dd01ONED One Direction wins MTV Award in snoozy start to show

Squeal! Photo: MTV/PictureGroup Let’s ignore the irony that MTV is still holding an awards show celebrating videos that they don’t play. Regardless of their commitment to low-rent reality programming, they’ll still, somehow, be the channel most associated with music, so if you’re Taylor Swift or Alicia Keys, why not trot out your new songs on such a visible platform? Or, if you’re Rihanna, you can also use the occasion to debut your new pixie cut, as she did during the show opening double-shot of “Cockiness,” where she rose from the stage on a throne and gyrated… >>

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