MOBO'S 2006 (REVIEW)

EVENTS

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On Wednesaday 20th September, some of the biggest names in urban music came out to celebrate the so-called origin of black music. The MOBO Awards 2006 was held last night at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Sugababe Keisha Buchanan attends the MOBO Awards 2006, and poses back stage. Keisha's ex-band mate Mutya Buena (right) also turned up with her friends but why wasn't she seen any where near Keisha?

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Singer Amerie poses backstage in the awards room at the MOBO Awards 2006

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Rihanna's arrival

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She performs Unfaithful

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Rihanna poses backstage and (right) she accepts her award. You can also see Cassie in the background.

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Letoya Luckett performed Torn at last nights Mobo's and belted her heart out.

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Letoya arrives for the show and looks fab!

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Ex-Misteeq member Alesha Dixon dazzles in a new bobbed hairstyle.

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Su-Elise who was also a Misteeq member attended and had some fun by the looks of it.

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Keshia White did her thang.

The Mobo's (Music of Black Origin) was crapper than crap. The two presenters who hosted the show was stand-up comedian Gena Yashere and Gangster's Paradise rapper Coolio. Gena was so not funny. Her jokes were corny and unappealing. She was trying way too hard to be funny and her jokes weren't executed well at all. She is just too damn ghetto and over the top. There were technicalities throughout the show. I can't believe I watched this piece of crap. I know it was the first time they went live but it was poorly put together, the sounding was off and the performances were boring. The show opened with Rihanna singing Unfaithful and you could tell she was nervous as hell. She didn't seem to gain much confidence even when she was in darkness and then appeared from out the shadows in a tiny black PVC dress, much to the roars of an appreciative British crowd.

Keisha Buchanan from the Sugababes looked nice for a change. Hair was on point and she presented an award in a sexy little silver number. Keisha presented an award to Akala, a British Hip Hop artist who announced that back in Manchester tomorrow, he's supporting Jay-Z on his tour. Amerie came out and presented an award but Beyonce wasn't there to accept it so Amerie accepted it on her behalf. Amerie looked amazing. Black Eyed Peas won Best Group but they weren't there either. Half of the winners weren't even there. Corinne Bailey Rae performed Put Your Records On and sounded wonderful (no she wasn't lip-synching either). Then Lemar performed his latest single to date, It's Not That Easy. Cassie and Beenie man came onto the stage to present the award for Best R&B. Cassie was telling the crowd that it was her first time in the UK but when she announced the winner she was like: "She's my girl right there, it's Rihanna!" so Rihanna came onto the stage and hugged Cassie. In that category, Rihanna beat Ne-yo, Mary J Blige, Beyonce and Jamie Foxx. Jamelia performed Something About You. I didn't care for her performance but she did look good.

Kelle Bryan from ex-pop group Eternal looked good and she presented the award for Best Song. It was Beyonce's Deja Vu. Sean Paul won the Reggae category but the dancehall artist was nowhere in sight. Tim Westwood accepted the award. He apparently gave Westwood a message to read out to the crowd. I love Alesha Dixon but I can't understand how she was nominated for Best UK Female when Lipstick was a major flop. It was as if they didn't have any valid nominees so they put up ANYBODY, just to fill up the category not to mention that Alesha's song was pop/rock. Jamelia has disassociated herself with anything to do with black-origin music by performing a ROCK song. Her song is not black-origin orientated. Letoya Luckett performed Torn! I so wasn't expecting that! She looked beautiful! The hair, the aqua coloured long dress and her vocals were very impressive (well of course, duh, she was lip-synching) but to say this was her first major British performance, she did fantastic.

Best International Male. Chris Brown, Ne-yo, Pharrell Williams, Kanye West and Jay-Z were ALL nominees but Jay-Z won the nomination. He wasn't there. It was weird because when they showed Jay-Z, they showed the Deja Vu video. I'm sorry, why was Jay-Z nominated? Deja Vu is BEYONCE'S song not Jay-Z's. I mean, Jay-Z hasn't released any new music in like months and he was still nominated. Once again, another mockery from the MOBO Awards where it completely loses its credibility. International female Award was presented by Mica Paris. Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys (they showed the Babycham video and Alicia hasn't released any of her own music in like two years so why the fuck wasn't Mariah Carey nominated?). Beyonce, Nelly Furtado and Mary J Blige were all nominees. Beyonce won in that category and the crowd BOOED!!! Did anybody catch that? LMAO. Mica Paris was like: "Yo, it aint my fault, I don't decide". I think they were expecting it to be Janet.

Well, that was basically it for me. I didn't see no well-known international superstars. Soul "legend" Sam Moore you could say, but not big in MY generation and who was the other superstar suppose to be? Coolio? Oh okay, whatever. Anyway Sam Moore was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. They showed a clip of American Idol judge Randy Jackson complimenting him. They closed off the show with Sam Moore collaborating with new British R&B singer Keisha White. He sang I Can't Stand The Rain because originally, it's his song, and Keisha joined him, then he sang Soulman. I had no idea Keisha White was only 20 years old. She looks older than me, but beautiful nevertheless. The show was a letdown to me and the ONLY highlight of the show was Letoya Luckett's performance. Other than that, it wasn't worth tuning in for at all.