Lets agree that most of America was counting on Amy Winehouse being a train wreck…

Woo fucking Hoo – what a great performance and a handful of well deserved awards for her and for Producer of the Year Mark Ronson ( Lily Allen, Winehouse and Himself).  Its too bad we are so fascinated with drama and so many of you assholes were looking forward to another  MTV VMA  Britney stupification.

Nothing like that here – not tonight. Altogether the show was done quite well.

Of note to the Nightlife Community;

Best Dance Recording went to Justin Timberlake for LoveStoned / I Think She Knows.  Nice to see a commercial force releasing a good dance record ( Hats off to Rihanna as well).  Personally, it would have been more refreshing to see an underground act a la Justice get a well deserved trophy.

Best Electronic / Dance Album went to personal favorites The Chemical Brothers for one of their less creative efforts- could it have been the familiar Bud Commercial that helpde this along?  I would of went with LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver.

Best Remix – I love this category!    I can’t understand why Dirty South didn’t get this.  Dirty South bascially lay down the law in terms of the current facination of pop electro.  Dirty South may be one of the most ifluential remixers in re-establishing  the breaking of dance Music into the Pop Culture.  Now in praise of the winner Benassi;  if judging on the body of work then Benassi is hands down the absolute winner in this category – Bring the Noise was a great concept and  rocks but for my money and sweat its not the best of show to crank the dancefloor which HAS to come into play when voting on this category.

Now; Pahlease Will I Am Give it up…The show was going realtivly well until that forced crapola Will decided to spew forth thanks a lot….Great Performance byAlicia Keys – even better than the incredible SuperBowl Pre Game jam!

Amy Winehouse photo courtesy of ABC TV