Here is a humorous one. This 12 months, the MTV Video Music Awards have dropped the present’s Finest Rock class for the primary time within the present’s 37-year historical past. However right this moment, the oldsters at MTV have introduced that the community’s highest lifetime achievement honor, the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, will probably be bestowed upon Nirvana. Lastly, some institutional recognition for Nirvana!
The Beatles acquired a Video Vanguard Award throughout the first VMAs in 1984, however that award has solely gone to rock bands a handful of instances, and it hasn’t gone to any since Duran Duran in 2003. Often, the Vanguard Award provides a pop legend a possibility for a greatest-hits efficiency; that is what Mariah Carey did when she gained it final 12 months. I assume it is potential that Nirvana might do one other TV efficiency with totally different company. They’ve executed that just a few instances in recent times, most just lately with Put up Malone on the SNL 50 live performance final 12 months.
Immediately occurs to be the thirty fourth anniversary of Nirvana’s first VMA look. On at the present time in 1992, they carried out “Lithium” after threatening to play “Rape Me,” acquired right into a backstage tiff with Weapons N’ Roses, and accepted the Finest New Artist award from Boyz II Males and Wilson Phillips. They defeated Arrested Growth, Tori Amos, and Cracker. Kurt Cobain wore a Daniel Johnston shirt. This 12 months, Stella Lefty and Will Ferrell’s son are up for that exact same award.
This 12 months’s VMAs go down 9/27. They’re going to air on CBS and MTV and stream on Paramount+.
