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The Best And Worst Of The 2009 BET Awards
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We explore the highs and the (very) lows of BET's awards show.
by Johnny Firecloud
Jun 30, 2009

This year's BET Awards ceremony was reformatted at almost literally the last minute, when planners decided to turn the event into a nearly four-hour Michael Jackson tribute. 

The award presentations themselves were only footnotes on a night that was entirely consumed with honoring Michael, and rightfully so - nobody's going to remember who won a BET award 20 years from now, but our grandchildren will know Michael Jackson's music. They'll dance and hit high falsettos just like we try to do to this day. Just this morning I saw two kids trying to moonwalk at Starbucks. So what if they hit the display rack and dozens of shitty CDs scattered across the floor? They were honoring the man.

Here's our collection of the best - and worst - moments from this year's BET Awards. 

Good: Jamie Foxx hosted the ceremony this year, but he was also a nominee and a performer - his jokes were reserved but funny ("I loved the old nose and the new nose"), and his live performance of the hit “Blame It On the Alcohol” was a well-placed moment of levity in the night. Jamie's moonwalk attempt wasn't half bad, despite tripping over himself at one point. Disagree? I'd like to see you do better.

 

The group insisted they be shot from at least 30 feet away.

 

Good: New Edition took things back to the ‘70s, which Jackson thrived in with his brothers as a child star. Rather than a medley of all Jackson's career hits, the closest we came were Jackson 5 hits such as this. Bobby Brown was looking a bit on the chunkalicious side, but it was good to see him hitting his cues and not cracking out on Whitney. 

 

Bad: The same can't be said for Jay-Z's "surprise" performance his new single “D.O.A.,” presumably off his upcoming Blueprint 3 album, due out later this year. The performance was said to have been a replacement for a possible planned Chris Brown-led tribute to the fallen icon. BET execs reportedly felt that Brown's presence would be a distraction, so they replaced him with Hova, who did a fine job with a mediocre song (let's face it) but a self-promoting song about murdering anything seemed largely out of place in a night devoted to honoring a deceased legend.

 

 

Good & Bad: Beyonce's presentation and performance was as overblown and lavish as the hype surrounding her (you've heard the "successor to the throne" talk, haven't you?), with a tiara and a wedding dress supplemented by a wind machine. Fortunately, her medley of Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" and the classic "Ave Maria" were tear-jerkingly beautiful renditions.

 

Bad: The Young Money performance was, to put it mildly, a bloody disaster. Lil Wayne and newcomer/ apparent golden child Drake took the stage for the song "Every Girl," a track that essentially documents Lil Wayne's sexual escapades with girls around the world. They ended the performance with a gathering of dancers that looked to have a combined age of 19 - including Weezy's pre-teen daughter.

 

 

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