Ever wondered why celeb faux pas are the most talked about news pieces? Because they have juice. A taste of rebelliousness. A taste of abnormality. People love everything that takes a path away from normal. The moral police, though, stand up and raise their hands in protest. This is what happened this year in the American Music Awards held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on the 22nd of this month. This Sunday night brought those moments which are still being talked about and being googled and youtubed and twittered, and of course blogged. Let us visit those moments too in this blog!

Faux Pas one is the fall. Jennifer Lopez while performing on stage had an almost terrible accident. Louboutins, the Pop diva’s new single, was being performed with a number of dancers and acts. During one of these acts, J-Lo lost her balance after jumping from the top of the human-stairs. That must been embarrasing huh?! But she didn’t show it. She went on performing the routine after that. Later, while talking to the press, she said “that was part of the choreography”. Really? That is difficult to believe!
This piece of news has got the maximum “view count” on youtube. More than 750,000 have viewed her 13 second fall video on youtube. Also, there are many blogs that have given a link to the whole act and it was disabled because of copyright claims by Dick Clark Productions, the AMA producers.

The second faux pas has pulled more than 6,500 results from googlenews. Type ‘Adam Lambert’ in a few days from today and he might just cross the 7 figure search result that google gives in his name. Because, this “happily gay guy” believes in the “freedom of expression and artistic integrity”. His new single, “For Your Entertainment” says so and so does he in his performance at the AMA. His performance included quite some vulgar moments that might have been “funny” for the nondescripts, “artistic freedom and expression” for Lambert and his fans, but “indecent or profane material” for the Federal Communications Commission. Reuters reported that ABC television received over 1,500 complaints for this “sexually-charged performance”. Michael Slezak from the Entertainment Weekly well describes this performance as “a carefully planned stab at dominating the post-AMA blogosphere/water-cooler discussion.”
In conclusion to this faux pas, a question might arise, did Lambert wow the people or did he initiate a tow for himself? That will depend on FCC, if they really will fine the channel and him or not.

Our last faux pas for AMA, 2009, is a now normal one. ‘Now normal’, because it seems like in every awards show there is always one or some of the celebs that go the “malfunction” way with her or their wardrobe. But, surprisingly, it is always an eyebrow raiser. This time, this crime was committed by Kate Hudson. Her plunging neckline was more than just plunging, more like winging actually! When she came on stage to announce the Black Eyed Peas performance next, with Nicole Kidman, her silver “glitzy” dress made heads turn and mobile phones active.
It is high time that Kate Hudson and all wardrobe malfunctioners to understand that these ceremonies might not be the best place for skin shows.

Faux pas over. But is that all?
Is it not that award ceremonies are about awards and winners and great performances? Why then do these social blunders get so much footage?
The reality is that they get footage. People watch them. Read them and talk about them. And later forget about them! That’s it.

Kanye West might just have a major problem and several other issues with Taylor Swift’s growing popularity, but who really cares? West like it or not this is definitely Swift’s year.

The country crooner Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson by picking up 5 leading awards as the King of Pop pocketed 4 nods at the American Music Awards. Swift’s 5 nods included the prestigious artist of the year award at the AMA held on Sunday.

The 19 year old country singer proved all MJ fans wrong who expected the Pop King to get a clean sweep. Swift have him a head to head competition in the ceremony’s final prize, the artist of the year category. Besides winning the favorite female artist in the pop/rock and country categories Swift also won favorite adult-contemporary artist award. “Feerless”, the 2008 release of Swift, was named favorite country album. Feerless became the best-selling release in the United States this year.

Among the other multiple winners hip-hop singer Jay-Z and the Black Eyed Peas won two each.

While accepting her award for the artist of the year, live via satellite from backstage at London’s Wembley Arena, Swift said, “Music has never been ultimately about competition”. Swift also added she feels its an “unimaginable honor” for her to be nominated in the same category as Jackson. The country crooner will be performing at a concert in Wembley Arena on Monday.

“I just want to say that music has never been ultimately about competition and to even be mentioned in a category with Michael Jackson who we’ll miss and love forever is an unimaginable honor”, she added. “And I just want to say I’m sending my love to the Jackson family and Janet”.

Jackson won four posthumous including favorite male artist in the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories. “Number Ones”, a hits collection of the Pop Star, was named favorite album in both those categories too. Jermaine, MJ’s brother, accepted the awards on the Late singer’s behalf.  “We love you, Michael. It’s not just about the winnings, the awards, it’s mainly the message. The message that Michael had will live on forever…and he saw good in everyone and he wanted them to do good.  To start with love and let’s love each other”, said Jermaine Jackson.

