The 1989 MTV VMAs were a HOT MESS

[@TheRealMightyHokie]

Asking Andrew Dice Clay to perform and then banning him for cursing is like asking Sam kinison to perform and then banning him for yelling. It's pretty much his thing.

[@robotphobia]

Madonna’s performance of “Express Yourself” during the 1989 VMAs is one of the best performances of her career.

[@amberrae8494]

Definitely iconic!

[@daniellekazemzadeh7886]

The only one that tops it is Vogue with the Dangerous Liaisons's coatumes

[@claytonbouldin9381]

Her performance of "Vogue" is up there too.

[@PAZO2FAN]

Vogue was the best

[@pltzgrb]

Express Yourself is a live vocal, Vogue isn’t but is iconic - Donna and Nicky being in both of them makes it equally hard to choose which one I prefer, those 3 together were 🔥🔥🔥

[@VidiocracyAI]

nothing in the 80's was a mess. It's the best decade in human history. The mess is what we have now

[@michelemcintyre9749]

In all honesty, the entire 60's AND 70's generation's will laugh at that. No, these were the best years musically, hands down.

[@RedDawn66]

FYI: Christina Applegate's date that night was a young model named Brad Pitt but she ended up leaving with Sebastian Bach of Skid Row

[@jlrc3991]

Can't blame her!

[@Anniearchy]

"Put Some Sugar on Me???" Um, not so much. Try that Again, Hugo!!

[@breetifulz90]

CAME HERE TO SAY THIS. 😂

[@mm091540]

also "sweet child of mine" and richie samboora...

[@tracieday8661]

😂

[@OthO67]

@@breetifulz90 Me too. 😂

[@hilariecalijo4643]

@@breetifulz90me too

[@youarehere4902]

Sorry to say this but this was a better award show than any of them today lol. At least the singers are really singing.

[@79Bobola]

100 percent agree. The good old days, I want them back.

[@ambermchugh9381]

Not sure Paula was singing but she was dancing her butt off

[@bonniezirpolo3286]

Crazy how 20+ are judging the 80s 😂

[@youarehere4902]

@@bonniezirpolo3286 That's what I'm saying. The 80s man you had to be there to judge it. The 80s was a magical low tech time. Way different time. Yet way better.

[@bonniezirpolo3286]

@@youarehere4902 omg we saw so much growth it's crazy I was psyched when we got call waiting lmao, then 3 way call ohh shit 😅

[@Melriv]

16:46 plz understand that by this time in the 80s Cher had a career for more than 30 yrs. If the jacket smelled like anything it was the blood sweat and tears of a hard working woman in the industry

[@TomHouy]

9:18 "put some sugar on me..." 🤣

[@queenb7013]

It always throws me off everytime you mention that David Fincher was a music video director before he was an iconic film director

[@michaelachatelle]

George Michael was so fine.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

In the 90's he gotten cooler with the 5 o clock shadow,earring, and shades.

[@williamthompson5504]

​@@nehemiahpouncey3607He was NEVER cool. He was a predator.

[@NicolaHeimbecker]

Pour!!!!! POUR!!!!!!!!!!! Not Put!!!! Pour!!!!!!!!

[@nathanz8208]

Cannot believe Like A Prayer didn't win song of the year. Madonna really served with that song it's timeless

[@tararulz76]

You are SO right about Paula Abdul, her first album came out when I was 12 and I played that tape in my Walkman everywhere I went! 😂 Thank you for ANOTHER awesome video ❤ 👏

[@wendyrodger]

MTV was fun and wild back then AND was about music. The VMA’s weren’t supposed to be taken so seriously. Being a hot mess is what made it fun. Btw - I graduated high school in ‘89. 😉 I remember watching this.

[@davidw7]

How in the world can anything be a hotter mess than awards shows and autotuned/pitched corrected acts of only lip-synthe acts.... be said to be more a mess than now? Perhaps it is younger people watching this? I know some boomers as I see the 70s as normal and 80s as out there and more commercialized.... still vs today OMG. I merely am commenting and not watching further this mocking of snap-shots of a far superior era than now no matter how you slice and mock things.....

[@zuzukris4952]

All of this!

[@Flymeonthebreeze]

The MTV Awards was a party aired LIVE. If there were delays probably because the person/people were/was preoccupied with the partying, socializing and the major snowstorm they had to contend with 😂❄️

[@davidw7]

@@Flymeonthebreeze The 1989 MTV awards were in LA.... so traffic was also a big to blame... then.

