually came up with the idea? And did the stunt go off as planned, or was the intention only to reveal her bra, as Timberlake and Jackson’s representatives later claimed? The film’s inability to answer some of these basic questions definitively is disappointing and robs the program of some power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film documents how a deluge of media reaction focused on criticizing Jackson, sometimes referencing race and gender in dismissive, insulting ways. It also suggests another reason Timberlake survived the controversy because he apologized to Moonves in person and distanced himself from Jackson in his initial public statements, essentially allowing her to take the full brunt of the negative publicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timberlake offered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/arts/music/justin-timberlake-statement-britney-spears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vague apology on Instagram\u003c/a> to both Spears and Jackson in February, admitting he “benefited from a system that condones misogyny and racism.” Of course, a better apology might have been to say this in interviews for any of the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> documentaries on either artist. But the film also notes Timberlake and Jackson share the same publicist, indicating they must not be too cross with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the documentary does well, is explain how controversy over the incident—which Frattini admits happened so quickly she didn’t initially notice it—was fueled in part by conservative activists who had been advocating stricter crackdowns on TV and radio content for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, broadcast TV and radio outlets dominated the media landscape. The Federal Communications Commission had the power to fine broadcasters for presenting material it found to be indecent, and eventually tried to levy a $550,000 fine against CBS, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/court-tosses-out-550000-fine-on-cbs-stations-for-airing-janet-jackson-wardrobe-malfunction/2011/11/02/gIQADvDYgM_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eventually thrown out\u003c/a> by an appeals court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_108058']In modern times, with a media landscape dominated by streaming services, cable channels and online platforms not regulated by the FCC, it almost feels quaint to see a time when a flash of nudity drew such condemnation. Especially at a sporting event which features the violence of professional football and the sexiness of scantily-clad cheerleaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be the biggest reason why this documentary feels less impactful than other projects urging us to reconsider past scandals distorted by sexism and racism; unlike Spears’ conservatorship, what happened to Jackson is not ongoing as the film airs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/janet-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She survived the scandal, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u003c/a> and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/janet-jackson-documentary-1231938/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a two-night documentary of her own\u003c/a> set to air on A&E and Lifetime early next year, promising to tell her life story her way. And the concern about conservative crackdowns on media content has been obliterated by the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, \u003cem>Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson\u003c/em> serves as an important reminder of how differently the nation viewed sexual content on TV less than two decades ago, sparked by a high-profile stunt that pushed society’s buttons in ways none of the performers seemed to anticipate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=New+York+Times+doc+on+Janet+Jackson%27s+Super+Bowl+scandal+leaves+questions+unanswered&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\">\u003cstrong>Updated July 30, 2021 at 8:42 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>From the moment MTV launched on Aug. 1, 1981, it was bound to rattle the nerves of parents and moral crusaders. In its first decade on air, provocative videos and performances from pop stars including Madonna and George Michael invited attention and ignited controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it’s fairly established by now that the cable channel-turned-entertainment brand stopped being the home of music videos some time ago, its contribution to the television landscape transcends music and reality TV. By the 1990s, the network’s biggest stars also included its resident pair of animated knuckleheads: Beavis and Butt-Head.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Critic-proof, crudely drawn rebels go pop\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13885553']The show about brain dead teens and their pubescent whims debuted on MTV in 1993 and was quick to catch flack for everything from its rougher animation style to the impulsive actions of its stars. Critics called the duo \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vhPukfBAwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“crude,” “ugly” and “self-destructive.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kris Brown became the head writer of \u003cem>Beavis and Butt-Head \u003c/em>in 1994. He says when he was assigned his first episode, he described the show to his own father as being “about these two 13-year-olds that are really stupid and they’re just self-destructive. They’re really into heavy metal, and I mean I don’t think it’s for you really, but I’m really excited about it.” His dad paused and, as Brown recalls, said, “Well, do you plan on writing for anything else?