{"id":2977,"date":"2004-11-15T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T19:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/amas\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T23:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T06:07:40","slug":"amas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/amas\/","title":{"rendered":"ama&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Music Awards were actually watchable this year. It had its moments of eyroll-inducing banter, of course. But I guess that&#8217;s nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>I liked all the performances for the most part &#8212; I especially enjoyed Kanye West (BWAH! <i>Workout Plan<\/i> is the funniest song), John Mayer (his set looked really cool in black and white), Maroon 5 (I think I have a crush on the drummer &#8212; what&#8217;s his name?!), Alicia Keys (she looked gorgeous with her hair up), and Snoop Doog and Pharrell (<i>Drop It Like It&#8217;s Hot<\/i> is my current song of the moment &#8212; loved seeing Pharrell dance, hee!).<\/p>\n<p>I was really looking forward to Usher and Alicia Keys singing <i>My Boo<\/i>&#8230; but there was something *off* about their performance. During part of it, Alicia Keys wasn&#8217;t even singing. ?? It was weird.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe Lenny Kravitz sang that <i>Lady<\/i> song again. Every time I go into the <a href=\"http:\/\/gap.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GAP<\/a>, that song is playing. I half expected Sarah Jessica Parker to come out and dance with him.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT was UP with Anna Nicole Smith?<\/p>\n<p>Still don&#8217;t like Fantasia. Or her new song.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of American Idols, it was good to see Kelly Clarkson again. Squee! Her dress was preeettyy. I can&#8217;t wait for her new album.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else was pretty forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, hope everyone has a good week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Music Awards were actually watchable this year. It had its moments of eyroll-inducing banter, of course. But I guess that&#8217;s nothing new. I liked all the performances for the most part &#8212; I especially enjoyed Kanye West (BWAH! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/amas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}