Finding A Host For The World Music Awards: It’s Complicated

The World Music Awards, the annual celebration of people who buy records to which none of those people are invited unless they pony up $22k on top of what they’ve already spent on albums, has given original host Lindsay Lohan the boot, presumably because she wasn’t dignified enough to host a semi-useless awards show that airs on myNetworkTV weeks after it actually happens. Lohan’s replacement: E! reality-TV star and former Wild Thing Denise Richards. (Who, it should be noted, has never put out a record. Burn!) I personally would have checked to see if the Shyguy who performed with Akon at last year’s ceremony was available, but I guess the WMA organizers didn’t want to get too classy in honor of its 20th anniversary.

So who’s nominated for this year’s World Music Awards, you ask? Well, that’s a very good question. The awards show’s official site (warning: VERY LOUD STREAMING MUSIC ahead) notes that the Legend Award will be given to L.A. Reid and the Diamond Award will be given to the Beatles, but other than that, details are vague. In fact, details are vague pretty much everywhere about this thing. It is the pseudo-est of pseudo-events, putting even the VMAs to shame, enough to make one wonder that any “awards” given out are an afterthought, little more than a way for the few major-label execs left to “expense” a trip to Monaco without raising the accounting department’s eyebrows. I guess I’ll have to remember that myNetworkTV exists in order to figure it out for myself.

Lindsay Lohan dropped as World Music Awards host [Mirror]

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