@isittherightword: Pop Culture Is Being Force-Fed to Us and the VMAs Prove It Watching award shows try to dictate what’s relevant in music has become completely unbearable. Between rumors of pay-to-play trophies and holding the entire audience hostage with staged announcements and forced video premieres, the VMAs showed just how desperate the industry has become to maintain control. While actual cultural heavy-hitters were shoved to the background or left out entirely due to political censorship, major labels continue to over-saturate the market. Consumers are experiencing total pop fatigue, and when an award show ignores organic momentum in favor of corporate force, it loses all credibility. Critical Condition Episode 11: This Moonman Didn’t Land: The Fall of the VMAs is available wherever you get your podcasts and on my YouTube channel at @isittherightword ✨🎧 #VMAs #TaylorSwift #OliviaRodgrigo #ZaraLarsson #CriticalCondition
I miss the VMA golden era😭 the Olivia snub turned me off forever though!!
2026-10-29 03:39:01
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Lydiaofthestars :
The death of the vmas is honestly quite sad. Paparazzi, slave 4 you, Like a virgin, the KISSSSS, BLURRED LIIIIINESS??? IMMA LET YOU FINISH?
2026-10-29 03:41:13
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miamia17281 :
stateside on mtv would have been legendary and that mv was AMAZING
2026-10-29 09:45:48
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AJ Whittier 🖋️📚🎬 :
Death of award shows in general is so interesting. If you didnt watch them, you had nothing to talk about the next day. The whole family would watch together, and now I dont watch any of them. I’ll catch the highlights later.
2026-10-29 06:30:17
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KimH :
Yung Lean’s performance was 🔥
2026-10-29 03:44:09
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Ema | ADHD Minimalist 🇨🇦 :
Your eye rolls are exquisite 👏👏
2026-10-29 16:42:36
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MacCrae🏳️🌈 ☭ :
And I’m old Madonna’s Like a Virgin was so iconic at the time. Madonna doesn’t get enough credit for everything she’s done. She’s the queen of reinventing herself and snagging up the she’s, theys and gays. She set everything up for lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, and now Chappell Roan.
2026-10-30 01:44:59
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rpm.inabus :
The meat dress is jerky now
2026-10-29 03:52:27
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LauraG :
I'm old, old, so I remember Madonna's VMA performance of Like A Virgin at the very 1st VMAs, I was a little girl, & didn't even know what a virgin was, but I remember the adults basically being stunned at the performance.
2026-10-29 04:21:34
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naija.bee :
I also have to add - Beyoncé's iconic 2014 medley performance of self-titled!
2026-11-03 22:24:05
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doreemay :
you are eloquent , your flow and clarity of train of thoughts is amazing you remind of Candace owens like her or hate her she is a great communicator and you are you 🔥
2026-10-29 16:25:38
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larrylew :
‘Force fed Patient Zero’. Exactly
2026-10-29 13:59:18
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la :
sometimes I really envy Taylor's blind confidence lol. remember when she went on Fallon and sat there passionately mouthing the words and dancing in her seat to clips of all the showgirl songs? her swaying and bopping to Patient Zero on stage at the VMAs felt like that, and I was just like damn, she is so unafraid to go all in on herself 😂
2026-10-29 11:33:34
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MacCrae🏳️🌈 ☭ :
Turn on mtv now it’s just 2 shows that are ever on . Ridiculousness and catfished. That’s all that’s playing on mtv. It’s on its last leg they’re irrelevant now
2026-10-30 01:38:51
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Cat Lover 63 :
Us older millennials are so maternal and protective towards Olivia 🥰😆
2026-10-29 19:37:31
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