Pink managed to upstage Lady Gaga for the most WTF? performance of the evening

Ga Ga's performances always elicit a raised eyebrow from me.  Stephanie has undeniable talent insofaras songwriting, piano, vocals, and creativity, but I can't help but wondering why she feels the need to try to frighten me with each of her performances.  Why oh why does she have to have some unattractive costume with her ass hanging out?  Why does she have to bleed, get dirty, or almost set herself on fire?  Why the spectacle?  In my opinion, it only detracts from her music.  I cannot believe Sir Elton John went along with this fuckery.  You just know he had to take a Valium before they rubbed that soot on his pampered visage.

Now Pink?  That right there?  This $hit right here?  I was really feeling her performance when she came out backlit in the robes.  It was pretty...then she stripped nekkid and lost me.  If that had been anyone else--say Janet Jackson, for instance--the censors would have cut to a test pattern or a commercial or something.  The public would have been in an uproar and CBS would have been fined by the FCC.  Yes, I know she was in a body stocking, but she showed way more than Janet ever did at the Super Bowl as did her gilded angelic friends.  Then there's the issue of the...fluid.  WTF was that?  Let me just say, if that had been me in the audience wearing a borrowed designer gown on loan with a million dollars worth of jewels getting wet with fake amniotic fluid or piss or whatever, someone might have been extracting a Jimmy Choo from their aerobicized glutes.

Double standard much?

Please tell me why it was okay for Pink to wear a pasty during her entire MTV VMA performance on Sunday and for Lady Gaga to freaking bleed out onstage but somehow Janet's pasty was so offensive they had to kill her career (but not Justin's)?

Kanye posted an apology on his website

Kanye posted an apology for his heckling during the VMA's:

"I'M SOOOOO SORRY TO TAYLOR SWIFT AND HER FANS AND HER MOM," Kanye wrote on his site, AP reported. "I SPOKE TO HER MOTHER RIGHT AFTER AND SHE SAID THE SAME THING MY MOTHER WOULD'VE SAID. SHE IS VERY TALENTED!"

Others aren't really buying his apology:

Pink tweeted about her annoyance with Kanye. "Kanye West is the biggest piece of sh-t on earth. Quote me," she wrote. "My heart goes out to Taylor Swift. She is a sweet and talented girl, and deserved her moment. She should know we all love her." She later said on the Today Show that the incident never would have happened if she had won because she had a cute Alexander McQueen purse with brass knuckles on it.

Now, I'm going to be honest here. I had heard Taylor Swift's name before but couldn't pick her out of a lineup before last night (and maybe still this morning). When I saw Kanye run up next to her on stage I thought it was part of the night's skits. After listening to what he had to say, I felt sorry for the girl. That was her first VMA and she is only 19. To her credit, Beyonce looked shocked and embarassed (though some are saying she and Kanye orchestrated the event). Maybe this was another Eminem-Sascha Baron Cohen type scam. If so, it was in poor taste just like so much of the awards show (Russell Brand's jokes, Lady Ga Ga's 'performance', etc.).

As far as Bey goes, it was just good PR for her to 'graciously' give up her award acceptance time to Taylor. If she hadn't, the backlash would have extended to her. Her PR team was just earning their keep. The same applies to her pre-show statement that Janet Jackson was one of her inspirations. This after her quote earlier this year: “I grew up upper class. Private school..My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons, but I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.” Um, yeah. It doesn't sound much like she idolized her. More like just swaggerjacked her style and kept it moving.