Fug File: MTV Europe Awards

MTV EMAs: Various And Sundry Random Fugs


The European randoms who populate these things are so much more interestingly nutballs than our homegrown ones.

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MTV EMAs Fug or Fab, With Bonus Fug: Alicia Keys


I don’t know — I just have the hardest time getting excited about Alicia Keys, which extends to anything she wears on the red carpet. Her latest song is called “This Girl Is On Fire,” and I swear, she could borrow Fezzik’s Holocaust cloak and ACTUALLY be on fire and I might still be like, “Eh, let me think about it after a sandwich.”

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MTV EMAs Slightly Better Played: Carly Rae Jepsen


Okay, so the headline here is misleading. I don’t really think this is that hot. But I’m just relieved CRJ is wearing something that actually does belong on a 26-year old person, as opposed to how she usually looks, which is like a Saturday Night Live actress languishing in a skit about toddlers.

Still on my list: a new hairstyle that flatters her face; an accomplished tailor; and a friend who knows when and how to send her to the aforementioned tailor. But the fabric is pretty. If you yanked it up and then fit it to her properly, and maybe threw in some better accessories and a headband, we might be able to get ourselves off this hellish roundabout.

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MTV EMAs Fug Carpet: Rita Ora


Hey, remember Shannyn Sossamon? Her name floated through my head because this photo of Rita Ora totally reminds me of her:

Well, facially, anyway. If you stuck Shannyn Sossamon in a blonde wig and told her to act like a one-woman Gone With The Wind Rose Parade float, this is what you’d get. Part of me thinks the drama inherent in this is appealing, but mostly, I just want to see the “before” photo from when it was hanging from her bedroom window. Who knew Maria Von Trapp and Scarlett O’Hara had so much in common.

Inside, Rita ditched it for something more stage-friendly:

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MTV EMAs Fug Carpet: Kim Kardashian


I mean, this seems about right.

FINALLY, Kim has gotten literal about it and worn quasi-coattails big enough to give a ride to her entire family. Also, I think everything in this photograph is flame retardant.

But it’s this picture that’s my favorite:

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MTV EMAs Unfug or Fab: Taylor Swift


Poor Taylor Swift. I get that by writing songs about her bad boyfriends, she’s putting those relationships under the microscope, but now Us Weekly is dedicating entire covers to how she — at the ripe old age of 22 — apparently can’t find love. Obviously she should just give up on her shriveled old eggs right now and invest in a burial plot for one. Instead, she somehow mustered up the will to carry on, and attended MTV’s European Music Awards.

The trouble is, I can’t decide if this is slinky and cool, or an experiment that needed some revisions. The frosted side abs aren’t ideal, for instance. The extra white decoration on the neckline could go, because those cap sleeves are pretty and don’t need the competition. And I’m a little wigged out by how it all converges to make it look like we’re seeing straight through it to an ice storm raining from her pelvis. And yet I can’t bring myself to write it off, because somehow there’s still something striking and pretty there. What would you do, Fug Nation?

What would you do, Fug Nation?

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