Eminem, who was nominated in 4 categories, went home empty handed. While Jay-Z won the favorite male artist and favorite album in the rap/hip-hop categories, Black Eyed Peas were named favorite group in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories.

Green Day, the punk rock trio, bagged the favorite alternative artist title. The favorite country group went to Rascal Flatts for the fourth year in a row.

Thanks to Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Whitney Houston who gave some of the most outrageous performances at the event. Janet with her medleys put the stage of fire.

This year it going to be tough for the Best Animated Film category in Oscar. The Academy Award organizers announced on Wednesday that record 20 animated films have been submitted for Oscar 2010. The list of films include studio hits like “Up” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” as well as independent ventures “Mary and Max”.

The Oscar awards in the Best animated film category was began by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2002. In the age of computer animation the number of award-hopeful cartoon flicks has only steadily risen every year since then.

The Disney/Pixar smash hit “Up” is up for the 2010 best animated feature film. The film is about a boy and an old man who float off to South America in a house tied with helium balloons. “Up” earned $507 million at global box offices and is also famed to be the best reviewed animated film of the year.

We vote for “Up” as one of the toughest contenders of the best animated feature film of the forthcoming Oscars. But surely the film will face strong competition from the widely-liked “Coraline”, which earned a sum of $121 million in worldwide ticket sales. Among the other big contenders for this category there are hits like “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. George Clooney movie, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, comedy “Planet 51″ and Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” are also in the list of 20 films vying for the Oscar, but have not been able to pull broad audience.

Following are the list of a complete list of the 20 films, out of which only 5 films will receive nomination:
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel”
“Astro Boy”
“Battle for Terra”
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
“The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”
“Mary and Max”
“The Missing Lynx”
“Monsters vs. Aliens”
“9″
“Planet 51″
“Ponyo”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
“Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure”
“A Town Called Panic”
“Up”

Thousands went bonkers after Beyonce appeared at the MTV Europe Music Awards in a racy red costume.

In the memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall the MTV Europe Music Awards was held in Berlin on Monday November 9. This was the 16th annual MTV Europe Music Awards held in the honor of the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall. Beyonce in her saucy red dress have been enough to make any wall go tumbling.

After performing the hit “Sweet Dreams” in red garters and a plunging neck-lined body suit, Beyonce undoubtedly became the star of the show. Besides giving a rocking performance the singer also swept the awards winning three major categories: best female artist, best song for “Halo,” and best video for “Single Ladies”.

While giving the acceptance speech for the best video, the singer thanked Jay-Z, her hubby. Jay-Z was also present in the audience and bagged an award as well, for Best Urban Act.

Other winners included Lady Gaga for best new act; Green Day, for best rock act; Eminem, for best male artist; German pop group Tokio Hotel for best group; and U2, for best live act. Lady Gaga was not present for the show.

Besides Beyonce’s heart stealing performance, the Irish rockers too stole the heart of many with a free 6-song concert in front of Germany’s Brandenburg Gate earlier Thursday. The band had earlier recorded “Achtung Baby” in Berlin.

It has been a little over four months after the shocking death of the king of pop, and now he has been nominated for a posthumous award at AMA. Michael Jackson has received a nomination for favorite male artist and favorite album in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories.

Besides MJ, the other performers up for nomination in the American Music Awards (AMAs) are Lady Gaga, rapper Eminem and rockers King of Leon. The country crooner Taylor Swift leads the nomination list with six nomination.

The AMAs, which will be presented on November 22nd at Los Angeles, will be decided based on the sale of each artists’ record and radio airplay. Based on the sales count the winners will be finally awarded after voting through online selection.

The late pop singer, Michael Jackson, is up with five nominations at the American Music Awards. These nominations also include a posthumous artist of the year. The “Thriller” singer will face tough competition from some of the very popular singers of the present in the key categories.

The American Music Awards (AMAs) will have a live telecast on ABC network of America on 22nd November night. Fans will be able to vote for their favorite singer or performer through online voting system.

MJ has the credit of winning most number of AMAs till date amounting to 20 till date as a solo artist. The Moon Walker has also won an artist of the century award in AMA earlier. The “Thriller” album of the late pop king won 8 nods in 1983. This record win of Jackson was leveled by Whitney Houston only after 12 years.

Among his other prominent ideas the most mentionable ones are his 13 Grammy wins. The singer has also the fame to be included in the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.

