BONUS: The MTV VMAs weren't even on MTV this year
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
We keep saying this is the worst VMAs ever, and we're always right. This year hit new lows of being both irrelevant and unwatchable, thank god for Sabrina.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. |
| 0:03.7 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a song versus song bonus episode every year. |
| 0:10.8 | For some reason, we watch the MTV video music awards. |
| 0:17.2 | But I'm not sure we did that this year. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't. |
| 0:20.7 | What did you described it as something else? |
| 0:23.6 | No, someone on on Blue Sky called it the MTV Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. |
| 0:29.0 | Painful. |
| 0:30.2 | We have, since we've been doing this for so long and we don't remember why we're doing it, |
| 0:35.3 | we decided to invite a third person with us. |
| 0:38.0 | Say hi. |
| 0:39.4 | How the fuck did I end up back here again? |
| 0:42.6 | What is the fuck am I doing here? |
| 0:45.8 | We needed a young to give us perspective on what we're saying. |
| 0:51.1 | We brought on Emily because Emily, you really, you're like tuned in to the MTV culture. I'm really hip with the youth right now. I'm constantly going over what is and what is not hot with Gen. Is that Gen Alpha? What are we on? Yeah. Yes, you're going, what is their hot or not.com? I don't know. They don't have any of the things we had. |
| 1:12.8 | They just have TikTok. |
| 1:14.6 | The good news is we don't have to worry about that |
| 1:16.6 | because there was absolutely nothing new at the VMAs this year. |
| 1:22.1 | Everything was from the 90s. |
| 1:24.0 | It was great. |
| 1:26.5 | It was a true nightmare. Right before we started, I was talking to Todd about how we'd done the Grammys. And, you know, if you've listened to that video and why wouldn't you? We talked about how it was like the best Grammys we'd ever covered. And I thought, this is so nice. We've ushered into a new age. |
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