The 1991 MTV VMAs were CHAOTIC

I re-watched the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards and I have a lot to say.
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[@jordashi]

Chile Prince had the media in a frenzy about that outfit. Funny thing is the backside was actually covered with a nude colored fabric. So he didn't actually show his butt, but what's funnier is nobody and I mean nobody knew he was going to wear that, not even the band until they were heading to the stage to perform 😂. That man was a menace

[@MissteriousOne]

I miss him! 💜

[@rrsaga]

Butt out jeans on in living color with Jamie Foxx. Hilarious

[@bradpity]

the world has been much more dull without Prince

[@raycarter8070]

I know it was a big deal for the next few years lol.

[@tracyfontsere6388]

The same technique used in the 80's movie Stuck On You for the pants in the film

[@Nopadope]

That Prince suit was everything…I was 7 and it has lived rent free in my head for 33 years

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Ok 😂

[@Nopadope]

@@MsDisneylandlover Disney lover, hahahahaha, enough said

[@dawnieb.7394]

@@MsDisneylandlover laughing about the hotness of Prince? Girl, bye.

[@mitch7503]

Haha me too. I was 9.

[@IloveRA74]

The memory was safely buried away... Thanks for unearthing it

[@cityboy2092]

This award show marked the end of a certain era of pop music that would be virtually non-existent come the following year's VMA's. After Nirvana, Dr. Dre, and Mary J. Blige exploded onto the scene within that 12-month-span, the superstars of yesteryear vanished almost overnight and the era of jock jam dance music, family-friendly pop-rap, synthy adult contemporary pop ballads, and quirky-yet-not-edgy alternative rock was thrown in the garbage in favor of grunge, gangsta rap, and sexy R&B jams. Mariah was able to adapt, but the rest of that late 80's/early 90's crew of superstars wouldn't be so lucky

[@AS1999AS9]

Prince?

[@audramcdonaldapologist3676]

you forgot hair bands

[@reallyretro]

You got that right. The following year would be like night and day with the 1992 show. Basically this 1991 show felt like remnants of the 80's trying to hang on for dear life, but clearly the 90's were starting to take shape and form.

[@laurisaarinen1126]

Jane's Addiction winning that award was foreshadowing for all that

[@jordashi]

​@@AS1999AS9I mean between his battle with warner and the public becoming more disinterested in his music, Prince in the 90s was at his most creative but his lowest commercially and sometimes critically.

[@juzkiddin]

The AIDS epidemic was crazy. When I was in 5th or 6th grade, we had to make shirts with our own safe sex logo on it, and it was for grades. Mine said, 'A Tisket A Tasket A Condom Or A Casket' and it had a casket and whatever other designs I could bubble paint on. It's def cringe, but also, we were actually taught sex ed and safe sex back then. Given the surge in stds lately, it worked and is still needed.

[@bradpity]

as someone who is hugo’s age, but living in the states: when they taught us sex ed, it was in 6th and 7th grade. in 6th grade, they taught us a bit about our bodies and what to expect from getting a period. in 7th grade, it was all about scaring us into abstinence. education about sex and safe sex didn’t happen, and as far as i understand, it’s kinda stayed that way. that was over 10 years ago. 😢

[@juzkiddin]

@bradpity Unfortunately, it shows in the younger generations. Our parents never seem to want to do it properly and leave it up to schools because that's how they learned, but don't realize that it's not taught anymore, really at all. Now we have people running around not knowing the first thing about sex or how bodies and diseases work. There's been another burst of STDs, teen parents and child abuse because most teens don't have the patience for an infant and move through boyfriends who don't care or want a kid. Scary.

[@IloveRA74]

It's so weird to me that people under 25 basically don't even know about AIDS. I started learning about it in 3rd grade

[@juzkiddin]

@IloveRA74 I have a feeling we're going to see a resurgence in the next few years the way some of the younger people are bragging about bodies.

[@shiannafoxx]

@@juzkiddin I have a friend of a friend who lets random guys hit it raw, takes no precautions whatsoever and doesn't take STDs seriously, has friends of their own that have STDs who also don't care, and meets up with strangers from other cities to fuck. There's def going to be a resurgence. Esp since you have schools and lawmakers who are now BANNING talk about safe sex and sexual education

[@kapowjam3462]

A taco costing less than a call to vote is so accurate.

