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The 2009 American Music Awards show, broadcast live Nov. 22 on ABC TV from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, was a crashing bore and an entire embarrassment to show biz. If this is as good as it gets, then little wonder the music industry is in such financial straits. Watch some video highlights of this, the 37th Annual American Music Awards (left) Scroll down for blow-by-blow critique of the show’s highest and lowest points. List of AMA winners at bottom of this page.

Now, Janet Jackson, we love – but we did not love her performance or her Shrek-esque outfit with the weird saggy baggy crotch. It appears, to Digital Cheeseburger, that she was merely going through the motions, doing what’s expected of her as sister of the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and ambassador / sales rep for the Jackson Family (You’ve gotta help keep us in the limelight and the dollars, Janet!) It seems she’s not loving performing anymore, given her stiff, forced dance moves and obvious dearth of pre-show dietary and exercise regime.

Janet used to have the moves. Janet used to have the body. And, Janet used to captivate her audience spellbound with mesmerizing dance and sheer stage presence. Her former brilliance, sadly is overshadowed by today’s lackluster. Is it apathy, or burnout? We like to think that she is just so very pissed off with personal problems and tragedies, not to mention the state of play in the music business (hear us, Sony?) rather than accept Janet is toast today. We hope she finds her way back, and has just temporarily misplaced herself, because the world of song would be a lesser realm without the Queen of Dance around in her fullest glory.

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The show stealer was incomparable Lady Gaga. Now there’s an artist working hard, putting heart and soul into performance preparation, and loving what she does. With her freak on and bottle-smashing antics – piano ablaze, she delivered the only smoking hot act of the night, literally and figuratively. Only thing is: what was up with her face? Looked like she’d been rolled up hard and put away wet the night before! Buy the new Lady Gaga album The Fame Monster [Deluxe Edition]here!

R&B singer Rihanna looked like she was wearing what her ex-beau Chris Brown ought to have been clad in – a prison-stripes outfit. Only this particular monstrosity of wasted threads appeared more like her granddaddy’s one-piece long johns after somebody had painted a bench with them on it. Hideous props to Rihanna, who really does know much better than this – C’mon girl, peel on the leathers again! Buy Rihanna album Rated Rhere!

Watch the video clip:

Looking every inch and ounce an anemic version of her former powerhouse self, diva Whitney Houston accepted the prestigious International Award of Excellence presented to her by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Previous recipients include Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin, The Bee Gees, Aerosmith, Madonna, and Beyonce.

Adorned in an Ace bandage-like, Grecian-styled white dress, which made her look overly frumpy and heavily pregnant, she warbled a weak rendition of her new single “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength,” which naturally wowed her legions of loyal fans, who can forgive and overlook everything Houston does.

Buy the new Whitney Houston album I Look to Youhere!

Watch video of Whitney Houston sing at the American Music Awards:

Actress and songstress, Jennifer Lopez, done up in boxer gear fell on her derrière while singing “Louboutins.” Being so favorably padded there, she went unhurt, albeit ending up as the butt of everyone’s AMA after-show jokes. Buy Glow by JLo for Womenhere!

Watch video of Lopez’s AMA trip (happens after she climbs on dancers backs)

Then there’s flavor of the moment, sweeper of the boards at the Country Music Awards held earlier this year, teen singer Taylor Swift won five American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year, even beating out the smart money bet of Michael Jackson for pole position! And, truth be told, she owes it all to rapper Kanye West, who invaded her acceptance speech at this year’s Video Music Awards, where she won Best Female Video beating out Beyonce, which enraged West. Sorry Swift fans, she won the sympathy vote and, touche, all the awards going! We think West should get out of rapping and into repping, as his unwanted appearances seem to garner sympathetic success for his “victims.”

And, then there were these….

The lowest points of the show – and that really going something, considering just how many there were – included Jermaine Jackson (above left) wearing his late brother’s iconic glove, while whoring as ever for vicarious attention. Then there was the inane mugging for the camera by attention-addict and peroxided Ducks Ass coiffed celebrity-gossip blogger Perez Hilton (above center). Finally, and we do mean finally – as in, last performance of the night, but moreover bottom of this compost heap of a show – was “American Idol” loser (well, being runner up is not exactly winning, is it?) Adam Lambert (above right) whose shambles of a performance failed miserably in every department. Lambert, appearing like a lost renegade from some massively underfunded regional production of the “Rocky Horror Show,” subjected an unconvinced audience to a homosexually-charged attempt at controversy-for-fame. But, not being an artist of any merit, his desperate attention-seeking silly act caught the eye only of the censors. As for the rest of us, we’ve forgotten already, Lambert, that which we heeded not in the first place.

2009 American Music Awards winners list

Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift

Pop-Rock:

Male artist: Michael Jackson

Female artist: Taylor Swift

Band, duo or group: Black Eyed Peas

Album: Michael Jackson, “Number Ones”

Soul-R&B:

Male artist: Michael Jackson

Female artist: Beyonce

Band, duo or group: Black Eyed Peas

Album: Michael Jackson, “Number Ones”

Rap / Hip-Hop:

Artist: Jay-Z

Album: Jay-Z, “Blueprint 3″

Country:

Male artist: Keith Urban

Female artist: Taylor Swift

Band, duo or group: Rascal Flatts

Album: Taylor Swift, “Fearless”

Adult Contemporary: Taylor Swift

Alternative Rock: Green Day

Latin: Aventura

Contemporary Inspirational: Mary Mary

Soundtrack Album: “Twilight Soundtrack”

T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist Award: Gloriana

International Award of Excellence: Whitney Houston

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RIHANNA TO OPEN UP ON CHRIS BROWN PUMMELING

R&B singer Rihanna is to for the first time since her physical beating at the brutal hands of her then-boyfriend, rapper Chris Brown, talk in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC‘s “Good Morning America” about the incident for which Brown was convicted. The interview will air Thursday morning and be repeated Friday evening on “20/20.”

