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10 Amazing, Shocking Unscripted Moments From ’90s MTV

By Tyler Coates on

Though the channel debuted in the early ’80s, MTV really found its groove in the ’90s when it still balanced music coverage with its burgeoning original reality, comedy, and animated programming. Because we can’t resist looking back fondly on the wild and wacky on-air incidents that shaped our adolescence, here are ten mind-blowing moments from MTV’s second decade that make us pine for those halcyon off-the-wall… Read More

Fashion

The Fug Report: Highs and Lows from the Week in Fashion

By Caroline Stanley on

Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of their favorite looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week, on Go Fug Yourself, we were worked into … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Patti Smith and the Kronos Quartet accepted the 2011 Polar Music Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm yesterday. The annual award — which is Sweden’s highest music honor — was founded by Stig Anderson (aka ABBA’s manager), back in 1989. [via BBC]

2. Hopping on board the ’90s nostalgia bandwagon, ABC is… Read More

Television

No One Is Hosting This Year’s MTV Video Music Awards

By Caroline Stanley on

We have an unhealthy relationship with MTV’s Video Music Awards. While we’re never exactly what you’d call excited to sit down and watch the show each year, thanks to precious pop culture moments — like Michael Jackson smooching Lisa Marie Presley or Britney Spears dancing with a gigantic snake — we feel obligated to tune… Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Listen to a new track called “I Could Be Wrong” featuring Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and Chromeo’s Dave 1. It’s available on the digital version of Chromeo’s new album, Business Casual, which drops today. [via P4K]
2. Here’s a high-quality version of Kanye’s new song “Runaway” — which he debuted… Read More

Design

Deconstructing Lady Gaga’s VMA Ensembles

By Caroline Stanley on

The biggest scandal of last night’s MTV Video Music Awards might have been the Kanye West/Taylor Swift controversy. Madonna’s opening tribute to Michael Jackson, and Janet’s live performance were arguably the most “historic” moments the awards show had to offer. But it was Lady Gaga’s performance and multiple outfit changes — and her Best New Artist acceptance speech, where she dedicated her award to “God and the gays” — that we considered the most entertaining portions of the evening. (Sorry Jay-Z. Showing up in a town car five minutes before you perform and having the cameras follow your slow entrance into Radio City Music Hall can’t match the drama of Gaga covered in faux blood.) After the jump we try to figure out where some of those sartorial statements came… Read More