So I was at the Social Star Awards
earlier and it was such a mega event,
at the end of the night I felt
overwhelmed and half-deaf (partly due to the acoustics at the MBS
theatre that just wasn't meant for Aerosmith, LMFAO and Psy. )
It was a whambam event of endless
entertainment, that ranged from anything like
Overly Attached Girlfriend's appearance
-
(seriously no one knew her name and it
didn't matter)
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to “Drumming on Fat Guy”
WTF
to IMHO the best act of the night in
terms of craft, hard work and creativity – the Wrecking Crew
and also the surreal magic of Marquese
Scott
and of course the good old music
performances -
old school rock and roll that was
Aerosmith
social media sensation Carly Rae Jepsen
she was skipping around on stage
pretending to be 10 years younger, belting out party tunes everyone
knew
Ceelo Green (his dancers really upped
the ante)
Blush – Asian girl group
(produced by Quincy Jones!!!) whose dress code spelt skank
R&B superstar Eric Benet honestly
felt out of place since R&B is so dead it is almost reviving (I
HOPE!), he didn't even bother to say goodbye or thank you and exited
the stage before his song ended -_-”
and the hair-tingling presence of Psy
(more so because of his massive records on Youtube than anything
else), how he seemed so grounded and humble instead of spewing fluffy
thank yous.
“... great to know that an international show like this is first held in an Asian coutry..!”
definitely drew cheers by inspiring Asian pride in
the house!
Full show here ->
But at the end of the event I just felt
like I was slapped with wave after wave of shallow entertainment that
is so typical of social media.
It was HAHAHA, next.
WOW, next.
WTF was that, next.
A huge mish mash of humour, music, dance, random crap, gimmicks, next next next.
For anything that couldn't sustain our attention for more than 2 minutes, we were a restless crowd.
I'm not discounting anyone's hard work,
showing disdain or pretending to be holier than thou.
Social media has brought all kinds of
talent the attention they deserve, but also so much throwaway entertainment that is devoid of any depth or meaning.
I
honestly feel that the numbers race to social media popularity is
soulless.
I applaud the efforts to organise and celebrate social media popularity at a staged event, but lumping all random acts together in one night is just overkill.
Even the acts that bore talent and creativity seemed like watered down gimmicks. It was just too much noise, no space for my brain to process anything I've just watched.
Time to go back to reading books, articles, food for the soul.
had enough of this fast food media for now.
