I confess, I bailed on the American Music Awards. I got bored almost immediately and just decided… not to keep going. It was so freeing! Jennifer Lopez hosted, and I did get as far as her opening the show with a song and then a dance routine set to popular music that isn’t hers, and it was fine, but sort of flat. Maybe she, too, wished she could exclude herself, but it was too late. Because she did not walk the red carpet. Like, at all. Usually, the host of a show like this hits the carpet right when it starts, so they can skedaddle back inside and change; the AMAs cannot have been THRILLED with this, but they did get plenty of outfits inside the building, so it wasn’t a total fashion wash.
