The Medium IS the Message, isn't it? And I predict the same old Malarky as i consider, again, watching this year's "Post Ratchet-Era BET AWARDS SHOW".....coming soon.....But, for now, here's my Ticker Tape......

THE ANNUAL 'BET AWARDS SHOW' will be aired in a few days.......for this year's 'trend updates'.   Recalling the last music awards show that i sat through  a few years back, I'll be not likely to stare at a screen.... having tuned in to the Noisy Look At Me Live Show  some  years ago..... just as Little Big Town was standing, country ABBA style, delivering their big hit, almost yawning, having performed it a jillion times before......   as  I watched/listened from the get-go....skipping both the ads for Acne and mood-disorder meds and the mostly attitudinal tongue-stumbling acceptance speeches.....ZZzzz.....Noting that year's prevailing conformacy of Matrix-styled long coats and jackets, bejewelled ladypanties on breast-pumping, crotch-grabbing second tier backup performers, deep-knee-bending, status athletic shoe wearing predictability........just to set the 'tone' for the coming indulgences........This is NOT to imply that I didn't 'get off' on the performances, however!    Kendrick Lamar doin' his thang, surrounded by squatting, super-shorter-than him terrorist  hip-hoppers in post-apocalyptic military assault gear, fronting 5, or was that 7....to 'up' the excitement, up-facing pivot spots, joined by some glowingly white  transgenderish Kabuki drummer, who....abandoning her/his hyper-extensions behind the skins, joined him in chimp squats and head-bobbing, before heading, mouth-up, between Lamar's parting thighs as the red inundates the stage, as Kendrick shoots the trannie.......wait....then a brief intermission....as Dave Chappell confirmed that this performance was almost too edgy for CBS.....then, back to  Kendrick's unintelligible-anyway lyrics.......All this.....in Red, of course...with a Mephisto-ish Bono, costumed as a Kabuki demon...no less.......All this in an enormous, throbbingly patriotic showdown......cut to some damage control:  "This is a Satire by Kendrick Lamar".......as KL shoots the now red-shrouded, white plastic hospital ID-wearing, faceless dance crew, that later resurrects during a mega-kilowatt light show,  as Kendrick implores us to burn everyone that we, mistakenly, thought was dear to us........Fade to Black.......Tumultuous Applause, as Nero fiddles while Rome Burns.......   Did I see what you saw, folks? Did I hear what you heard, folks?    Don't blow out the speakers on your hand-held devices.......