{"id":116623,"date":"2018-08-03T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=116623"},"modified":"2018-08-03T23:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T03:08:28","slug":"adam-levine-criticizes-mtvs-vma-awards-praises-childish-gambinos-america-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/08\/03\/adam-levine-criticizes-mtvs-vma-awards-praises-childish-gambinos-america-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Levine Comments On MTV Video Music Awards, Childish Gambino Video (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update 2:\u00a0<\/strong>After deleting the initial Tweet,\u00a0Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine addressed his latest criticism of the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shit. I don\u2019t usually put my foot in my mouth,&#8221; wrote Levine in a follow-up Twitter post. &#8220;But this time, I did. \u2018This is America\u2019 actually WAS nominated for 7 VMAs. How I didn\u2019t get the right info is beyond me. I stand corrected. I\u2019m sorry MTV. Still hate you though. but mostly, I\u2019m sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Levine, a longstanding critic of MTV&#8217;s annual awards show, initially criticized the network for snubbing Gambino&#8217;s &#8220;impactful, thought provoking and intelligent&#8221; video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure he doesn&#8217;t care that he wasn&#8217;t nominated for a VMA because he&#8217;s cool as fuck and everything,&#8221; wrote Levine in the original Tweeet. &#8220;But I care. Because I&#8217;m NOT that cool. And I still want MTV to mean something again. But it won&#8217;t. Ever. K bye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Upon realizing that Gambino&#8217;s video did, in fact, receive nominations (including a a nod for Video Of The Year), Levine deleted his post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shit. I don\u2019t usually put my foot in my mouth. But this time, I did. \u2018This is America\u2019 actually WAS nominated for 7 VMAs. How I didn\u2019t  get the right info is beyond me. I stand corrected. I\u2019m sorry MTV.  Still hate you though. but mostly, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Levine (@adamlevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamlevine\/status\/1025572719532756992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Levine&#8217;s critical Tweets about MTV and its awards show date back to 2011.<br \/>\n====<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Shortly after publication, Adam Levine deleted his Friday night Tweet about the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The Tweet found Levine, a well-known critic of the ceremony, remarking on Childish Gambino&#8217;s &#8220;impactful, thought provoking and intelligent&#8221; video for &#8220;This Is America&#8221; being snubbed from the VMA nominations.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, of course, is that &#8220;This Is America&#8221; <em>is<\/em> up for several awards this year, including Video Of The Year.<\/p>\n<p>In past years, Levine has Tweeted numerous criticisms of the annual MTV awards show.<br \/>\n====<br \/>\nOver the past several years, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has offered some very candid comments regarding the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>He continued that trend Friday night. With just over three weeks remaining until the August 27 ceremony, Levine Tweeted frustration that Childish Gambino&#8217;s &#8220;This Is America&#8221; was not nominated.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the video <i>is<\/i> nominated for several awards, including the top &#8220;Video of The Year&#8221; prize. Still, Levine&#8217;s Tweet makes for interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year, Childish Gambino released one of the most impactful, thought provoking, and intelligent videos ever made,&#8221; wrote Levine. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure he doesn&#8217;t care that he wasn&#8217;t nominated for a VMA because he&#8217;s cool as fuck and everything. But I care. Because I&#8217;m NOT that cool. And I still want MTV to mean something again. But it won&#8217;t. Ever. K bye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Levine&#8217;s Tweet is the latest in a long line of criticism against MTV and its annual video awards show.<\/p>\n<p>Past Tweets from Levine include, &#8220;the VMA&#8217;s. one day a year when MTV pretends to still care about music. I&#8217;m drawing a line in the sand. fuck you VMA&#8217;s,&#8221; &#8220;The VMA&#8217;s seriously used to be so awesome,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m five minutes into the #VMAs and I already need a shower.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he criticized the overall quality of the VMAs. He also expressed disappointment with how the show handled Julia Michaels&#8217; performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always exciting to see how utterly horrible the VMAs will be. They really delivered so far this year. #HOLYFUCK,&#8221; wrote Levine. &#8220;Julia Michaels gets cut off while she&#8217;s singing and Lorde gets to NOT sing her whole song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Sick at the time of the ceremony, Lorde danced to her song &#8220;Homemade Dynamite.&#8221; She did not attempt to sing.)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q521aRBEqW\">pic.twitter.com\/Q521aRBEqW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Levine (@adamlevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamlevine\/status\/1025559191631552513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-116625\" src=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Adam-Levine-Tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Adam-Levine-Tweet.jpg 501w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Adam-Levine-Tweet-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Adam-Levine-Tweet-200x221.jpg 200w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Adam-Levine-Tweet-364x403.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Levine offers a new comment about MTV&#8217;s annual video awards show.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047,1048],"tags":[367,1385,382,689],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adam Levine Comments On MTV Video Music Awards, Childish Gambino Video (Update)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update 2:\u00a0After deleting the initial Tweet,\u00a0Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine addressed his latest criticism of the MTV Video Music Awards. &quot;Shit. 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