The Black Eyed Peas, along with Alicia Keys and Jennifer Lopez, who are also nominated in AMA, are expected to perform in the ceremony.

Barack Obama, the President of United States of America has been declared as the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Obama will be award the prestigious prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.

Followed by the breaking news sharp reactions flowed in from people all over the globe using social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Some supported the decision of the Nobel Prize committee, but most opposed and raised questions on the issue. There were comments, from people using the social networking sites, that said there were more deserving people than the President who joined office about 9 months back. Some even said that it was an early award for the President and that the prize will keep reminding him of his duty towards his nation as well as the world. Some even showed a little fear and warned the President of Kayne West, who, they feel, might land up at the ceremony just to declare that Beyonce deserved it more.

The Committee had its own explanation and said the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President for his  vision of and work for “a world without nuclear weapons”. The Nobel committee also added that Mr. Obama’s leadership “dialogue and negotiations” can bring a change to the the world and can be used as resolving tool during “the most difficult international conflicts”.

A sum of $1.5 million will be handed over to President Obama as a Prize money on December 10.

Whether people like it or not I think it’s good that President Obama won the Noble peace prize. At least the microblogging sites come alive with millions of creative and witty comments.

Kate Perry agrees on twitter. She will be hosting the MTV European Music Awards again this year. “RIGHT! I’m hosting the MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS AGAIN! This time w/MORE outfits, MORE antics! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it eh? YAY!!!” Her excited tweet says. This year the even will be held in Berlin at the O2 World on November 5.

The MTV European Music Awards recognizes the most admired music in Europe in the year. It was held in Liverpool last year which was hosted by Perry. The show saw Perry pulling hilarious tricks and riding on a “giant cherry Chapstick”. Must be because of such a huge success that MTV chose to bring her back again this year. The co-executive producer and SVP of the Talent and Music, MTV Networks International, Bruce Gilmer accepts that Kate Perry was the name that “kept coming back to” them for the hosting of the awards show as the “first choice for this year”.

The American 24 year old country-slash-pop-star-slash-songwriter is overjoyed with the news as her twitter post reveals. Adding to this she is nominated for the Best Music Video for “Waking Up In Vegas” alongside Lady Gaga, Shakira, Beyonce and Leona Lewis. She is all set to do something much bigger this year.

In the past Perry has had quite some good times with MTV EMA. She won the Best New Act award last year and showed the world her “world wide appeal” as praised by Gilmer in her hosting of the event. She now becomes the first star ever to host the MTV European Music Awards for the 2nd consecutive year. This has never happened to MTV EMA in it’s 15 years of the celebration of music.

Looking forward to the awards show? It promises to be bigger, much bigger … how excited are you?

The scheduled tour of Kanye West and Lady Gaga has has an unscheduled demise. This tour was going to start from the 10th of november this year and was dubbed as one of the most remuer’ creating experience among all tours.

The announcement was made in New York on Thursday by Live Nation, who were organizing this event. In the announcement no explanation for the cancellation was given. It was just said that the tickets already bought would be refunded. Those bought on the net or by phone would be refunded on their own, automatically, while the ones bought from a counter could get their money back from the counter they bought from.

“Fame Kills”, as the tour was called was to start at Phoenix, curl 34 places around the US and Canada and end in Dallas on the 24th of January 2010. It is quite strange that the tour announced just two months ago would see such an untimely end.

The Grammy Rap awardee, West doesn’t need anymore humiliations after his spunk (to put it mildly) visit to Taylor Swift on the MTV VMA stage a few weeks ago. That incident did some serious collateral damage to his image. Pretty much like the name of this tour. He killed his fame by busting Swift’s award speech and declaring “Single Ladies” by Beyonce as the “best” video.

From then on, life doesn’t seem to be “sweet dreams” for our 34 year old rap-artist. On “The Jay Leno Show”, last month, West agrees that he had blundered big time and hurt “somebody else”. He wants to take time off and “just analyze” how he woulld be getting “through the rest of this life” and how he could improve himself.

That is some serious thinking dude. Now that your tour is off the hook, it’s the perfect time to mull over everything you want to “analyze”.

Teary Winners and Funny Speeches

In the part 2 of the Emmy Coverage we bring you all the winners of the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 2009.

The winning started with the Best Supporting Actress, Comedy which was given to Kristin Chenoweth, for the ABC cancelled show “Pushing Daisies”, who came on stage and gave the winning speech howling away. She thanked Emmy for giving this award to a show that is over. She also made it clear that she was unemployed and wanted to work in shows like “Mad Men”, “30 Rock” and “The Office”.

