At The BET Awards Tonight, @souljaboytellem Lost, So How Come You Can Still Vote For Him?

BET Awards were great, tonight. Amazing job by everyone there. Best thing about this is that all the artists — even those not nominated, performing or presenting — descend on LA and go nuts for it. You can feel how psyched they are, and how much it means to them. The whole night just feels bigger than ever, and more relevant.

Congratulations to BET, this year, for scrapping their show’s theme and huge elements planned for months, all to honor the legacy of MJ.

Not easy, and they only had a few days, but it worked. They demonstrated the kind of acrobatics our audiences expect of us now.

I gotta say that Coke’s Studio Red looked pretty good. That’s got to be the work of the inimitable Alvin Bowles, if I had to guess. I will assume Coke CMO Joe Tripodi was not here (I would have loved to have seen you in this context, Joe). Something tells me Joe would have tweeted if he’d been there…”

Just two things I think need mention:

1) Did you know while all this was happening tonight, Stevie Wonder was out playing a show in Minneapolis? Something misaligned about that.

2) Souljaboy got robbed. He should have won “Viewers Choice.” But here’s the fun part — YOU CAN SOMEHOW STILL VOTE FOR HIM. That’s right, the show is over, the BET Awards were all handed out, but in an oversight sure to inspire more and more faith in the legitimacy of award shows. Make sure you vote for him over and over and over again…


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