Everything being relative, the 2021 MTV VMAs represented a big rebound from the all-time low point of last year’s show, which ended up being pre-recorded without an audience due to pandemic c…
represented a big rebound from the all-time low point of last year’s show, which ended up being pre-recorded without an audience due to pandemic conditions, yet which had everyone involved weirdly trying to pretend that the show was going out live, complete with canned laughter and applause.
The 2021 VMAs could have used a few more nods toward the grave crises in the world that are making its target demo so anxious about their future. Yet it was hard to deny that the show was sometimes at its best when it was at its silliest — and wish for even more of that old-school MTV humor, too. For better or worse, there was no attempt at scripted comedy, so any laughs came in the acceptance speeches.
Some of the performing choices were more curious, or more obvious. Bieber — who’s to be commended, as previously mentioned, for at least mentioning COVID — did his entire opening performance withholding his face from the cameras by wearing an overbearing hoodie. Later, for his acceptance speech, he put on a formal brown jacket over the hoodie, but did pull back his head covering enough just long enough to assure us it was really him.
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