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"facebook dialogPinterestSinger Kanye West takes the microphone from singer Taylor Swift as she accepts the \"Best Female Video\" award during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP\n\nLast night MTV put on quite a show. At the annual Video Music Awards, hosted again this year by British comedian Russell Brand, there was drama, acrobatics, and more drama -- with a few awards given out in between.\n\nThe night began with a fun and powerful tribute to Michael Jackson. Dancers clad in the King of Pop's signature styles danced to a medley of his hits, capped off by Janet Jackson joining the dancers on stage to perform her half of \"Scream,\" the 1995 duet she sang with Michael. Madonna then came out to deliver a moving personal tribute to Michael.\n\nFollowing Madonna, Russell Brand appeared to officially open the night. His monologue fell a bit flat (a disappointment, as I'm a big fan of his), but he wisely kept it short.\n\nThe moment everyone's talking about came during the first award of the evening. When Taylor Swift won the award for best Female Video for \"You Belong With Me,\" Kanye West commandeered the stage in the midst of her speech. The 19-year-old appeared stunned by the rapper demanding her mic and then loudly blasting MTV for not choosing Beyonc&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA9;'s \"Single Ladies\" as he felt it was \"one of the best videos of all time.\" West was apparently booted from the building immediately after his outburst. (And posted an apology on his website later that night.) As many have already said, I thought his behavior was childish and Taylor--thirteen years Kanye's junior--handled it with grace.\n\nFor her part, Beyonc&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA9; seemed surprised by the whole thing and later in the broadcast, when \"Single Ladies\" won for Video of the Year, she ceded the stage to Taylor so the country singer could give the acceptance speech she hadn't gotten to earlier. It was a classy move by Beyonc&amp;amp;#xC3;&amp;amp;#xA9; and helped end the night on a great note.\n\nIn between the Kanye nonsense? An impressive acrobatic performance of \"Sober\" by Pink, a rocking version of \"Uprising\" by Muse (a band I like but... why were they at the VMA's exactly?), Billie Joe of Green Day crowd surfing on stage, and some extreme outfits from Lady Gaga, who seemed to change into a new uncomfortable-looking ensemble during every commercial break .\n\nDid you see the VMAs? What did you think?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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