April 2, 2007

Junos '07: Saskatoon-Less

This year's Juno Awards were held in the Canadian cultural hotbed of Saskatoon, SK. Even before the show, there was some controversey as to whether or not CTV would provide tape delay or live coverage. After getting some heat about the scheduled tape delay broadcast, CTV opted for a live showing. As it turned out, they should have pulled the plug on the show entirely.

As usual, the telecast began with the Red Carpetbaggers filing into the arena and being interviewed by Canada's version of Howdy Doody. You know the guy - he is the offspring of one of the two most despicable Prime Ministers Canada has ever had. Ironically, the other lousy Prime Minister is currently in office and is also a puppet himself. What is it with these politician guys? If they are not puppets, they breed puppets. But enough of that.

So after Howdy and his counterpart, Tanya Kim, were finished asking the same boring and redundant questions to a bunch of alleged musical talent, it was showtime. Unlike Howdy and to her credit, Tanya does a good job on the red carpet. She is well dressed, composed, professional and has a likeable personality.

As expected, Junos 2007 quickly turned into a two hour Nelly Furtado commercial/love fest. Yeah, like we didn't see enough of her during the endless promotional commercials leading up to the Junos. Actually, I kind of felt sorry and embarrassed for Nelly. I do not know why she agreed to jump through hoops and degrade herself during a couple of the show's skits. At the end of the day, this just cheapens her credibility as an artist.

The highlight of the show has to go to K-os. While performing, he changed up on his lyrics singing, "this show is not me, this show is propaganda." I beg to differ with that statement Mr. K-os! Even some forms of propoganda are entertaining.

With all due respect to The Guess Whow, Junos 2007 was a perfect example of why never to run back to Saskatoon.

-HH GOP Culture, Montreal