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MARIAH CELEBRATES AMAS WITH EXCUSES
Last night was the glittery American Music Awards (slogan: less impressive than a Grammy, less cool than an MTV Moonman) and almost as soon as it started, Mariah Carey was handing out excuses: apparently her poor singing in a rubbish dress for the opening number was down to a mixture of technical difficulties and dress difficulties, neither of which, you know, she could take responsibility for.
She had been expecting to take home so many awards she'd have had to hire a small lorry, but in the end she only got one - Best soul or R&B artist.
Glitterati liveblogged the whole affair - from Missy Elliot turning up with her foot in a cast (aping Kelly Osbourne's look at last week's children in need, of course) to Coldplay winning something but only getting a tiny smidgen of screen time.
The winners in full:
POP / ROCK
Favorite Male Artist:
Will Smith
Has Will Smith had an especially strong year without us noticing?
Favorite Female Artist:
Gwen Stefani
Favorite Band, Duo or Group:
The Black Eyed Peas
Favorite Album:
American Idiot (Green Day)
SOUL / RHYTHM & BLUES
Favorite Male Artist:
R. Kelly
Gary Glitter must be pondering how it is that some people can be accused of shagging kids and win awards, while others get threatened with the firing squad.
Favorite Female Artist:
Mariah Carey
She'd turned up and sung, they had to give her something
Favorite Band, Duo or Group:
Destiny's Child
Favorite Album:
Destiny Fulfilled (Destiny's Child)
COUNTRY
Favorite Male Artist:
Tim McGraw
Even marrying - however fraudulently - Renee Zellwegger couldn't swing this for Kenny Chesney
Favorite Female Artist:
Gretchen Wilson
Favorite Band, Duo or Group:
Brooks & Dunn
Favorite Album:
Live Like You Were Dying (Tim McGraw)
RAP/HIP-HOP
Favorite Male Artist:
Eminem
Favorite Female Artist:
Missy Elliot
Lil'Kim was nominated here, which held out the possibility of a great "I'm sorry I can't be with you, but I'm a criminal" acceptance video
Favorite Band, Duo or Group:
The Black Eyed Peas
Favorite Album:
The Massacre (50 Cent)
ADULT CONTEMPORARY
Favorite Artist:
Kelly Clarkson
LATIN MUSIC
Favorite Artist:
Shakira
They must love that there's a latin artist that everyone's heard of now...
ALTERNATIVE MUSIC
Favorite Artist
Coldplay
If Coldplay are the alternative, you shudder to think what they're an alternative to, don't you...
CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL
Favorite Artist:
Mary Mary
The "Jesus is my pal" one, not the lead singer with Gaye Bykers on Acid, sadly.
BREAKTHROUGH
Favorite New Artist (All Genres):
Sugarland
Nope, us, neither.
Early press reports carrying an Associated Press byline suggest Green Day won two awards, but they seem to have missed that Coldplay beat them in the Alternative category. Still, being voted Best Pop Album by the AMAs probably shows more conclusively than most of the evdience that Green Day's attempts to reposition themselves as sardonic outsiders chronicling the decline of American political and social life has been beaten by everyone else's view of them as being cute little pretty boys singing funny songs.
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