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the show was critic-proof. \u003cem>Beavis and Butt-Head \u003c/em>became MTV’s highest rated show at one time and expanded into a 1996 feature film—\u003cem>Beavis and Butt-Head Do America\u003c/em>. The movie got two thumbs up from critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and featured multiple cameos, including one from super-fan David Letterman as a roadie who most certainly sired Butt-Head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRnVQ4NBXko\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A hub for experimentation and innovation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Beavis and Butt-Head \u003c/em>may have been a cartoon, but it was also central to MTV’s identity. Animation, it turns out, was baked into the network’s foundation, says Fred Seibert, who helped develop MTV’s initial branding campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of realized that in many ways cartoons, like \u003cem>Looney Tunes\u003c/em>, were kind of like the kid equivalent of rock ‘n’ roll,” Seibert explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For animators who wanted to work outside of TV conventions at the time, MTV became a destination and a laboratory. According to Maureen Furniss, who is an animation historian at the California Institute of the Arts, “[MTV] showed people in the public things they had never seen before in animation and gave opportunities to a lot of independent animators and experimental animators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most important of those experiments were shorts that served as the station’s promotional IDs: the “M” of the MTV logo morphing into various forms, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrUfMqRlYpk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freedom given to the creators of these promos by MTV’s marketing teams helped serve as a prototype for how the network approached its longer animated shows, says Abby Terkuhle. He became head of the network’s on-air promotions—and eventually oversaw MTV animation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MTV animation was truly an outgrowth and extension of MTV on-air promotion and MTV on-air promotion was incredible. It was a creative laboratory, ” Terkuhle says. “We were not only allowed to take risks, but encouraged to take risks and the executives had our back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900491\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/gettyimages-51100452-c722f51d99ff37658e9eaeaf95e1c78e4ba2732a-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Beavis and Butt-Head' creator Mike Judge (left) and animation director Yvette Kaplan (center) work on the production of the 1996 motion picture, 'Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.' From its debut in the early 1980s, MTV proved itself to be a pioneer in adult animation.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/gettyimages-51100452-c722f51d99ff37658e9eaeaf95e1c78e4ba2732a-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/gettyimages-51100452-c722f51d99ff37658e9eaeaf95e1c78e4ba2732a-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/gettyimages-51100452-c722f51d99ff37658e9eaeaf95e1c78e4ba2732a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/gettyimages-51100452-c722f51d99ff37658e9eaeaf95e1c78e4ba2732a-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/gettyimages-51100452-c722f51d99ff37658e9eaeaf95e1c78e4ba2732a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/gettyimages-51100452-c722f51d99ff37658e9eaeaf95e1c78e4ba2732a.jpg 1838w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ creator Mike Judge (left) and animation director Yvette Kaplan (center) work on the production of the 1996 motion picture, ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.’ From its debut in the early 1980s, MTV proved itself to be a pioneer in adult animation. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That ethos of a creative laboratory that took risks drew show creators to pitch and push for ideas that wouldn’t end up elsewhere on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MTV’s first full animated program \u003cem>Liquid Television\u003c/em> premiered in 1991 and was a free-flowing showcase of all kinds of animation. It included the cable debut of \u003cem>Beavis and Butt-Head \u003c/em>in the short “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0HpG7Nx7fA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frog Baseball\u003c/a>“—an animation festival favorite at the time—as well as parodies of existing TV genres such as game shows and soap operas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2qcPwZFdQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Liquid Television\u003c/em> also included bold experiments in narrative storytelling—and introduced the visually sumptuous world of \u003cem>Aeon Flux\u003c/em>—a spy who has since become a cult icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Chung, who developed \u003cem>Aeon Flux \u003c/em>for MTV, says, “It had to be something you could not see anywhere else. And so that really encouraged me to make something that was as loaded with as much innuendo, making it a point to make it as transgressive and as eye-catching as I could make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Self-aware ’90s teen angst and claymation wars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>From the the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, MTV also ran its own animation studio which produced multiple series—including a \u003cem>Beavis and Butt-Head\u003c/em> spinoff that gave audiences another iconic character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Daria\u003c/em> premiered in 1997 and was a show unafraid to bite the hand that feeds it. Its incisive main character regularly went after the superficialities and commodification of teen life—a tendency MTV itself has long been accused of. But the show could also offer poignant coming-of-age moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0WBODNzyCg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of just went with the typical stories that every show about teenagers covers, but because it was from the eyes of Daria, it ended up with a completely different tone, which was funny and deadpan kind of humor,” says \u003cem>Daria\u003c/em> co-creator Susie Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MTV animation wasn’t only hand-drawn images. The network also produced a hit claymation series called \u003cem>Celebrity Deathmatch\u003c/em> in which mock-ups of celebrities took each other on in the wrestling ring and fought, well, to the death. The pilot episode aired at the same time as the Super Bowl halftime show in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hDNXE0v8kU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, MTV hasn’t had the same track record in animation. Other networks and streaming services have become home to even bolder cartoons intended for older audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But MTV Entertainment president Chris McCarthy says you shouldn’t count MTV out just yet. McCarthy says MTV is developing new animated ideas as well as rebooting a few old favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Animation has been critical to the MTV brand from its inception, ” says McCarthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the