I was stumped by two things on Sunday:
-The lack of a proper tribute to MJ
-The self promotion in Janet's opening performance
Viewers were teased into believing that Janet's 8 minute opening would be a tribute toward her brother. That 8 minutes consisted of Janet promoting Janet.
MJ broke the AMA record for awards yet he was never singled out with any sort of medley or acknowledgent.
I'm still shaking my head over this. The Grammy's are aired earlier in the year so it will be interesting to see in January or February 2010 how they treat MJ and his memory.
I was never under the impression that Janet was going to do a tribute to her brother-she came out with her 33 number one hits album this same week so I figured she was doing a melody of her own hits. I thought she did great but I was really stumped as to why in the world she did not accpet his awards, instead of Jermaine,who has been the talk this week for his own thank you speech for nothingness. There also was no mention of a tribute in the previews for the show,so I did not expect one...what was interesting though,to me anyway,was there was a "presence" of MJ in everything. Microphones had glitter,every performer had glitter and it was just this surreal under the radar ode in some way...I dunno.