VIDEO: What Britney Spears' performance at the VMA's was supposed to look like

Perez Hilton shows us a video that allegedly demonstrates how Britney Spears' performance was supposed to look like at the MTV VMA's in Las Vegas this year.

MTV VMAs = YAWN

Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards were like the shows from previous years...lackluster.

I remember as a teen being very excited about the VMAs. Even recording performances to watch back later.  I was even still into the show up until the 2000s. 

And before you say Mike you are too old and don't get the new bands of today.  That's not entirely true, there are still plenty of good bands coming out that I like, MTV just didn't focus on them for this show.  Plus, back in the day, the show actually had established artists from a variety of musical genres play.  Not anymore.

In fact the entire spectacle is gone.  I guess the best performance this year was Pink's choreographed back lot performance complete with fake Molotov cocktails and other explosions.   I can't believe I just said this. Well it was certainly better than Miley Cyrus' paid ad for Rock Band 2 that was built into the middle of the show.

MTV has lost its way. Lately I've been going to Houston area high schools to talk with students about my work's high school sports initiative. I always ask the students if anyone watches MTV.  The answer is mostly no.  The new MTV is YouTube apparently (no surprise).

Russel Bland Brand was not the worst host but he seemed to bomb at points.

I missed Britney Spears' open video.  Didn't sound like I missed much.  In fact, I think the whole reason to have the awards this year was to relaunch Britney's career. That's it.  The media has done enough to ruin her, now it is time to relaunch her career. The media loves a good Greek tragedy, but they also like the phoenix story too. Plus MTV needs her again in top form for ratings.  They had to lead the charge to get her back to full pop star status.

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I think Kanye West and MTV were both in on his interruption of Taylor Swift's award acceptance speech. It just makes sense to me. Look at the amount of publicity both Kanye and MTV are getting today. In the entertainment world any publicity is good publicity. Then he gets another round of news with an apology.

UPDATE
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- I couldn't believe how sloppy the TV production of the awards was.
- Russell Brand proved to be a terrible host again.
- The Jackson tribute was too long and only really paid off when Janet showed up.
- I was surprised MTV asked Joe Perry to play guitar with Katie Perry. In the old days, the show reached out to big time artists. I remember as a kid being bored because I thought some of the acts were for old people. Kids today don't have to worry about this anymore. This is actually a bad thing.
- The big build up of Jay Z arriving in a caravan of cars was pre-taped. How do I know? It was after 11pm Central and a clock on the street behind the cars said 10pm. That was Eastern time so if it was 11pm in Houston, it should have been 12am in New York.

Here is the ratings info for the Video Music Awards MTV sent out today:

The 2009 Video Music Awards was watched by over 26.9 million viewers on MTV, MTV2 and VH1 on Sunday night. This is up +17% from the 23 million who tuned in to MTV/MTV2 last year.
-- Airing on MTV, MTV2 and VH1, the 2009 VMAs averaged over 11 million total viewers. This is up +21% from MTV and MTV2's coverage in 2008 (9.1 million) and the largest VMA audience since 2002.
-- On MTV, The 2009 VMAs averaged just under 9 million total viewers, the largest audience since the 2004 awards. Up +6% year to year (8.97 million vs. 8.43 million).
-- On MTV2, The 2009 VMAs averaged 749,000 total viewers, up +11% year to year (749,000 vs. 674,000).
-- Among P12-34, The 2009 VMAs on MTV, MTV2 and VH1 averaged 7.2 million P12-34 viewers. This is up +16% from MTV and MTV2's coverage in 2008 (7.2 million vs. 6.2 million).
-- On MTV, The 2009 VMAs delivered a 7.5 P12-34 coverage rating, its strongest rating since the 2005 VMAs.
-- The 2009 VMAs is the #1 show on cable this year among P12-34.
-- On VH1, The 2009 VMAs averaged 1.3 million total viewers, improving its time period by +21%. Among P12-34, VH1 averaged a 1.03 rating, up 8% in its time period.

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MTV VMA = BORING

Poor MTV has lost its way. I remember when I was growing up, the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA for short) were a big deal.

In fact I eagerly awaited that one Thursday night a year when some good bands would perform, Madonna would do something vulgar and there would be some zany happenings like Howard Stern appearing in buttless pants as Fart Man (So I didn't have a life, what were you doing back then?).

No more.

Now it's the same old same old. Nothing inventive or interesting. Face it, when the Associated Press is dissing you - there's a problem:

Despite Shakira's ever-gyrating hips, Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" and the obscured image of a naked midget, Thursday night's MTV Video Music Awards had about as much spontaneity as an episode of "Cribs."

"You didn't bring the thunder. You didn't bring anything," host Jack Black, looking at himself in his dressing room mirror, said during one skit, unintentionally summing up the evening.

Jack Black usually gets annoying after a while. We learned he can't carry a show when he hosted Saturday Night Live last December. I think the coolest thing that night was the Lazy Sunday short and Black wasn't in it.

I realize I'm not in the target demo but it sounds like the target has lost interest too. They're too busy on MySpace I guess (when it works).

Just get Paris Hilton on stage doing this and I'm sure there will be some talk. Don't worry, it's not actually as shocking as it first appears.

Do you have any better ideas?

UPDATE
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