Maroon 5 probably won’t be performing at the VMAs anytime soon.
Singer Adam Levine trashed the MTV awards show last night on Twitter, calling the whole thing “utterly horrible.” To punctuate his point, the frontman and “Voice” mentor made a hashtag out of “Holy f—.”
Here’s that damning tweet:
It's always exciting to see how utterly horrible the VMAs will be. They really delivered so far this year. #HOLYFUCK
— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) August 28, 2017
Levine’s beef stemmed from the production cutting off Best New Artist Julia Michaels mid-song and throwing to commercial. The “Moves Like Jagger” singer also didn’t think much of Lorde’s, um, performance.
Here’s that summation, in Levine’s own words:
Julia Michaels gets cut off while she's singing and Lorde gets to NOT sing her whole song
— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) August 28, 2017
Watch the video above to see how Michaels’ full performance of “Issues” actually went for those in attendance, and without MTV’s apparent technical issues getting in the way. TheWrap reached out to the Viacom cable channel for comment on exactly what happened with the TV feed, though we did not immediately hear back.
As for Lorde, well, she’s got an excuse for last night’s bizarre display. The singer said she was suffering from the flu yesterday, though that didn’t stop her from dancing terribly to “Dynamite.”
Watch that here, and note her own tweet below.
https://twitter.com/lorde/status/901951101842235392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.com%2Fblogs%2Fbrowbeat%2F2017%2F08%2F27%2Florde_dances_to_dynamite_at_the_2017_vmas.html