[@aobasuzukaze1032]

The 90s is when brands are beefing each other

[@cushe83]

I’m old enough to remember when Paula did that performance the media tormented her about her weight saying she looked “ fat”

[@hugohenderson]

Omg that’s so mean 😢

[@notamberp]

the delusion is crazy!

[@kristinazubic9669]

When they aired it again a couple months later they CUT HER SONG OUT

[@Nostalgic90s765]

Yeah, I remember that as well.

[@MrKarmapolice97]

Yeah i remember that, she dated Arsenio Hall also

[@bees.857]

When i got this notification, I left the movie I was watching and immediately came here. Edit: I'm a dumbass, I was 12 in '91. Still great.

[@BrittanyGregory-5xMama]

I did too! 😂

[@DixyChickens]

Too bad it’s 1991.

[@bees.857]

@@DixyChickens OMG. Dammit lol thank you, I fixed it. See how fast I came here, didn't even pay attention.

[@DixyChickens]

⁠@@bees.857I blame the dumbasses who thumbed you up and that Brittany girl who went as far as to even reply without checking you

[@RocafellaPlaza]

'12+'91='03 24-03=21 This Person is 21 yrs old. How did they watch this LIVE in '91?

[@davidpatterson555]

I freakin’ absolutely love Prince! The only man who wears heels, eye liner and ruffles and still take your girl.

[@allye9865]

Love that Van Halen was like "preachers do worse" than Paul Reuben did looool

[@MynameisDUmass]

Oof

[@Morgpen-fp1yo]

I was 13 and that was the first year we had cable. I was all over this... 😂 Thank you for the memories

[@izzydeadyet7336]

Sounds like my parents! We were last to cable, microwaves and they only recently got wifi my dad is still too afraid to use

[@tracyfontsere6388]

I was 18 when this aired. Wonderful nostalgia!!! I would like to respectfully note that Paul Reubens was cleared of all charges in the second scandal. He was a lovely person who brought joy to many. May he rest.

[@MySkinnydip]

Things looked so fun and easy back then! I wish it were still like that. These times really suck. Nobody is happy and the future does not look bright!

[@dawnieb.7394]

They really were. 🥲

[@MLaker221]

You do such a fantastic job going thru clip by clip and making sure we soak in the moments. This is some of my favorite kinds of KZbin entertainment bc I soak in so much retro. The only thing I don't get that you do is that in your screengrabs you always look like you're annoyed or appauled by the awards show... but when I watch it-- you're smiling and having fun and truly enjoying it. Not everything is a hot mess! LOL 😂

[@TheGreatD_Mize]

91 was an interesting time. It was sort of a nexus where the old sounds and styles of the 80's overlapped with the new sounds and styles of the 90's. I went to school one day with a head full of 80's hair metal cliches, and came home to the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit. The new sounds came in like a thief in the night, and suddenly none of the stuff I had listened to as a younger kid mattered anymore. It seemed to happen literally overnight. I didn't know I was witnessing a sea change in the music industry at the time, but looking back I'm kind of happy that I got to see it.

[@pensiveczar2239]

The first half of 1991 still carried that sprightly 1988-1990 vibe. However, around September and into the fall-marked by the emergence of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Naughty By Nature's "O.P.P."-the mood suddenly flipped, and the year began to hint at what was to come. 1992 was a weird year. Oddly transitional and uncertain of its identity. It wasn’t the 80s anymore, but it also hadn’t fully embraced the 90s. It felt like it had a split personality, with remnants of the late 80s clashing against elements that would fully form by the mid-90s, almost causing both extremes to cancel each other out. 1993 marked the first year that truly captured the essence of the 1990s.