shows coming back are \u003cem>Beavis and Butt-Head\u003c/em> (its second reboot for the record) as well as a series reimagining \u003cem>Daria \u003c/em>character Jodie as a Gen Z college grad entering the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think the animation and its rebirth is just the beginning of a next great chapter of this legacy,” says McCarthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs&list=PLy2PCKGkKRVZVyzPfNj_R-aYn4IztIyT-\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Most recently she published an autobiographical collection of essays, \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/rockyrivera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Snakeskin, \u003c/em>\u003c/a>which takes a look back at her storied career and personal life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera, who was raised in San Francisco, uses the book to express the importance of restorative justice practices. Addressing conflict without using punitive models is something that works in the classroom and the community, as well as in art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major part of restorative justice is being accountable for past actions, and growing out of those behaviors in order to come anew. Rocky Rivera likens that process to a snake shedding its skin– it also parallels her process of going through a period of personal, artistic and spiritual growth. Thus, snakeskin is a multilayered term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, I talk to Rocky Rivera about family, community, accountability and growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897105\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897105\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A close shot of Rocky Rivera's hands, holding a small snake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/rocky-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close shot of Rocky Rivera’s hands, holding a small snake. \u003ccite>(Vivian Chen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Rocky Rivera.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Part of restorative justice is identifying when you’ve been wronged. A few of your essays point out unnamed people who have caused harm. They’re academics who used your labor for free, community members who made hollow promises and festival organizers who shortchanged you on performance time…. You were getting some heat off your chest. Bring me into your thinking behind those essays.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: I feel like my story and my voice is all I really have, and when these people are in positions of power – which every single person that I called out was in a position of power – well then I have the right to speak on how that that power was either manipulated or abused or taken advantage of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: In the academic system, there is this reliance on community artists to forever be available and expecting you to do things for free, for exposure and come to your class and talk about your work without any kind of pay. And that’s the exploitation in itself. Especially artists like me, women, Asian-American women who are forever expected to accommodate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: It was restorative for me to speak on that because I wanna make sure that it doesn’t happen to any young folks or any people that are like me. It’s a cautionary tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: I appreciate the fact that these shots at power holders are interspersed between essays where you’re acknowledging the powers that you had and where you failed to be responsible with your powers, almost apology pieces about some of your lyrics: Pop Killer, Brown Babies or even clarifying some of the lyrics that might have been misconstructed or misconstrued. So how does restorative justice apply to words?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: Oh, my gosh. Well, words are everything. Words are my business. There’s always a better word for something. But the reasons why we say things are really mired in how we were raised, our circumstances. So in these 10 years, I’ve turned from somebody who was a product of my environment, a product of my circumstances, to somebody who understands that I can influence my circumstances now because I’m in a position of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: And I’m trying to get to that point where I write really accurately and I do no harm. But in the past couple of years, I was careless and I had to address it because here’s the thing about restorative justice. You can’t expect somebody to be vulnerable, to be open, to make mistakes if you’re not willing to do that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: I’m not going to be 100% woke. That’s not going to happen. I’m from the Bay. I listen to Too $hort. I listen to Keak Da Sneak. I’m just not gonna ever be 100% woke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: The realness is that we are where we come from and until we can accept everything that we are, then we can never accept each other’s humanity. And I wanted to be the first to say I’ve made a mistake. I made a mistake and I learned from it. Thanks to my community, not despite my community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Rivera: And consciousness and politicization is a journey….Really because the revolution starts at home. And I wanted to make myself an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: The second essay in your book is about being an educator in Oakland, through working at the nonprofit Oakland Kids First– where we actually taught together. So, that line your book about remembering the smell of pizza in the classrooms really brought me back… In that essay, you also covered what restorative justice looks like in real time: getting and giving respect to students, creating safe spaces, changing campus culture through campaigns. 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"content": "\u003cp>On this early Tuesday morning, we sit facing a yawning precipice: the longest possible stretch of time in which no one is called upon to watch MTV’s Video Music Awards. Bask in the sweet, creamy silence of it all. We’ve earned it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, it was a better-than-usual year for the stalwart awards show, which has been running since 1984 and tends to be best known for its moments of outrageousness. (Think Kanye West rushing the stage while Taylor Swift attempted to give a victory speech in 2009, or Miley Cyrus twerking alongside Robin Thicke four years later.) This year, the handing out of trophies barely registered, but a handful of performances and moments still shone through the din. Here’s a quick rundown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1.