{"id":15969,"date":"2021-09-17T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=15969"},"modified":"2021-09-17T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:13:17","slug":"the-best-of-the-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2021\/09\/the-best-of-the-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Of The VMA&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you watch the MTV Video Music Awards last weekend?<\/p>\n<p>I admit I didn&#8217;t watch it live, but my daughter started playing some of the YouTube video recaps and I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>When I was younger, I loved music award shows.\u00a0 I loved sitting on the edge of my seat, waiting to see my favourite bands either perform or hand out awards or maybe even win a few.<\/p>\n<p>Back then we didn&#8217;t have YouTube.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t have the internet.\u00a0 If you missed the show, you missed it all.\u00a0 It was gone forever.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I miss those days.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how old I get, I still hang onto that excitement from younger days, when I was excited about my favourite band.\u00a0 Duran Duran has a new album out next month, and trust me when I say, my teenage self is still alive and well and giddy over the upcoming release.<\/p>\n<p>There was so really good performances on Sunday as the awards helped to celebrate 40 years.\u00a0 Artists who started MTV were on hand &#8211; Madonna kicked off the show.\u00a0 Cyndi Lauper was there looking incredible with purple hair.\u00a0 Does she ever age?\u00a0 She is by far one of my favourites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLpu4b32yvA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQOAsuw_F6Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2SpP0u8qA4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kkTraI380Qs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/203lDZX6GgM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmoiFfR0Ag4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you watch the MTV Video Music Awards last weekend? 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