[@izzydeadyet7336]

Yes! And we're still waiting for hand written and sung music to return! All the "grunge/alternative" bands if today are underground

[@Merdle]

I am a year older. What luck we had ; )

[@bafbaas1210]

Fun fact: Mariah hit her highest note ever sung live (though not fully verified) here. At the end those short high notes reach G#7 (some say she hit Bb7 and highest non sung is F#8). Some other known highest notes sung live to compare: Whitney did Bb6 (an octave lower), celine Eb6, Aretha E6, Patti labelle F6, Ariana C7 (she sorta hit up to Eb7), Gaga B5, Taylor G5, Chaka C6 (highest i've heard), Jennifer hudson C6, Kelly Clarkson C7, Pink D6, Normani Eb7, Minnie riperton F#7, Adele A5, Beyonce F6, Diana Ross B5, Christina A6, Lisa Fisher G6, Barbra D6, Britbrit A5?, Katy Eb6, Miley e6 etc. Not saying she's better just to show how impressive this was

[@codenamekendall2780]

I love how everyone knew how stupid pee wee's arrest was!

[@intothemystic5223]

They should've had Pee-wee announce the nominees for best group video so he'd have to read out "I Touch Myself" 😂

[@trustnoone3007]

Heard any good jokes lately……👀👂

[@gabrielfrost9134]

You replied to one 🙄 @trustnoone3007

[@michaelenglish1992]

These awards were intentionally messy. They thought it was cool to be anti-awards. I remember we watched to laugh AT the show. Prince is a legend. Criminal that Dee-Lite didn't win anything. That video was a phenom that year. You're funny.

[@dannyinoakpark9095]

Losing My Religion killed the game that night What a year

[@coolybell123]

One could argue that Michaels tshirts are even MORE relevant today.... so fucking sad. sidenote, hugo, babe, i love these award show vids so much! been subbed a while, so awesome to see you coming up!!

[@nbunnysnowboard]

I was born in 1991- when you said 33 years later it hit me like a ton of bricks lol I feel so old

[@trustnoone3007]

If you’re old, then I’m a grandpa….

[@silveryote1]

Same

[@karikoenig2473]

C. C. was pissed at the band, so he dyed his hair pink and PURPOSELY started playing a different song. The one he wanted. Bret was so pissed him and C.C. got into a fist fight about it and C.C. was out of the band after that.

[@karikoenig2473]

I was 21 and fully entrenched in the rock scene, so I'm full of useless knowledge. Lol

[@bees.857]

CC was so petty 😂 and rock band lore is amazing

[@benamisai-kham5892]

I'm glad he was back by the time I saw them for my first concert in 2001, I can only imagine watching it go down in real time (along with other shenanigans from the 90s) 😂

[@baylorsailor]

Well that would explain why he got fired

[@Rochelle1985]

Thank God it didn't last, lol.

[@timothysmith294]

bestie deserves about 960k more subs

[@hugohenderson]

Well, YES!!

[@karmakuntz]

@@hugohenderson all good things take time. Patience, young grasshopper 🦗

[@yoshiislandresident]

I can't be the only one who burst out laughing when he pronounced Cher's name like that 🤣🤣🤣 23:47

[@--s--]

i think you meant 25:41 😂

[@duckimpala]

love that u’re covering the 90s, as a fan of the grunge scene!!!

[@leticiabenjam2]

I love your VMA’s videos, your comments always made me laugh 😂

[@thelunarlaugh2415]

Zelma really sang on this live performance of "Gonna Make You Sweat" which is why she thanks MTV for showing that she can sing in her speech. That's why it doesn't sound anything like the record. She *did* lip-sync to Martha's vocals in the music video, however.

[@bullmonty764]

I find it hilarious how the pop music scene of the early 90s gave Rob, Fab, and Zelda so much shit for lip-syncing to other people’s voices…only to turn around and embrace Eurodance for a time despite Eurodance having just as, if not *more,* blatant lip-syncing as the people they had just shamed into obscurity. Yes, I know there was Mariah, Boyz II Men, and All-4-One, but those artists were more R&B than pop. I’m referring to the pure, unadulterated pop music that Eurodance was obviously a part of. A bit of hypocrisy in the 90s pop industry, that’s all I’m saying

[@jordashi]

​@@bullmonty764and let's not get into Jennifer Lopez

[@louismurphy799]

Best MTv awards show Ever!! Prince's performance was Funk perfection! I loved LL COOL J & even heafty Paula Abdul did a great rendition of vibeology

[@LuvOneAnother]

OH MY! That #PRINCE outfit was pure perfection and so ahead of its time. Plus, he sang and danced LIVE. his Mic was on and his heals were too! #Prince is the GOAT.

