mtv and britney spears

Whatever happened to good dare I say mind-blowing MTV award show performances? Seriously. The day Britney went crazy was the day MTV died. To put off the 16 pages I need to do by Thursday even further I was watching old school Britney on youtube. I was never a hardcore fan or even really that big of a fan but her dance moves were definitely something to watch. She had the most shocking VMA performances ever aside from the original "Like a Virgin" performance but the remake with her, Christina, and Madonna was a pretty good comeback to say the least. But seriously, does anyone even watch the MTV award shows anymore? if you do, do you watch them at all for the performances? Aside from last year's Britney "comeback" which everyone knew she was going to fail at and just wanted to watch her basically crash and burn...Which is pretty much the exact opposite reason we watched them in the beginning. We wanted to watch someone put on a spectacular show and no offense to anyone else but Britney always delivered. When you thought she couldn't beat the strip scene of "Satisfaction/Oops" she comes back and kisses Madonna. Which was pretty much the most talked about thing that year. It kind of makes you wonder that if she didn't go nuts what would she have topped that with. I mean of course now there's the new generation of Rihannas and Chris Browns but no offense to them...they're kind of dull. Don't get me wrong, I saw Rihanna live (for free) and she exceeded my expectations but during like award show perfomances it's all fireworks and fog machines and yawns. Chris Brown's dance moves are off the hook...but his songs? Not as catchy as "(You Drive Me) Crazy" or even "I'm a Slave 4 U." Britney had it down. She wasn't that good of a singer but good enough that the songs were catchy and got you going and she of course had the dancing nailed down. In fact, now that I think of it, people always diss the 90's with the boy bands and the pop princesses but at least they tried. Nowadays what do you see? Is anyone even really dancing that much? Or even singing? I am sick of people coming up with "songs" about jeans and boots with fur when it doesn't even come with a dance!! Even the dances of today: Soulja boy? What the fuck is that? Seriously. It's just a few feet taps and arm swings and a "superman." Come up with something more clever, please for the love of God. Even Justin Timberlake is turning ghetto. What is going on with this world? At least if you turn ghetto don't do the cheap dance moves just rap and make it good. Learn from Kanye West, goddamnit. I bet he could put on a show and by show I mean old school Britney VMA mind-blowingness.