Turning Japanese: MTV video music awards Japan 2009

Green Day pretend to urinate on the red carpet, Beastie Boys play for only three seconds, and Usher and Ne-Yo get the biggest cheer. And those were the high points of the evening ...Let's face it, people who are fans of MTV probably don't like music all that much. More preoccupied with OTT-sponsorship deals, vacuous celebrity feedback-loops and Westwood overhauling your car, MTV's focus on music has gone quietly AWOL. But as Japanese mainstream pop appears to be one big commercial farce anyway, ...

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