Do you get it?

I had never felt so dumb or outdated until last week when I sat with 4teen to watch the MTV awards on TV. Yes, this year was my first time, because we never had cable until a few months ago. 4teens always went to the grandparents and friends to watch it, but I was not privileged enough to do so. Actually, after watching the last one, I am not quite sure if I was that underprivileged!

I do not want to talk about the rude host that I found everything about him tasteless until he started to calling our president names and I started hating him. I am an advocate of free speech, but I believe that calling each other names does not fall into that category and it was not funny at all, but that is a whole new story, or maybe the beginning of this one.

I may not know much about the new singers and the rappers, but I still enjoy good music and fancy clothes that the entertainers wear. I loved Rhianna's performance and her outfit, I loved Mariah Carey, Chris Brown and even Christina Aguillera. I am not amused by LiLo's or Brittany's life styles, but still want to see what they wore or what they said, and the same for many other performers. Yet after all this being said, I was shocked by the way that a few of them were dressed.

Who was that middle aged guy who showed up in his red striped boxers and white beaters? And then was that his wife or his girlfriend with a bedroom gown? Or the one who was dressed like a Joker in a deck of poorly designed playing card? What about the Lil something whose pants were so low that they were practically folded on the floor and you could see the bottom of the boxers along with the top. How the XXXX did he walk in those pants and moved on that stage? Worse yet, how does our teenage generation can adopt such an ugly fashion trend? Showing a bit of the elastic on the underwear is ugly, yet more tolerable than what this guy was showing which was honestly disgusting. And the words of some of the songs?? I guess I am lucky that my slang language is very poor, because I did not like some of the words that I heard.

4teen tells me this is the new art, and I do not understand how can things this ugly be art. How can cussing and foul language be classified as art? 4teen tells me that this fashion trend is a kind of statement, but fails to explain what kind of statement, what are they telling us? 4teen tells me that I am too old for this, and that is the first thing that has made sense to me since last week. I really don't get it.