Madonna and Janet Give Perfect MJ Tribute

Now that we got our Kanye rant out of the way, we can talk about the good parts of MTV's Video Music Awards last night, and there were a lot!

The show opened with Madonna giving a very touching personal tribute to Michael Jackson. We've never seen her do earnest at the VMAs, but we liked it. It was followed immediately by a dance tribute to "Thriller," "Bad," and "Smooth Criminal." To top it all off, MJ's sister Janet came out to sing their duet, "Scream." The whole thing was pretty awesome. There have been a lot of tributes to MJ in the past few months, but none as great as this one.

And then a bunch of people won awards, or something. Does anyone actually care about that part of the show? We want to see the performances! So who sang?

Beyonce blew the roof off the place with "Single Ladies." Pink, attached to a harness, did acrobatics in the air while she sang "Sober." And Lady Gaga did something that started with a chandelier falling on her and ended with her covered in blood (seriously!) while she perfromed "Papparazzi." 

But don't worry. If you missed any of it, MTV will show it only about a million more times this week!