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# Fugs and Fabs: The VMAs Telecast
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-and-fabs-the-vmas-telecast/
- Published: 2016-08-29T17:00:14.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-30T22:45:59.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:49

## Beyonce in Elie Saab

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2016/08/gettyimages-597576634.jpg)

I understand Beyonce wanting to look golden, but this does her no justice. Also, the fact that it seems to match her hair color just gives her strands that crispy hyper-chlorinated look.

I'll say this, though: At least she's consistent. In that I consistently am unhappy with the clothes she picks. However, once we get to the next slide, this Metallic Dijon creation will seem like a warm memory.

## Beyonce in Yolan Cris.

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597574758.jpg)

Man, Miss Havisham is getting FRISKY.

Also, please note that this IS actually from a bridal collection.

## Rihanna in Hood By Air

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597565622.jpg)

This HAS to be Hood By Air's take on the Moon Man. Right? Is there any other way to explain why 70 percent of this looks like a repurposed space suit?

## Rihanna

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597574832.jpg)

Here, Jessica said to me, "Rihanna has done some INTERESTING things to her legs tonight." A Fug National joked on Twitter that these look like boots that totally stayed up on the dressing room but didn't respond well to activity. They look like the wilting ears of a very tired bunny rabbit.

## Rihanna

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597568330.jpg)

I'm told she found love in a hopeless place, but I also think that's where she found 90 percent of her clothes.

## Rihanna

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597576164.jpg)

But she's going to be WONDERFUL in "The King and I."

## 2016 MTV Video Music Awards - Show

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597577876.jpg)

"Are you there, God? It's me, Drake. if you can get me ONE MORE NIGHT with Rihanna, I think I can really convince her this time. Also, when will I get my period? Text if you get this. Thanks."

## Ariana Grande

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597566392.jpg)

For some reason, Ariana Grande's performance began in a quasi-spin class, which I guess IS where I am most likely to sit through her entire song, so sure. Okay.

## Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597566022.jpg)

And then it became a Barbie rave.

## Halsey

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597574934-e1472446618611.jpg)

Halsey performed with some group called The Chainsmokers -- amusing given that anti-smoking ads ran in EVERY commercial break during the show -- and he basically felt up her abdomen while her boobs fell out of the top she clearly bought on a shopping spree with Bebe Rexha.

## Jimmy Fallon

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597577632.jpg)

Michael Phelps seemed VERY amused when Fallon came out as Ryan Lochte, but the bit itself fell really flat. Jimmy can do a very serviceable bit of late-night cotton candy entertainment, but once the likes of John Oliver has taken on Ryan Lochte -- via something as simple as a beautifully done montage of Ryan's dumbest moments on TV -- there's just no way Jimmy can add anything new to the discussion. As much as I abhor every other entry into his collected works, Seth MacFarlane is the only person who has made me laugh doing a Ryan Lochte imitation, and it was when he co-hosted on SNL (let's assume someone else wrote it for him) and they made a joke about him calling the Matthew Perry show "Goon" instead of "Go On," and then after he was corrected, he casually mispronounced "good" as "go-odd." Wow, it's hard to describe that bit without it sounding lame, but trust me: It worked.

All of which is to say that it wasn't Jimmy's finest hour, but he certainly wasn't alone in that regard.

## Key and Peele

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597569682.jpg)

I have long been advocating on Twitter for Key and Peele to host the Emmys, or the Globes, and instead they got the VMAs. It feels like a rotten consolation prize of some kind, and maybe it WAS, and so they didn't give it their best? Or maybe it's not their milieu. I can sympathize. It wouldn't be mine. I NEVER feel older than while trying to watch this telecast.

The gag was that they were vapid social-media celebrities, and their take on the character was VERY much in keeping with how all of MTV's TV personalities -- and VMAs co-hosts -- actually behave. Which made it sort of delicious when these two would parody how asinine they all are, and then THROW to one of them, who seemed to have no idea they were the butt of a joke. But it also meant that a) the bit got stale, because when you behave annoyingly on purpose for THAT LONG, you yourself become as annoying as the thing you're imitating; and b) it put a lot more pressure on them to be hilarious. An ongoing gag only works for as long as you nail it, and theirs ran dry two minutes in. Oh, Key and Peele. Let us hope this gets buried in a vault somewhere. They should put it in there themselves and then put a gymnastics vault on top of it and have Simone Biles wail on it a few times just for good measure.

## Britney Spears

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597570630.jpg)

When someone does a synchro swimming routine inspired by this night, they will have NO trouble deciding what to wear.

I feel like my comments on Britney's performances are the same every time. I love her, I cheer for her, I ache for her. The lip synching is too obvious because of how machine-pressed her voice is on recordings, so to justify that, you'd better be putting on one HELL of a dance show. But she doesn't, which I suspect is because she has a hard time learning new choreography as quickly as she used to; ergo, a lot of the moves are stilted and awkward, with little to no connective tissue. I've heard her Vegas show is really fun and great, and I bet that's because she's really eased into it and knows it cold -- and also because in that kind of venue, you can get away with a multitude more sins. It IS Sin City, after all.

## Britney Spears

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597571480.jpg)

I mean, at one point, she literally just walked off and then came back on while shrugging on this matching hoodie. It was so WEIRD. She seemed nervous -- you can see the wheels turning, and she makes very little effort even to move her lips at times. They also seem to have chosen this uncatchy song specifically so that some dude could come out and do HIS part live while she just lightly writhed. BRITNEY! Gimme more, girl. I really want to believe you have it in you. But if you don't, that's okay! Stop putting yourself through this.

## Britney

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2016/08/GettyImages-597570958.jpg)

I mean. This guy should be on his knees grabbing YOUR crotch. ... Wait, that came out wrong. But you smell what I'm cooking. YOU are the star. But they made you look like his backup candy.

[Fugs and Fabs: The VMAs TelecastSadly, our photo subscription didn't have the pictures of Beyonce's performance, although that's probably best watched in action, anyway. Still, we get the rest of her outfits, plus Rihanna, plus metallic-canary madness that was Britney Spears. \[Photos: Getty\]![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2016/08/gettyimages-597576634.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-and-fabs-the-vmas-telecast-08-2016/)