what i think about the grammy awards' red carpet, and rick ross' v-neck

Because I tweeted damn near 50 times last night during the Grammy's [or so it seems], I'm not going to tell you everything I thought. You can go look if you'd like.

BUT... I didn't get to talk about the red carpet, and we obviously need to.

Here's what I loved, hands down:

She can do NO wrong, and she's channeling her inner Faith Hill, which is a pretty great decision.

Another reason Kelly Rowland deserves more credit in the music industry. Beautiful.

NEVER thought I'd put Paris in a category of looking good at the Grammy's, but homegirl did it right. I hope that doesn't mean her album will be good. I don't think I could support that.

Nothing bad to say about this lady... even when there's snot coming out of her nose.

Hate the hair, but look at that body! Damn gurl.

These actually leave me a little undecided on my feelings:

I kinda wanna put this in the "good" pile, but I won't. A lot of people HATED her for wearing bebe on the red carpet, but like she said- it's her. Plus, I thought she looked rather pretty.

Sure, it's an ugly outfit, but she's not dressing like a man, and if you take off that netting, her face is actually pretty. I commend her for not being an attention whore.

T-Swift and Gaga in this category! Can you believe it?! I think this dress had potential. It's pretty, and I do enjoy the heart at the chest. I think she had great hair for it, too... but where the f are her boobs?! Plus, it's Taylor.

Alicia Keys rarely looks bad, but I'm hating this hair on her. Swizz Beats and that purple velour jacket- I'm kinda in love with it. Not everyone can pull that off.

And these are just stupid decisions:

Miss Linda Ramone. She's like part Ashley Olsen, part Reba, part Zenon, part saggier boobs than Betty White.

As I said last night, it's like her main focus is outdoing Lady Gaga these days. She had to make some weird red carpet entrance that tied into her performance just like the egg, but no one liked it. It was stupid and rather pointless. Leave the pope outta this.

I'm sorry... is that a doily, Fergie? Did you get this as a DIY idea on Pinterest?

I coulda let the dress slide, Robyn... then you had to wear the platform Tim's.

I've been saying that Katy is so pretty she can pull off the blue hair, but not this time. The roots showing is tacky. The blue on blue is not a good look.. and the style of her dress makes her look a bit larger, am I right?

But THIS.... is the best outfit I saw all night.

RICK ROSS. IN A V-NECK. And that pose! Stop it and get out of town. I haven't giggled so hard at an outfit in a long time.

Overall, it was a decent show. I'm not mad about Adele winning so much, especially after she thanked radio. Not many pop stars will do that. The only thing I ask for next year: A little less "reminiscing" on the music from 40 years ago. Bring back the 90s music for reminiscing purposes, kthanks.

love,
elizabethany

PS: Pictures found on Buzzfeed, in case you wanna see more.

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what i think about the grammys/red carpet, because you care

Tweet The 53rd Annual Grammys were last night, and if you follow me on Twitter, you know exactly how I felt about the show... But it's time for me to express myself one final time and pick some best and worst dressed!

Best Dressed on the red carpet:

I think Selena Gomez takes the cake for me, but I really did love Julianne Hough and Keri Hilson a lot.
Selena's gold dress and hair was so simple, but sparkly and perfect for her body and just beautiful.
I love the pattern on Julianne Hough's dress and her face/hair always look perfect.
The asymmetrical mini on Keri is fun, a bright color, and enough to be different while still being gorgeous.
I love the silver and long sleeves/mini dress combo on J. Lo, especially with her awesome legs,
and Justin Bieber can pull off a while and off-white suit at the age of 17. Swagger.