[@waffletoast215]

If you think what Pepsi got away with trashing coke in their ads was a lot. You should see the ads Sega put out in the same era lol

[@deadsirius3531]

It was an Xtreme time, and you had to be Xtreme to survive. Sega was indeed the most Xtreme of the Xtreme

[@P0YSiN]

I was only 1 for this one, but I love seeing a time capsule of 1991 like this!

[@sofia7374]

I graduated from high school in 91, so this gives me so much nostalgia 💖

[@cshaw6023]

Same!

[@pastelgothine420]

That's pretty cool, ik my parents graduated in 92 and i love learning information from before I was born

[@angel204bby]

How old is Hugo himself? I love how younger and older generations can enjoy this channel alike

[@Rochelle1985]

Hugo was born in 1998 (he mentions it in his 1998 VMA video). 13 years younger than myself, lol.

[@raycarter8070]

Oh my god lol! That's cool though. Love his enthusiam!

[@reneewatters7182]

CC DeVille was screwing up the Poison performance on purpose because he was fighting with the band. He got fired and replaced soon after this. Then their new guitarist slept with the drummer's fiancee, then eventually CC came back.

[@britt01]

Tommy Mottola was the president of CBS. Sony bought CBS and then it became Sony Columbia.

[@erikkibler3466]

Also allegedly a murderer

[@squidthing]

I hope you eventually get to 1984 VMAs with Madonna. I love these recaps!

[@MirrorRiker]

Man i miss the 90s

[@MsDisneylandlover]

The music, fashion, and tv

[@EDT3270]

God…I’m so old that I actually watched this when it aired 😫

[@kristinazubic9669]

Me too, it was the first one I ever paid attention to

[@dawnieb.7394]

Me3! But I'm not old. 90 is old!

[@doobette5554]

I was 13 and I remember watching, too.

[@travishunterbrown]

Thank you for doing this!! This is such a nostalgic pop culture moment from my childhood!!

[@cleverlydevisedmyth]

I kind of miss how different brands "dissed" each other back in the 90s. Jack-in-the-box did a commercial where the Taco Bell chihuahua is onscreen and Jack asks "OK, who's been eating beans?" and the dog looks all embarrassed. LOL

[@bullmonty764]

God, I was missing these videos. Thanks so much babe 👍

[@Noeifx]

Freddie Mercury passes from AIDS that year too

[@darkinetix]

8:42 while true, that’s def not Martha Wash’s voice, so the mic is actually on there. Martha’s voice has a lot more power and rasp to it. Exactly why the other lady was so eager to prove she could sing, but she’ll never by Martha.

[@PhotoSynthesis-uj8og]

The MTV award show recaps are my favourite! Thanks for making this Hugo.❤ Can you please do MTV awards 1985 with Eddie Murphy hosting?

[@TheMH1001]

Madonna chose to lip synch because the song was already well known. She also didn't want to hold a wired microphone 🎤 because of the choreography and with three mics needed the chances of getting tangled was high. In addition, the wireless headset were not perfected yet an interference was likely or it just would stop working intermittently. Madonna felt the performance was more important than a vocal plus with the time period in which they were performing didn't have that technology plus inclusion of the hand fans.

[@mariahboo92894]

Hugo never misses with the commentary. I legitimately laugh out LOUD every video.

[@shianaperez1028]

Ive rewatched all the award show recap videos over and over and was not expecting a new one today!!! What an amazing surprise, thank you!!!!!❤❤❤

[@buckguy17]

I was 10 years old and I remember watching everything and Micheal Stype taking off all of his shirts to reveal whatever. But this was the golden age of MTV before it became trash.

[@FML_85]

Thanks for this. Today had been a rough one - this helped!

[@Ernie1978]

The "mess-incoming" bit is at 9:53 . . . I love that bit on these videos!!

[@PowerRangersFanAntiDinoFury]

Before i actually watch this video did prince actually go to the award show looking like that? Because if he did then that could explain his hate for Justin Timberlake and his song sexyback lol. I'll always remember his quote, "you're bringing sexy back? It never left" 🤣

[@ashleydunning7899]

I get so excited everytime you cover a new awards show! Yayyy!😁

[@samuelguler]

I always loved this Paula Abdul performance. I didn't care the press tore her apart i knew they were full of it. Looking back she was ahead of her time.