The next award went to Two and half Men supporting actor Jon Cryer who was overjoyed with the win. Emotionally he declared that before winning the award he thought that award ceremonies were “shallow tokens of momentary popularity” but now he believed that “they are the only true measure of a person’s worth as a human being”. Personal comment: Talk about every person who didn’t win! Feeling sorry for Harris actually!

Toni Collete (”United States of Tara”) and Alec Baldwin (”30 Rock”) were adjudged the Best Leading Actress and Actor for a Comedy show. Rob Lowe who was on stage to give away the award to the Best Leading Man got to play the supporting role in Alex Baldwin’s gag – “I’d trade this (award) to look like him (Lowe)”!

“The Office” won the Best Directing, Comedy (Jeffrey Blitz). The Best Guest Stars, Comedy were taken away by Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake for Saturday Night Live. Best Writing award went to the episode “Reunion” of “30 Rock” (Matt Hubbarb). 30 Rock also won the award for the Outstanding Comedy Series.

In the Reality category, the Best Reality Show host was given to Jeff Probst for “Survivor”. He gave a little speech which ended with a nice moral – “The adventure you are ready for is the one you get. You only live once, go for it!”. The Best Reality Competition Show went to “The Amazing Race” which was it’s 7th consecutive time.

In the Miniseries category, Little Dorritt swept away maximum awards – Best Miniseries, Director (Dearbhal Walsh) and Writer (Andrew Davis). The Best TV movie was won by Grey Gardens, that also got their hands on the Best Lead Actress (Jessica Lange), Supporting Actor (Ken Howard). In her speech Jessica Lange thanked quite a few people among which included co-star Drew Barrymore who laughed and cried and applauded for her down from her seat in the audience. Brendan Gleeson won the Best Actor in this category for his role of Winston Churchill in “Into the Storm” and the Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashil took away the award for the Best Supporting Actress for “House of Saddam”.

Finally coming to the Drama catergory, the Best Leading Actress, Drama was won by Glenn Close (again!!) for the show “Damages”. Close was close to tears accepting the award and says that this character (of a hard-hitting lawyer) is “the character of my lifetime”.

Bryan Cranston won the Best Actor award for his role in “Breaking Bad” on AMC.

The show’s last award for the Best Drama Series was given to 2 times winner “Mad Men” of the private channel AMC. Accepting the award, creator Matthew Weiner stated that he must be the “only person in the room with complete creative freedom”.

The 2009 Emmy Awards had a lot of surprises to unfold. Both old and new dominated the  61st Primetime Emmys. It was a big surprise when AMC’s “Mad Men” won for the second year in a row in the drama series category and “30 Rock” won for the third consecutive year for comedy series category.

Glenn Close got the lead actress award for FX’s “Damages” and Bryan Cranston for AMC’s “Breaking Bad” for the 2nd consecutive year. These two awards came as real shocks.

There were big winners like PBS’ “Little Dorrit”, with seven awards, HBO’s “Grey Gardens”, which took six and NBC’s “30 Rock”, which won five. There were 20 various shows that took home the 28 Emmys handed out on the Sunday.

The three hour long show was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris. He spiked jokes in between the musical numbers and announcement of awards in various categories.

NBC’s “30 Rock” had 22 nominations in the prestigious award show. But as the night proceeded it went upto winning only 5 awards including: Matt Hubbard for writing and Alec Baldwin, who won for lead actor in a comedy for the second year in a row.

Tina Fey, the creator of the show explained while she collected her statute, “Whew! That was a nail-biter”. Fey also added, “The night was full of interesting and unexpected things, and I thought that didn’t bode well for us”.

With 21 Emmy wins HBO continued its lead and domination in the award show.  “Grey Gardens” was named as the best made-for-TV movie. Jessica Lange, who played the lead role in the movie as  an eccentric relative of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy, took time to believe that she has actually won the award.

The 60 year old Lange said while collecting her award, “I can’t believe I’m standing here”.

The 54 year old Brendan Gleeson took home the award for actor in a miniseries or movie for HBO’s “Into the Storm,” in which he played Winston Churchill. Shohreh Aghdashloo, 57, won the  Supporting actress for the pay channel’s “House of Saddam”.

Michael Emerson bagged the title for supporting actor in a drama series for ABC’s “Lost,” and Cherry Jones won supporting actress for playing the female president of the United States on Fox’s “24″.