\u003cstrong> Missy Elliott got her moment, and then some.\u003c/strong> The hip-hop legend won a wildly overdue Video Vanguard award — the VMAs equivalent of a Hall of Fame induction — and celebrated with a terrific medley that featured “The Rain,” “Hot Boyz,” “Get Ur Freak On,” “Work It,” “Pass That Dutch” and “Lose Control.” Elliott received a lovely bundle of testimonials from the likes of Lizzo, adulation from an ecstatic crowd and the opportunity to give a gracious speech in which she heaped praise on God, her dancers and other sources of strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/i9I-ut1TXoA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cstrong>Lizzo’s star turn has only begun.\u003c/strong> Though the incalculably appealing breakout star went home empty-handed, trophy-wise, her medley of “Truth Hurts” and “Good As Hell” was a huge standout for the night — a win that’ll do a lot more for her staying power than some statuette. Flanked by her marvelous team of dancers, Lizzo sang her guts out while performing in the figurative shadow of a gigantic CGI rear end, a move that was funny and raucous without crowding out her moments of poignancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Uo0RK_olDb4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Even more than usual, the actual awards barely qualified as an afterthought.\u003c/strong> All you need to know about the VMAs — the awards themselves — is that the prize for Artist of the Year was announced in a voiceover in passing, the way you’d quickly acknowledge the winner of, like, Best Costuming in an R&B Video by a Duo or Group. (Ariana Grande won Artist of the Year, but since she wasn’t in the room, why bother?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Speaking of which: \u003cstrong>They offloaded Video of the Year and Song of the Year smack in the middle of the telecast.\u003c/strong> About 10 years after Kanye West infamously interrupted her VMAs speech — you know, “I’ma let you finish,” that whole thing — Taylor Swift took Video of the Year for “You Need to Calm Down,” while Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus won Song of the Year for their eternal “Old Town Road” remix. Then the show just kept rolling along for another hour and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5.\u003cstrong> It was a big night for Taylor Swift in general.\u003c/strong> The pop star, whose new album \u003cem>Lover\u003c/em> came out Friday, opened the night with a medley of “You Need to Calm Down” and “Lover,” filling the screen with drag queens, vibrant colors and all the CGI emoji fit to print. When she won Video for Good — the VMAs’ prize honoring socially conscious messaging — Swift shrewdly let collaborator Todrick Hall give the speech. She even wound up adjacent to one of the night’s big memeable moments: presenter John Travolta \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PopCraveMusic/status/1166165376436191232\">handing the Video of the Year trophy to Jade Jolie\u003c/a>, presumably thinking the \u003cem>Drag Race\u003c/em> veteran was Swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/eIRCskNRTDY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. \u003cstrong>Latin music got its due.\u003c/strong> Outside of, say, the Latin Grammys, Latin music tends to get short shrift in major music awards shows; it might get a medley here or there, but tends to get consigned to the margins. The 2019 VMAs understood what a creative and commercial force Latin music has become, and smartly let the music weave its way throughout the telecast as a result. Rosalía, J Balvin, Bad Bunny and Camila Cabello all performed, while Cardi B’s live-wire goofiness was a dominant presence over the course of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/qOSSmwK-PR0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. \u003cstrong>Normani is next.\u003c/strong> The Fifth Harmony singer performed a grabby, impeccably choreographed re-creation of her “Motivation” video, turning heads late in a telecast that had begun to sag. It’s the year of Lil Nas X, and Billie Eilish, and Lizzo, and Megan Thee Stallion — and it’s the year of Normani, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/RQJGqgq7MeE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. \u003cstrong>Lil Nas X isn’t done yet.\u003c/strong> Okay, so “Old Town Road” has \u003cem>finally\u003c/em> been dethroned after a record-setting run atop the \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em> Hot 100. But the genre-smashing, social-media-savvy star has more ideas to burn, if his sly and funny VMAs performance is any indication. The charming, lighthearted intro to his seemingly \u003cem>TRON\u003c/em>-inspired performance of “Panini” had some of the night’s biggest (only?) laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/wC53WdkG44w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. \u003cstrong>Why don’t they let Joe Jonas perform onsite?\u003c/strong> In 2017, Joe Jonas’ band DNCE performed at the VMAs — sort of — by playing a set in Las Vegas that got stitched into the telecast from afar. This year, The Jonas Brothers returned to the VMAs after an 11-year absence, but were consigned to yet another stage, this time in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Is Joe Jonas not allowed within 1,000 yards of Shawn Mendes or something?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/BjMQC_bnaNE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003cstrong>Wrong host, wrong time.\u003c/strong> Sebastian Maniscalco is a hugely successful comedian who sells out multi-night runs at Madison Square Garden. He’s a big name. But his opening monologue — in which he snidely mocked trigger warnings and safe spaces and participation trophies and whatnot — felt like the sort of tired, these-kids-nowadays diatribe you’d expect from your least favorite uncle. It’s not that the bit was too edgy, or somehow hurtful, but that it was thuddingly predictable and utterly \u003cem>played out\u003c/em>. The night quickly bloomed into a world-straddling three-hour pansexual fantasia of self-love and acceptance, which only made it clearer how out of his element Maniscalco was. 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When she won Video for Good — the VMAs’ prize honoring socially conscious messaging — Swift shrewdly let collaborator Todrick Hall give the speech. 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