As a college student who is active on social media, it may be common knowledge that Pharrell Williams wore a hat that resembles Smokey Bear’s famous headgear on the Grammy’s this past month. Or even that Jennifer Lawrence fell up the stairs when going to accept her Oscar last year.
But the real question is, do you even have to watch these award shows to know about what’s going on live at the show? Do you need to watch the Grammy’s or the CMA’s to know that Taylor Swift sang a sappy or angry love song about one of her ex-boyfriends?
If you have Twitter or Facebook, you probably don’t.
It drives my family and friends insane when I force them to watch these award shows, but no matter what they say, they sit through the show just to appease me.
This past month I was tasked with making the most difficult decision of my entire life: Do I watch The Bachelor Wedding Special, or do I watch the Grammy Awards?
As a reality TV junkie, I was at a crossroads being that both specials were on at the same time. Knowing that the Grammy’s would be live streamed through the people I follow on Twitter, I chose to watch the wedding.
It wasn’t really the most difficult decision of my life, but my twitter followers made this somewhat hard decision a much easier one.
While watching the wedding, I scrolled through my Twitter, seeing that most of my followers were tweeting about the Grammy’s. Some thought they saw Beyoncé have a nip-slip and all were tweeting and posting statuses about their thoughts on the latest awards.
Their thoughts on the latest awards were mostly complaints about how their favorite singer didn’t win an award they wanted but they still continued to watch and continued to tweet. I was seeing tons of tweets about Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Taylor Swift, Lorde, and my favorite, Hunter Hayes.
I knew about my favorite celebrities and my friends opinions on my favorite celebrities within seconds of their performances and speeches.
All of this refreshing of my Twitter feed seeing hashtag after hashtag about the Grammy’s really made me wonder if I needed to watch a recap of the Grammy awards at all. I don’t see a point in watching the award shows at all anymore.
If you’re not big into the Hollywood world like I am, but you’re thinking about watching these shows, don’t even bother.
You social media friends will watch and tell you all about it as it’s going on. You’re not going to miss anything if you don’t watch. Life will go on if you miss a Katy Perry performance or one of your favorite celebrities accept up an award.
Most likely one of your friends already posted a picture of that celebrity with their award on their Twitter, or the entire acceptance speech is on YouTube.
I have to admit, I have in the past tweeted about my favorite celebrities during these award shows, sometimes more than I should, but by doing this it’s taking away the appeal to turn on the awards show for some of the intended viewers.
Now that the biggest award show of the season, the Oscars is coming up, maybe I’ll save my family the pain and not watch the show, instead I’ll log onto Twitter and Facebook to get the real scoop.
Onsecond thought, Leonardo DiCaprio finally has a chance to win an Oscar, and I really want to see that.
PHOTO TAKEN from ibtimes.com
