Welcome to the Resistance, MTV: The 2019 VMAs get woke, celebrate diversity, blast Trump
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Aug 27, 2019
3 minutes
MTV made an inordinately big deal that this year's Video Music Awards went down in New Jersey.
Broadcast live Monday night from Newark's Prudential Center, as opposed to its usual home in New York or Los Angeles, the annual show included a painfully awkward bit built around three former cast members of "The Sopranos." It had the Jonas Brothers dressed up like Bruce Springsteen for a remote performance at the Boss' old clubhouse, the Stone Pony.
This thing even closed with an ungainly (if exuberant) Garden State
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