Lady Gaga, dressed as her alter ego, Joe Calderone, holds VMA awards. She won the award of Best Female Video for “Born This Way”.

The end of summer brings one of the greatest award shows to our television sets: The MTV Video Music Awards. In past years, we have seen some amazing performances, such as Green Day’s slime filled version of “American Idiot” and the stunning kiss between Britney Spears, Madonna and Christina Aguilera. This year we had some hot and some not so hot performances.
The show started off with the never dull Lady Gaga singing her newest single, “You and I.” She was dressed as alter ego Joe Calderone, which she continued to play all night. I am the first to admit I am a Lady Gaga super fan, but she was just borderline obnoxious during the VMAs. During her performance, Gaga fell to the ground when she slipped on a beer she had spilled on stage.
An outstanding performance of the night was Adele who sang her heart-wrenching break-up ballad titled “Someone Like You”. Jay-Z & Kanye West gave a surprise performance and they were almost attacked by an audience member who rushed on stage, but was escorted off before getting to the duo. Beyonce gave viewers a spell-binding performance. She followed by announcing to the world that she is pregnant with her first child, with husband Jay-Z.
Other performances included Lil Wayne, Pitbull, Neyo and Young The Giant, which I found to be boring and uninteresting.
The worst performance of the night came when Chris Brown delivered a weird dance/lip-sync performance. He came out dancing to “Yeah 3x,” paid tribute to 1993 Wu Tang and then went back in time to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Now, why pay tribute to those two completely random artists? Where was every other year and why a rock song? He continued to dance around the stage and lip-sync. I feel that if you are going to lip-sync, you should not even bother wearing a microphone. Also, you might as well make it a dance performance over a lip-syncing vocal performance. Brown flew through the air like Peter Pan. When all was said and done, Chris received a standing ovation. I just didn’t understand why. It was a terrible performance.

The high points of the night came when Lady Gaga, still dressed as alter ego Joe Calderone, honored Britney Spears with the Michael Jackson Icon Award. Spears was paid tribute by a group of dancers, who danced to her hits like “Baby, One More Time,” “Crazy,” “Oops!…I Did It Again,” “Toxic” and other recent hits.

I was also very excited when Katy Perry took home top honors, winning Video Of The Year for her song about acceptance and being who you are, titled “Firework.”

However, the highest point of the night was when Tony Bennett paid tribute to the late Amy Winehouse, and was honored by Bruno Mars, who sang Winehouse’s song “Valerie.” You may also have heard this song when it was covered on Glee. I liked that they chose to celebrate her life and accomplishments in a happy and exciting way, not sad and gloomy.

Some people who I feel got snubbed are Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You,” which lost to Justin Bieber’s “U Smile” for Best Male Video. Also, Whiz Khalifa who lost to Tyler, The Creator for Best New Artist.

A list of winners who were awarded during the show is as follows:
Best Pop Video- Britney Spears “Till the World Ends”
Best Rock Video- Foo Fighters “Walk”
Best Hip-Hop Video- Nicki Minaj “Super Bass”
Best Collaboration- Katy Perry & Kanye West “E.T.”
Best Male Video- Justin Bieber “U Smile”
Best New Artist- Tyler, The Creator
Best Female Video- Lady Gaga “Born This Way”
Video Of The Year- Katy Perry “Firework”

So You Think You Can Dance crowns another winner this summer in its all-star season.

It has been a summer of crazy reality television and super season finales. After saying goodbye to regular season shows like Glee, Grey’s Anatomy and American Idol; we ushered in our summer season television.

This summer, I have been tuned into just about every reality television show under the sun: Big Brother, Expedition Impossible, So You Think You Can Dance, Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, America’s Got Talent, The Bachelorette and now, The Bachelor Pad 2.

In typical dramatic fashion, we saw yet another Bachelorette choose her dream guy on a beautiful beach in the tropics. After being tossed to the curb by every other guy, including the infamous Bentley, Ashley had a hard time finding her one true love because the guys were all expecting the former Bachelor winner’s choice, Emily, to return as the Bachelorette.

Ashley eventually found her special man after a sister-sister argument about who the right man was for her. She found herself accepting the proposal from the hunky J.P. Now, after a week break of the Bachelorette madness, America has jumped right into The Bachelor Pad, full of previous bachelors and bachelorettes. Only two episodes have aired, yet there is already some amazing drama being thrown down. We saw the return of one of the most hated winners ever, Vienna with her new beau Casey. Mouths dropped when Vienna watched ex-fiancé Jake Pavelka walk through the door. It is sure to be a thrilling season, with many ups and downs. Since the show is still in its early stages, there is plenty of time to dive into this guilty pleasure.

My favorite shows of the summer are coming to a close, and one has already ended. So You Think You Can Dance, had by far its best season of dancing to date. We saw the return of all-stars and found new stars in this captivating season. There were guest judges, including Christina Applegate and Lady Gaga; and a winner emerged early in the season when they discovered Melanie Moore, who eventually won it all.

The finale of a new show called Expedition Impossible airs next Thursday. This show is a combination of Survivor and Amazing Race. I think this show could be around for many more great seasons.

On America’s Got Talent, we are down to the semifinals, with the finale airing Oct. 15. It airs every Tuesday with the results show on Wednesday.

Finally, my favorite reality show of the summer is Big Brother on CBS. This show airs on Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. It is a show just like Survivor, but the contestants are locked in a house and evicted one by one. They are down to the elite eight. This is one show that is sure not to disappoint, so don’t miss a single episode.

Some shows to keep your eye on are, of course, MTV’s golden classics like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom; MTV will also be aired its best award show, the VMA’s on Aug. 28 with its exciting opening act Lady Gaga. A few more shows to watch out for are FOX’s The X Factor, created by Simon Cowell, and the return of America’s Next Top Model. This year on Top Model, is an all-star season of girls who are coming back from previous seasons to try again at winning it all.

Also, don’t forget about the return of CBS’s Survivor, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and FOX’s Glee.