[@JeremyJoseph]

Overall Arsenio did a good job as a host, at least I think he was less chaotic lol 😂

[@mafeuk]

Yeah but he already hosted from 1988 to 1990, so he had a little bit more experience

[@dawnieb.7394]

Arsenio was great. He was funny, smart, and he actually enjoyed the music and the artists, which makes for a much better host.

[@talkingfiction8748]

Technically Arsenio wasn't wrong about Tommy Motorolla. Sony Music was known as CBS Records originally up until the year before this awards show.

[@bradpity]

tommy motorola 😭😭😭

[@PrinceMontrey]

23:23 SING BOY! Also: So glad Janet beat out Amy, Paula, and Madonna!! Well deserved! ❤

[@Rochelle1985]

Love these, thank you Hugo!! Music was the best in the 90's!! 💯 Also: it's a literal crime that Mariah Carey's been snubbed so much by the VMAs. Only having performed TWICE in the 30+ year career she's had?? Around 20 #1 singles?? And never once WON a VMA and not even nominated anywhere near as much as she should've been. I just can't, lol.

[@baylorsailor]

The hair twirl is definitely a Valley Girl thing

[@nicholefontaine9299]

in the 90s Pepsi stayed going after coke in ads and Coke was very unbothered

[@jordashi]

Trust they were very bothered

[@dawnieb.7394]

@@jordashi only until Pepsi set Michael Jackson's hair on fire.

[@Nopadope]

That Carol Radziwel shade was savage 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@PaisleyTimez]

I watched this live. The most exciting part of the show was Gett Off. RIP.

[@raymondgeurds9413]

You're absolutely right that Zelma didn't sing the original vocals on Everybody dance now. But on the night she didn't lip sync... Those are her vocals, just have another listen

[@ZyxthePest]

Yeah, I was gonna say, controversy aside, that's her.

[@brandonvaughn3139]

It was called CBS records at the time. I think that’s why Arsenio said that!

[@OsagieGuobadia]

I was also not born in 1991, but 1998. THE VMAS of 1991 were a hot mess alright. Thanks, Hugo. : )

[@love1sky]

Woohoo I was 13 good times! Love the 90s!!! MTV was the best back then!!!!!

[@juliagoolia5604]

Love that the clips are all old looking too like on a vhs! Lol

[@ticoangelo]

First one i am "too young" to remember. It's gonna be wild!!! Thank you, Hugo!

[@itsturt]

I can't believe Chris Isaak and Kyle MacLachlan would lie to America like that 😩

[@pendafen7405]

27:14 Cindy Crawford can have a free pop at Prince if she wants. He once wrote the unflattering and fairly creepy song 'Cindy C.' about her, without her say-so or prior knowledge--a song that's hard to find on streaming now, because it was on Prince's redacted rare 'Black Album' and no other record.

[@jtizzle1017]

May I suggest the 2001 American Music Awards. Hosted by Britney Spears and LLCoolJ and featured all the turn of the century pop legends. I think you can do justice to it.

[@JonathanLedbetter]

7:04 You actually have to go back about 100 years to see Coke doing a hell of a lot more than trash-talk Pepsi. They actually tried to get Pepsi shut down, but didn't prevail in any lawsuits. (Coke is still superior to Pepsi though.)

[@monkeytimestamps4915]

18:16 speakerphone ≠ megaphone. Love the channel and the your extreme attention to detail while watching these VMAs

[@carrieorsel1340]

I don't remember if I actually watched this Mtv Awards show...but it is all "relevant " to me. I get every reference. Yes, I am THAT OLD

[@johnsimpson8974]

Oh snap a new video, sweet!

[@txwtw]

“Do you remember _______? Well I wasn’t born yet, but I watched it.” So me fr fr

[@juliagoolia5604]

Yay!! 🎉 I was missing your channel!!

[@pendafen7405]

7:15 Christian Slater is such a boring closet case. And he battered and pushed a woman down some stairs once. He's been in some fantastic films and was admittedly good in them, but he's a piece of work and people don't remember that well enough.

