Including this flawless creature named RIhanna. She looks like a futuristic American Girl doll, doesn't she? She should come equipped with a jet pack, and her own tesseract device. The American Music Awards were held at the Shrine Auditorium in LA, last night and were packed to the rafter with winners from "American Idol". Chris Daughtry's Nickelback-lite (which is probably worse than actual Nickelback) band Daughtry and truck-destroying vandal Carrie Underwood picked up awards. Chris Daughtry's hellish band won for Favorire Breakthrough Artist and Favorie Adult Contemporary Artist. Underwood won for Favorite Female Country Artist. Someone please stop "American Idol" before it directs everything cultural in our lives. Justin Timberlake took the Favorite Male Artist prize. He sent in a taped acceptance speech from Australia, where he's been attacked by magpies.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the fourth year (poor bastard) and dispensed with a monologue, blaming the Writer's Guild of America strike. The awards' voting system was altered this year. Instead of a poll of 20,000 music writers as in previous years, fans could vote in an online poll on ABC's website. Ratings for the show have been down in recent years, and several artists couldn't be bothered to show up to collect their awards last year. Dude, it's the American Music Awards and I just got some really good coke. Do the math. I think there was a tribute to Pat Benatar last year functioning as the highlight of that mess. At least I taped an acceptance speech and said I was in Australia.
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49 more photos (featuring Beyonce, Jordin Sparks, Kellie Pickler, Fergie, Chris Brown, Adam Levine, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Matt Dallas, Akon, James Blunt, Vanessa Hudgens, Phoebe Price, Nick Rhodes, Avril Lavigne, Christina Applegate, Kid Rock, Miley Cyrus, Ashanti, Queen Latifah, Ashley Tinsdale, Sean Kingston, Omarosa, Nicole Scherzinger, Ryan Seacrest, Josh Grobin, Ne-Yo, Mary J. Blige, Natasha Bedingfield, Lil' Mama, Justin Chambers, Natasha Bedingfield, Simon Le Bon, Lenny Kravitz, Amanda Bynes) from the American Music Awards red carpet are after the jump.
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Paige says:
That is the roughest picture I've ever seen of fergie.
We Are Not Amused says:
Was I the only one who turned this mess off as soon as Kimmel tried to pull Idol losers from the audience to do the Soulja Boy dance instead of a monologue? Ugh, that fad is now officially dead. Next thing you know, there'll be grandmothers doing it on You Tube thinking it's cute.
Karen says:
I sound like a broken record but the worst photo (in my humble opinion) is the one of Jordin Sparks blowing a kiss to the camera. For the love of humanity, that pose should be banned forever! It doesn't make anyone look good...gawd!
Ruiz Wrote says:
Okay I just gotta ask........was anyone else suprisingly dissapointed with Fergie's opening act? She sounded like she was nervous and outta breath and couldn't hold her notes that long. Plus her voice sounded too deep, it just didn't sound like the orig song. Even though the guy from Grey's wasn't dissapointed, I was. What happened Fergie?
Interloper says:
Avril Lavigne looks like Demented Gnome Barbie in these pictures. What am I saying? Like she ever looks like anything else.
Miss Kitty says:
I still want Nick Rhodes to spank me.