#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: Award Season is My Favorite Song

The only thing I like about Fall and Winter besides Halloween, NY Comic Con, and Thanksgiving is award season. Maybe it comes from the many teenage years I spent glued to the VMAs (that was my big television event.) I wouldn’t even invite friends over to watch – it was those times when you would rush home from seeing your friends at school, then pick up the phone to talk to your friends from school. Yes, that’s how we watched the VMAs together and I had a rule, you cannot, under any circumstances, change the channel. This comes from my experience flipping during commercials and coming back to having missed some dramatic debauchery or amazing performance. This was back in the day when the VMAs were at least entertaining. I remember the day I finally changed the channel, U2 was performing and halfway through – I just got so bored that I instinctively clicked away. I don’t think I’ve watched another one since then – until this year. I watched it because everyone was talking about something Taylor Swift did and a speech Pink made. It affirmed my dislike of Taylor Swift, that Katy Perry is the ultimate white woman, and Pink is the shit – but all of these things I already knew.

Moving away from my younger years, I now watch grown-up award shows, they just get me so excited! It’s not even the classy dresses or bad red carpet decisions, it’s the recognition, the anticipation! I root for movies, for actors, for performances. It’s the hosts, it’s the speeches, the all-around joy or di…