[@cuginoeddie8677]

A few days after this aired marked the most epic month in music history. Metallica’s black album, the long awaited GNR use your illusions double set and Nirvanas Nermind were all released. Metallica, AC/DC, black crows and Pantera would also perform in front of 1.6 million people in Moscow which marked the end if the Cold War.

[@SiReTV8929]

DAMN Taco Bell!!!! 59¢ for a taco. Oh, how I miss the 90's FRFR. I currently work at Taco Bell and a taco is now $2.19!!!

[@DelilaSloan]

That cheaper then they are where I live. A soft taco is 2.89 and the hard tacos are 2.99, and the last time we stopped there for tacos they were all lettuce so we just stopped getting the tacos.

[@jasonmay6368]

In 1991 federal minimum wage was $3 an hour less than it is now.

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

I love these 1991 MTV VMAs moments!

[@numba2bvi]

I was 15 yrs old. Remember watching this live man those were some fun days guess mainly bc i was a teenager but all the artists back seemed so genuine and the music fun and exciting

[@MarkMoergen]

A Valerie Cherish nod!!! I just subscribed! “I DO need to see that”!!!!

[@jasonjackson4555]

I was about 12 when this aired. We taped it and I *know* I watched this about 100 times so I remember all of the quirks 😅 This is the VMA I hold most dearly in my memories.

[@ItsMeRyanWhite]

I'm a big Martha Wash fan.... Zelma did lipsync to Martha's vocals on the music video for Gonna Make You Sweat but she is singing live with her own voice here on the MTV Awards.

[@davidhattonmusic]

C.C Deville stepped on his guitar chord. That’s how it came unplugged. He didn’t mean to do it. 😂😂

[@carolyn7367]

yeah, and the first chord was a C sharp, not a D lol

[@bendelosangeles3560]

I spit my drink out when you made that Carole Razwell comment!

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Great content as always.

[@laurisaarinen1126]

I was there to watch the 2002 show, this one was a year before i was born... But i know it from the legendary performance by Prince. It was an interesting point in time. Jane's Addiction broke up just when alternative rock was about to take over, they could have been huge... grunge was right around the corner and the era of hair bands was truly over. Metal got heavier and rap got more serious. C&C Music Factory winning that many awards is ridiculous though...

[@JayApollo106]

I'm not sure if you'll see this, but you slightly mixed up a fact - Yes, Martha Wash does indeed sing on the studio version of "Gonna Make You Sweat." However, Zelma is actually singing during this live performance (hence her "thank you for showing people I can sing" comment).

[@annrodriguez2891]

Thank you Hugo❤33 years ago ...and Poison was so funny

[@dougmiller3398]

Great year to be 14! What a time man. Oct 91 got my first French kiss/kiss period while walking in the park together with all the foliage falling around us while my dog sat at our feet. Yup! Just had a moment.

[@izzydeadyet7336]

Aw nice! I'll never remember the year or date of such firsts in my life

[@brianhopson2072]

7:07 coke and pepsi always had commercials about their competition before everyone and everything got wrapped in laws and legalities to where you can barely do anything, like a friendly public rivalry between two soda brands. Another nostolgia review of a bunch of "who cares" responses from me and gratefulness to grow up in this era and not the baptist grandmother climate of young people today. Including this guy.

[@juks23]

the meghan trainor SHADEEEEE you make me giggle!!!

[@ABeautfulMess]

I graduated in 1986..MTV was awesome

[@dalemcmillen5065]

I remember this particular email, I was 12 at the time. Thank you for recognizing Eddie Van Halen. You're very respectful and pleasant. Then, there's Poison, oh God that was CRAZY, myfriends talked bout them for weeks afterwards

[@Cadeho3]

I miss the music from this time... so many great songs

[@ryangaffneysguitarphilosop732]

I love these! Any plans to do the MTV Movie Awards?

[@bfnfamily]

American award shows were way more excited in the '90s and '00s.

[@tpbarbie]

Dee-Lite and The Divinyls deserved some love that night. I hate it when the same band wins the bulk of the awards.

[@musicnerd72]

Especially super highly overrated acts like R.E.M. and C&C Music Factory. I couldn't stand either one. Deee-Lite deserved something at least. On the other hand, I was happy to see Prince and, even though she wasn't there, Janet Jackson winning a award.