VMA is more like T&A. Random thoughts.

The other day I was watching a concert.  I'm really not sure who the act was, but it was a group of rocking, soulful 20 something men dressed in jeans and tanktops, screaming into mics and thrashing poor instruments until it looked like either their fingers or frets were going to explode.  Hordes of screaming girls populated the audience, scantily clad in the outdoor arena in what looked like summer time.  I know. My attention to specific details is amazing.

This imagery started me thinking about the music industry in general. How is it that men can be un-bathed, wearing disgusting undershirts with ratty, pulled off the floor jeans and ladies have to dress like hookers?  I can barely walk on stage to sing a 3.5 minute song in regular heels.  I can only imagine 3 inches.  Actually...I wore huge heels once while at Shadowbox. I fell over on the way off stage and almost took everyone out, dominoes style.  It was uncomfortable and unnecessary. Though my legs looked fabulous, I almost died trying to get down a set of stairs in the shoes, and for what? So I could look like an orange Muppet turbo hooker with pink hair for a live version of Roam by the B52's.

As a side note-how come Justin Timberlake can barely sing half of his songs cause he's doing choreography at the VMA's but have a lady try to pull that off (Beyonce at the Super Bowl) and she's lambasted while he is glorified?  Can we all just admit that his falsetto sounded like he was a normal range singer who got kicked in the balls?  BUT GOOD ON HIM AND SASHA FIERCE FOR SINGING LIVE WHILE DANCING LIKE IDIOTS.

I watched the Miley Cyrus thing. Unfortunately.  And it's not just an issue of overly-sexualizing herself in an attempt to get as far from her squeaky clean teenage image.  It was almost like watching a completely crazy person lose her mind in front of an audience of millions. The tongue sticking out.  The weird ass behavior. The twerking. Robin Thicke and his team were also to blame for this. But there would be no need to see this shit if it wasn't for the glaring discrepancies in how we treat male and female musicians in this society.

I want Beyonce to come out on stage ONE TIME and be able to wear a shitty looking shirt with comfortable looking jeans. I want to focus on the person and the voice. I love artists like Sara Bareilles who allow themselves to just be. SB is all eyeballs and hair.  And I love that!  I love that.  As a performer, I get it. I get that you put on a persona and that's who people expect.  But I can also say that some of my favorite performances have been when I'm in boots and a cute dress, being me and not some Barbie/Vampy/Trampy version of myself.  And maybe if we move towards that aesthetic, then crap like dancing teddy bears and strippers won't assault our eyeballs and the eyeballs of the thousands of teens who are being brainwashed by this garbage.

That's a Coldshot, baby!