Gadget Trish

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Blast from the Past: Gadget Trish shares her thoughts the BET awards featuring Chris Brown for the Michael Jackson Tribute.

I go hard for Chris Brown. Check out my post from the BET award when he did a tribute to Michael Jackson.

When I did something wrong my mother would punish me, and I personally found it very effective. At times I disappointed her, but at the end of the day she would forgive me and a valuable lesson was learned. I see the Media playing the role of my mother, but unlike her, they just wouldn’t forgive Chris Brown. His fans formed support groups like “Team Breezy” a group of fans that would reach out to fellow fans to call radio stations to play his music, and write to networks requesting for Chris Brown to perform at various venues. Blogs, youTube Channels, and multi-social sites were expressing how they wanted to give Chris Brown a second chance to redeem himself. It seemed like the efforts were going in vain, and then B.E.T finally allowed him to perform for the Michael Jackson tribute that we all were waiting for. I tell you know lie when I say that I was screaming like a little girl, “Chris, Chris.” Not to knock any of the previous people that did tributes for Michael in the pass year, with the exception of Janet Jackson on the MTV awards last September and Beyonce singing “I Can’t Help It” at one of her concerts, I really didn’t feel like anyone has stepped to the plate to live up to the “Jackson” standards. Both Michael and Chris fans knew the only one that had the essence of Mr. Jackson was Chris Brown PERIOD!

The opening of the performance had Chris Brown with the signature “The Way You Make Me Feel” outfit with the corresponding song. It was followed with my personal favorite MJ song, “Remember The Time” with dancing steps from the music video with the Breezy touch. One of my favorite parts was this neon light segment to Smooth Criminal, followed by Michael’s iconic “Billie Jean” with the signature outfit. As I’m seeing Chris Brown perform this, I knew something was wrong because I’ve seen him do this before and you can tell he was nervous or something. The screen starts to display social issues and you hear the melody of “Man in the Mirror.” Chris barely gets a word out and his voice is deep like Johnny Gill. The next thing you know, he is crying like he lost his best friend. His emotions overtake him, and you get this sense of an artist honored to perform for his lifetime idol, infused with the actions of everything that led him from being ban in the first place. It was one for the history books for sure. His emotions caused me to cry and I found myself rewinding the DVR in disbelief that this just happened on live TV. You felt his remorse, you felt the lyrics, and feel Michael all in this one moment. At the very end of the show, Chris Brown was given a BET award from the fans, and appears very humble. He informed us that he wouldn’t let us down, and appeared sincere. I personally for one believes he deserve another opportunity to get his career in order.

I could talk about Chris Brown for a lifetime, but I just wanted to briefly talk about the overall B.E.T. award show. In terms of production value, it was very professional. It looked like people rehearsed and took pride into what was being asked of them. However, the artist overall didn’t have enough “Wow” factor for me. My favorite performances that deserve honorable mentions were Piddy and Dirty Money, Monica, and Kanye West. I was really feeling Janae Monae, and Patti Labelle for the Prince tribute. My only awkward moment was seeing Prince wearing a shirt with his image on it, can we say “Vain.” I enjoy Queen Latifah’s as the host, and I appreciate Nicki Minaj indirectly addressing Lil Kim by saying that woman should keep things positive

“I think it’s so important right now for positive energy among women because I’m doing this, I’m fighting for women. This is not for me; this is for all of us. So thank you to all the female rappers that paved the way for me.”

Overall the B.E.T. award was well produced, but with the acceptation of the artist mentioned, there was nothing that inspired me. One a personal note, “Chris as a fan, I got your back and everyone deserves a second chance.”