Some honorable mentions:

I can admit it when it's true: Kim Kardashian looked good! LOVED the gold dress with her hair! It may have been showing off a bit too much, but I her makeup wasn't too crazy and I couldn't help but love it.
Jennifer Hudson looks AMAZING! I don't love the open front on her dress or the plain hair too much, but the top of the dress is beautiful and her body is SMOKIN'! I liked someone's tweet: "When did J-Hud become better looking than Xtina?"
As for B.o.B.- I think a lot of guys really stepped up their game this year away from the usual jeans/suit jackets and plain suits, and I love the red and just his overall attitude when pulling this outfit off. Who says only hipsters wear scarves?!


Worst dressed:

Everyone's talking about Rihanna and I can't figure out if they agree with me or not, but she's a cross between Strawberry Shortcake, and a naked Christmas tree with the white garland being wrapped around. Sorry, but this is just bad and awkward.
Nicki Minaj is really growing on me, and part of me thinks this outfit is hilarious, but seriously- way too much. Leopard print mixed with bride of Frankenstein is just not a look for someone who may wanna be taken seriously in my book.
Miley also looks really pretty awful. She clearly gained a freshman 15 in her last movie, and the side-boob needs to go. We saw it in Marie Claire, we get it. You have boobs. Keep it classy, please. You're better than this, Miley. I love the dress, but the overall look: no.

As for the show:

• Christina fell and didn't really redeem herself from the Super Bowl, in my book. She looks and sounds awful, and it's really a shame.
  
• As for Lady Gaga, I can't decide if I'm really annoyed by everything, or if I think the egg was cool. It was pointless, if you ask me. They made this huge deal about it on the red carpet, but when it came to the performance, it opened up and that was that. LAME. Plus- her shoulders and face were freakin' creepy. Her abs were AWESOME, but I couldn't look because of all the other body mutations.
• Justin Bieber/Usher/Jaden's performance was AWESOME. Biebs is going through puberty, but as far as I can tell- he's proving it won't be a factor.
  
• Cee-Lo Green wins best outfit of the night, obviously. I couldn't stop laughing throughout the whole performance, yet it was musically good too. Still iffy about Gwyneth Paltrow as a singer, but I'll take it for last night's purposes.
• Dr Dre's appearance that everyone's been hyping up was underwhelming. Yes, it's cool to see him back with Eminem. Yes, the performance as a whole was great, but he just stood there and rapped in a not-so-talented way.
• Rihanna's dress during "Love the Way You Lie" was AWESOME. I LOVED it! Liked the whole performance, to be honest.
• Rihanna's performance with Drake- Also underwhelming talent-wise. Overwhelming gyrating-hips-and-nice-ass wise.
  
• If you really wanna know everything I think, just check Twitter. Kthanks.

I think the show was pretty good as a whole. I wasn't disappointed! Ending: Awkward. Biebs not winning Best New Artist- Weird. Lady A taking home a ton of awards for a song they put out YEARS ago: Unfair. Still, I was entertained throughout... Minus the whole Barbara Streisand thing.

What'd you think? Let me know! I like to read your opinions too!

love,
elizabethany

PS: Finding videos that are guaranteed to stay up for more than a couple hours is going to be impossible, but to check out what we could find, and more pictures of everyone, click here!

the smith family is way cool

The entire Smith family walked the red carpet together for the premiere of "The Karate Kid" which stars little Jaden.

He's been one of my favorite child stars since I found out about him being in this movie, obviously Will Smith is a favorite for anyone, and I've always loved him and Jada together.

What I didn't know is that the entire family is hella cool! Check 'em out!

What!!! I don't even know where to begin!!

Will is probably the coolest dad EVER. Trey looks like he's going to be some music star of some sort. Jaden is SUPER FLY!!!! Jada has her own style of hott. Willow looks like a little Rihanna!

No, really.. check her out closer:


She should probably star in one of Rihanna's upcoming videos as her mini-me. DANG girl! You're only 9!!!

All I'm sayin is- I wanna be a part of this family. They're a very close second in coolest-families-ever to Rev Run's fam. I wonder how I could make this happen.....

love,
elizabethany

carrie underwood looks not-so-hott!

