[lainie]

Among the first red carpet arrivals on the wire:

Taylor Swift, T-Pain, and that freaky guy who calls himself Cojo. And they're off...

[lainie]

Nominees

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2008/categories.jhtml

[Texas4ever]

OK even my 16 year old daughter said this is “stupid”

doesnt watch anymore.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Vote or Die?

[dfwgator]

I’ll pass.

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

Is there no getting away from Miley Cyrus? Walmart has become Miley Cyrus Land. I wish I could buy a filter.

[RadioCirca1970]

Remember when MTV used to cool and edgy and actually play Rock N Roll videos...it quit being relevant in 1985....sad

[InterceptPoint]

For those of you that follow this sort of thing I have a question:

Was there any really good music created last year?

Something that my grandchildren will be playing and singing long after the Beetles, ABBA, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles are long forgotten. If so, I would like to hear about it. I spend all my time reading FR posts so I really don't have the time to put into following the music scene. I'm sure you all understand.

[Vision]

That Obama picture is frightening.

Guess you’re not into Bill Cunningham on Sunday nights huh? He has great guests.

[Hildy]

This from a yahoo live web blog that was going on during the show:

6:09pm - Russell Brand, apparently wearing Amy Winehouse's discarded beehive wig and Ashlee Simpson's pre-pregnancy skinny jeans, struts onstage to an Oasis song. That's the first time Oasis have been played on MTV since 1995! Well done, lads. Anyway, Russ wastes no time in blatantly plugging Barack Obama and calling Prez Dubya a "retarded cowboy." The press room collectively cheers. Guess the stereotype is true: We media types really are a liberal bunch.