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VMAs air live from Los Angeles on Sunday, Sep twelve, at 9 p.m . ET.
By James Montgomery

Chelsea Handler

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The censors have been put on high rapt, and the celebs have been given satisfactory warning: Sardonic and sass-tacular stand up comic Chelsea Handler has been tapped to host the 2010 MTV Video Song Awards — airing live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sep twelve, at 9 p.m . ET — and things have been substantially gonna get a small raw.

“Everyone knows which when you think of swat song and hip-hop you think of ‘Chelsea Lately.’ And that’s because I will be hosting[ the show], ” Handler quipped when she pennyless the headlines on her show Wednesday night . “Let the ass-kissing proceed, ” the funnywoman smiled.

Handler — many appropriate well known for her exploits on the vast late-night speak show “Chelsea Lately” and her 3 best-selling, brutally honest( and brutally droll) books — won’t lift any punches on VMA night . She’ll additionally be creation a small story, apropos usually the second lady to fly piece for one person as VMA host and the initial given 1994, behind when Roseanne Barr lorded over the proceedings.

She’ll stick on a fast flourishing register of performers( together with Kanye West, Florence and the Machine, B.o.B and Justin Bieber) and presenters( Ke$ ha, Nicki Minaj, Ashley Greene and Ne-Yo) for the big show . And some-more names have been being combined daily.

While the theatre will be superfluous with stars, the tangible winners of the VMAs will be dynamic by you . Viewers can opinion for their favorites on VMA.MTV.com, and Verizon suscribers can content VMA to 97979( customary summary rates request) . Voting closes for many categories on Aug twenty-four, but the Many appropriate New Artist competition continues by Sep 12.

The 27th annual MTV Video Song Awards will be promote live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sep twelve at 9 p.m . ET . Be there!

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During six-song set in L.A., thespian speaks her mind and performs ‘Who Owns My Heart’ for the initial time.
By James Montgomery

Miley Cyrus performs at the House of Blues in Los Angeles

Photo: MTV

Her brand brand brand new manuscript is accessible right away . She has a ardent brand brand brand new perspective to go along with it . And both of those things were on arrangement Monday night( Jun twenty-one), as Miley Cyrus took to the House of Blues in Los Angeles for a live-streaming unison called, reasonably sufficient, “Miley Cyrus: Live in L.A.”

Her six-song set — streamed on MTV.com — showcased songs from her just-released Can’t Be Tamed and gave the 17-year-old Cyrus a possibility to get a bit rebel, vocalization her mind on a host of topics( together with violent relations and happy rights), prowling the theatre with role and even operative a impertinence or dual in to the mix.

She kicked things off with the pretension lane from Tamed, a strutting, erotic thing which saw her spitting lyrics, tossing her hair, popping her hips and even re-enacting the mistake lick she common with a womanlike dancer progressing this month on “Britain’s Got Talent”( yet, maybe in the suggestion of subsequent to event, she additionally common a feign bus with a masculine dancer) . But it wasn’t all sass . At song’s finish, Cyrus showed off her pipes a bit as well, fluctuating a “knoooooow” to stately lengths.

That was followed by an additional Tamed lane, “Who Owns My Heart”( which Cyrus introduced by revelation the watchful assembly which it was the initial time she’d ever achieved the lane live), which galloped along on a shuffling kick and was since combined punch interjection to the further of a live rope . There was a little complicated breathing from Cyrus and a big-time carol — “Who owns my heart/ Is it love, or is it art?” — which had the throng cheering along . Loudly.

She altered things up a bit with “Liberty Walk, ” a strain she co-wrote and dedicated to “women who have been stranded in violent relations .. . to commission them.” The strain — which facilities a stomping kick and even a bit of rapping from MC — additionally gave her the possibility to trip a integrate of “sh–s” by the censors as well .. . most to the pleasure of the audience.

Up subsequent was her cover of Poison’s “Every Rose Has The Thorn, ” which featured a little honestly windswept guitar work, but not Poison main male Bret Michaels( the dual achieved the balance together final week on “Good Morning America”) yet she did work at the strain to him and urged the assembly to “pray” for his one after another health( she additionally pronounced the strain was her mom’s the one preferred) .

“Rose” was followed by the anthemic “Robot, ” which saw the reappearance of her backup dancers, and afterwards the MTV.com live tide finished with “Heart Beats for Love, ” a power-packed ballad which Cyrus introduced by observant which she wrote it “mostly for my happy fans, ” adding which she abhorred the actuality which, “We have people on this earth who hatred someone for amatory another.”

She afterwards launched herself in to the strain, eyes sealed, creation a span of assent signs with her hands, and by the time the balance had reached the crescendo, everybody in the assembly was you do the same, display( most similar to all else on this night) not only the energy and certainty of Cyrus’ brand brand brand new songs, but the lean she binds over her fans as well . Lean she’s assumingly motionless to make use of for great . And, unequivocally, which speaks a lot louder than a little feign girl-on-girl movement any day of the week.

What did you think of Miley’s six-song set ? Let us know in the comments!

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