I thought I'd never see the day that I'd say this, but in a recent red carpet walk, Carrie Underwood did not look good!

Okay, okay.... I guess technically she still looked decent, but definitely not up to her perfect par!

It was her first public outing with new hubby-to-be Mike Fisher at the Bell Sens Soiree Carnaval Mystique fundraiser for the Sens Foundation, and her make-up, hair, gothic outfit, everything was looking rough.

Maybe this was just a night of not being photogenic, maybe she had a little too much makeup, or maybe I don't like her hairdo, but I'm disappointed in her uber pale, Amish funeral look she's got goin' on.

It's okay, though... You can forgive someone for not looking perfect once. Just don't do it again cuz then it's shame on me.

love,
elizabethany

PS: In other couples looking rough on the red carpet news, what the H is Amber Rose wearing?! Sure, her ass looks great... But this is not a cute dress. Kanye's look isn't so hott either.

because you want to know: the AMA's

It's been a while since I've done a full-out post on an award show or anything of the sort, but it's time to talk about last night's American Music Awards!

First up: Let's visit the Red Carpet and see how everyone was lookin'.

My faves:

Making me cringe:




The rest:

And now... For the performances..

There were three former Idols to perform... And people say the song produces no one?

Kelly Clarkson, looking bigger than her best, but sounding just as amazing as she did in her American Idol days.




Adam Lambert, who everyone is FREAKING OUT about for this performance. [I guess that's why they picked him over Kris... He'll make people talk.] He's still a little too showy to me, but it's probably time I admit that's what everyone likes- Someone who will entertain in any and every way. And don't tell anyone, but his song is totally growing on me.

As for the raunchiness of this performance- I say work it if you can! Work the system, that is. They don't always let things happen like this, he's an adult, he's putting on a show! [Did I just say something nice about Glambert?! Uh oh.]




Carrie Underwood looked, sounded, everything perfectly... As usual. I noticed her outfit looks a lot like one of my faves from the Project Runway finale... Anyone else catch it?!




Two daring performers stepped out in very odd outfits. Lady Gaga doesn't surprise me any, of course... And I guess Rihanna has been going down the "odd" trail for a little while now, too. Who's was worse/crazier/whatever?

A skeleton is just never really an OK look. Even though they both have the same skeletal idea I feel, Gaga's is obviously too much.

Some people sound way better on the radio, but I appreciate their effort to sing live. [But maybe a little technical help would in fact be better...]

Shakira is hott, but that's about it.



The Black Eyed Peas are just not good live.




There were some performers that maybe you forgot could still make good music, but they're still talented and doin' their thing!

Whitney Houston had an emotional return to the AMA stage, but I think she did great. I'm so happy for her!



J.Lo has definitely been missed [I've missed her, at least]. Minus the absolutely hilarious fall right before her big solo dance, I'd give her an A!




As for other notable performances, I don't really have any complaints minus Eminem obviously being satellited. Everyone did pretty great, and I love that the AMA's have so much music.

Jay Z and Alicia Keys [Please take note of Perez having the time of his life during this song, but not really knowing the words.]




And last but not least, the opening performance of the night was Janet Jackson. She definitely put on quite a show. She looks great, and she sounded great [with the obvious help of pre-recorded music ;)]. I love hearing some of these songs with a new touch on them. One question: Has she gotten more surgery recently?!


As for the winners, I'll just tell you that Taylor Swift won the most awards with 5, and I'm mad about it. I still don't get how she can beat people like Michael Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney.... Yeah, her music is cute... But is nowhere near legendary.

So, because I'm mad, you can read all of the winners for yourself here. Sorry. Kinda.


And that'll do it for my thoughts! I tried to get it all straight to the point for those of you who didn't get to watch last night!

love,
elizabethany

PS: I'm still shocked Kate Hudson's nip didn't slip when she presented the Black Eyed Peas.