{"id":33985,"date":"2016-08-31T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33985"},"modified":"2016-08-31T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T22:06:28","slug":"most-improved-at-2016-vmas-girl-squads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/most-improved-at-2016-vmas-girl-squads\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Improved at 2016 VMAs: &#8220;Girl&#8221; Squads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got one more thing to say about Sunday&#8217;s MTV Video Music Awards. Even though the show itself was dull due to poor programming, at least the right people were recognized. If Beyonc\u00e9 hadn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2016\/08\/29\/beyonces-lemonade-performance-wins-big-at-2016-mtv-vmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">won big<\/a> after her visual album, <em>Lemonade<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/kanye-west-storms-the-vmas-stage-during-taylor-swifts-speech-20090913\" target=\"_blank\">we would have <em>all<\/em> been Kanye West in 2009<\/a>. The six Moonmen that Beyonc\u00e9 won that night makes her the VMAs record holder: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/events\/vma\/7487949\/beyonce-most-vmas-madonna\" target=\"_blank\">Her 22 awards surpass Madonna&#8217;s 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 also pulled off a major upgrade <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/my-best-dressed-at-the-2015-mtv-vmas-is\" target=\"_blank\">over the 2015 VMAs when it came to her &#8220;girl&#8221; squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33988\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade.w1200.h630.1x.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade.w1200.h630.1x\" width=\"498\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade.w1200.h630.1x.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade.w1200.h630.1x-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She made a Black Lives Matter political statement, in keeping with her video for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/valentines-dayanti-valentines-day-countdown-6-of-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">Formation<\/a>,&#8221; by bringing as her guests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/29\/arts\/music\/beyonce-vma-black-lives-matter.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Sybrina Fulton, Gwen Carr, Lezley McSpadden and Wanda Johnson<\/a>. They are the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Oscar Grant III \u2014 four black men who were killed in encounters with police or (in Martin&#8217;s case) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/07\/03\/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-trial\/2485825\/\" target=\"_blank\">wannabe police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But even if I didn&#8217;t know who those women were, I would agree with this tweet.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is what i call : AN UPGRADE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VMAs?src=hash\">#VMAs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbLrozJpZT\">pic.twitter.com\/zbLrozJpZT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; maria (@hoeitup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hoeitup\/status\/770049616830164995\">August 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cute vs. fierce, and fierce wins!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got one more thing to say about Sunday&#8217;s MTV Video Music Awards. Even though the show itself was dull due to poor programming, at least the right people were recognized. If Beyonc\u00e9 hadn&#8217;t won big after her visual album, Lemonade, we would have all been Kanye West in 2009. 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