Her appearance coincides with the debut of her new single, “Russian Roulette,” from her forthcoming album, “Rated R.”

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Convicted girl-beater and rapper, Chris Brown is set to release a new CD “Graffiti” on December 15. First single from it, “I Can Transform Ya,” features rappers Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz.

Brown is currently serving five years probation, six months of community labor, and a year’s domestic violence counseling following his guilty plea to the charge of felony assault against then-girlfriend, R&B singer Rihanna.

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Wearing an orange vest instead of prison blues, convicted woman-beater and R&B singer, Chris Brown wielded yard tools as he cleared overgrown weeds and picked up trash at police horse stables in Richmond, near his home in Montpelier, Virginia. Digital Cheeseburger has the video clip, click below to watch:

Brown, 20, was sentenced in California last month to five years’ probation, six months of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling for February’s vicious attack on his then-girlfriend, R&B artist Rihanna.

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Jermaine Jackson just needs to quit trying to be something he’s unable to be, that is be his brother’s legacy keeper. JJ‘s neither gifted nor sincere enough for that role. His latest venture, the opportunistic and grandiose scheme to hold a Michael Jackson tribute concert in Vienna (as if the King of Pop had any links to Austria!) is fast going south. Real fast! Already Mary J Blige and Chris Brown have declared Huh? Nuh-uh, no way! to Jermaine’s roll call as to those R&B acts headlining the show. Even the Jackson family have displayed displeasure at JJ’s staging the event in the first place, and none of the clan will be attending it.

JJ has a history with MJ as brothers in arms against one another. It all was borne from jealousy – Joe Jackson replaced JJ as lead singer of the Jackson 5 with the more talented MJ. So embittered was JJ that when the Jackson Five signed with Epic Records as The Jacksons, he split from the group and remained with Tamla Motown. The back-story only worsens from here on. Following Michael’s successful album “Bad,” Jermaine fired back with the diss single, “Word to the Badd!!.” Michael was livid and Jermaine was forced to rewrite the lyric to be about a former lover. Here’s the original song lyric:

What up yo, word to the badd

Reconstructed
Been abducted
Don’t know who you are
They may love you
they don’t know you
Lonely superstar
never think about who you love
only think about number one
You forget about where you started from
You only think about what you want
don’t care about how it’s done
you only think about you, your throne
Be it right or be it wrong

It ain’t about your world
It ain’t about the things that you do
If you don’t care, I don’t care
‘Cause you keep thinkin’ ’bout you
It ain’t about you takin’ my pie
You been takin’ for a long time
If you don’t care, I don’t care
If you keep
Well I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you

What up yo, word to the badd

Once you were made
You changed your shade
Was your color wrong?
Could not turn back
It’s a known fact
You were too far gone
You know I tried to be there for you
Like a brother I care for you
It didn’t matter you always play me off
You only care about what you want
You don’t care about how it’s done
You only think about you, your throne
Be it right or be it wrong

It ain’t about your world
It ain’t about the things that you do
If you don’t care, I don’t care
Cause you keep thinkin’ ’bout you
It ain’t about you takin’ my pie
You been takin’ for a long time
If you don’t care, I don’t care
If you keep
Well I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Oh no no, I ain’t thinkin’ ’bout you
Oh no

What up yo, word to the badd

Thinkin’ about that pie that you’ve been takin’ from me
From a brother to another brother hard to believe
Lost and don’t know it yet you still show it
Givin’ seems to be harder than it is to receive
The glass has gotten shady, time to make it clearer,
Clean it up and lets start with the Man in the mirror.
There’s sadness there brother, ain’t no mistaken it,
Get a grip cause you’re not far from breakin’ it.
Thinkin’ about the time when we used to be close,
It shouldn’t be past tense, cause nobody knows,
What the future may hold, what tomorrow might bring,
Its not guaranteed that you’ll be spreading your wings

But meanwhile, I continue to smile, cause in the back of my head,
I know you’re still a child
You say that your a man, but that will never be….
Gone too far, ya better turn back, I know who you are
You know where I’m at, sad but its true, from me to you.
Pick up the phone, Don’t be alone, step off the throne, come back home….

Have a listen to the original Jermaine disrespecting Michael song here:

Then there’s the as yet unpublished manuscript Jermaine co-wrote with “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask” co-author Stacy Brown, which rains dirt down on his little brother, Michael. The book proposal, titled “Legacy: Surviving the Best and the Worst,” Jermaine cites his doubts to his brother’s innocence in the child molestation case; questions his sexuality and anti-semitism; lists his preferred substances as being Vicodin, Demerol, codeine, Percocet, cocaine, Jack Daniels, and wine; outlines his odd behavior and his negative character traits, such as he cheats and lies. Quite the tome for a brother to have penned while now claiming sincerity over the loss of Michael. Flip-flop, follow the money.

Digital Cheeseburger, bellows:

Don’t know who you’re trying to fool, Jermaine, but you ain’t fooling us, bro’.