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# Should We Discuss the VMAs Broadcast? Why Not!
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/should-we-discuss-the-vmas-broadcast-why-not-09-2021/
- Published: 2021-09-13T19:00:53.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-22T06:08:46.000Z
- Description: Did you watch?
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: fugs, 2021 VMAs, Thom Browne, VMAs, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:18

[View the gallery](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/2021-vmas-the-show-itself/)

Did you watch the show? What did you think? I actually really enjoyed it -- I forgot how many musical performances there are at the VMAs (somehow) -- although this show always feels about 45 minutes too long. My own top level thoughts are:

Young Madonna would have notes on this Current Madonna, and she is kinda bumming me -- an aged Gen X crone whose first album purchase was *Like a Virgin* \-- out. ([Yes, we covered her earlier but I needed to give my two cents](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/i-almost-had-enough-for-a-post-called-diapers-at-the-vmas-09-2021/).) I wish Madonna would look at some older women who are still cool, of which there are *many*, and think about her legacy. I feel like she could have been so revolutionary and punk in her 60s instead of repeating the same old same old for years. Madge, there's still time!

Doja Cat was a VERY cute host and so charming. (I even liked her Pepsi ad and [this is a Coke household](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/your-afternoon-chat-to-what-are-you-perhaps-irrationally-brand-loyal-09-2021/).) She also wore some WILD fun stuff, which is deeply appreciated. You'll see it all in the slideshow.

Jennifer Lopez must have gotten [some great sleep on a private jet between Venice and here](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/what-could-bump-the-vmas-from-our-first-slot-of-the-day-bennifer-in-venice-obviously-09-2021/) and also she looked AMAZING in an outfit which is merely held together by strings.

That Bieber/Kid Laroi collab is VERY good and I thought that was an excellent performance from them.

I'm very happy for the youths that they have this Olivia Rodrigo album to scream-sing along to in their cars when thinking about their break-ups. That's not sarcasm! I really like that album and I would have been LIVING FOR IT through some Dumb Boy Problems of my youth.

As an aforementioned aged Gen X crone, I was pleased that Foo Fighters can still *kill it.* 

I didn't get any shots of Alicia Keys in her fantastic sparkly number doing *Empire State of Mind* against the backdrop of the Twin Towers-in-lights memorial, which is so beautiful every year, but I thought that was lovely.

More thoughts in the slideshow, obviously. How did it grab you?

###### \[Photos: Shutterstock, Getty Images, Kevin Mazur/MTV VMAs 2021/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS\]