[@Flymeonthebreeze]

@@davidw7not once was their a reference to LA traffic

[@alicekinn1175]

This is so painful to watch just because this person obviously don't know who theses stars are and why they were so famous. All he's doing looking like an idiot.

[@abalone_soup]

And reporting things that were CLEARLY jokes as serious happenings.

[@MakaylaWilliams-y3c]

What

[@poshbarbieboi]

THIS!

[@Rachel-sv9pq]

I couldn't make it past 2 minutes. Don't do nostalgia videos if you don't understand the cultural references of the time.

[@MakaylaWilliams-y3c]

@@Rachel-sv9pq It's not like you were there

[@luizribeirooo]

Madonna shouldn't have lost a single award. Express Yourself is iconic, legendary. The others are just normal mv. Maybe Smooth Criminal should also be honored by MJ

[@ohlookitsmaria]

There were definitely some issues with the Mtv awards back then, but you have to keep in mind back them Mtv was rebellious. The Mtv awards were not supposed to be super serious and polished like the Grammy's or other more stuffy awards shows. They were messy and we loved it. Honestly, I would love to go back to a time where Mtv actually play music videos and have unpolished award shows.

[@Marc-zi5cq]

The fact they gave more awards to Paula Abdul than Madonna lol thank god the public got to vote and gave Like A Prayer the much deserved award for Viewers Choice.

[@sativaloves]

*hugo* please do a video where you’re reacting to messy celebrity interview moments❤️

[@sativaloves]

It would even fit as a series if you chose interviews all from one year in one video

[@Forever5elena]

Yesss this is such a good idea, especially during the 80s

[@disinfectingwipes]

Madonna has A LOT of that content.

[@79Bobola]

Yessss. That infamous Mariah Carey interview lol

[@maryreilly5092]

It was my era but by the late 80's, the wheels were coming off this award show because everyone was so freaking messed up!

[@dannyaraya8017]

why’d you censor 2 of the 3 Madonna cigarettes? 11:16 watch me twirl, daddy! daddy! no mention of Bobby Brown dropping a bag of cocaine on the stage??

[@79Bobola]

Yeah I was wondering why he was censoring that, seems so dumb.

[@justifyingjade]

Ooooo the little excitey feeling I get when you post one of these from the 80s/90s and early 2000s, I know there are only so many of those - but the format and commentary is brilliant and I hope your channel continues to grow! You deserve it, thank you for another one of these gems! And, ooof remember when these shows actually featured the metal and alt categories? Damn, those were the daaaays!!!!!!!!

[@aliensuperstar3023]

madonna deserved video of the year more than anybody that year 😭😭

[@AlejandroSanchez-z1v]

Evil deserves nothing.

[@jamesearljones3]

Where was Kanye when Paula Abdul beat MJ’s “Smooth Criminal”

[@cessxiii]

Oh shit, somebody who still doesnt know Kanye n Swift was planned?! I can prove it. lol Hint: Swift wins best female video. Kanye makes his legendary move. Later Beyonce wins best video. This means that BY DEFAULT, Beyonce wins best female video, as best video is the best of MEN AND WOMEN lol I can go into further details easily, provable facts, but THAT RIGHT THERE, that starting point, should let you know Kanye West was never wrong on this issue. But? He was in on it ALL. Lemme know if you wanna know more lol

[@rosiemercury111]

@@jamesearljones3 he was 15

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Kanye wasn't even thought about yet.😂

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Kanye who?

[@isabellavalencia8026]

​@@cessxiiiwrong.

[@RedDawn66]

You missed the biggest event that happened that evening. As Tom Petty and Axl Rose were finishing, Vince Neil punched Izzy Stradlin in the face for disrespecting his wife

[@iveyneff7460]

The nuances of celebrity and MTV interactions were top notch throughout the mid 80s and early 90s! Musicians were pushing the envelope of what they would do in rehearsal vs the show, I think. This lead MTV to write off certain genres due to big bands antics at the time Thinking the performance where heavy rock band member climbed scaffolding during a speech and then later Limp Bizkit fans throwing stuff at Carson Daily at the Woodstock revival. Crazy times

[@bullmonty764]

The only problem with going through all of these past VMAs is that there’s only 5 more to cover, thus when you get past 84 there will be a massive gap in this channel’s content 😢

[@raycarter8070]

I was thinking the same thing. It's nice for me to see anything past 95, but I enjoy this channel!

[@MrGencyExit64]

Nothing of significance happened before 1984 anyway.

[@SN20005]

I wouldn’t say there’d be a massive gap in content, bc there are other award shows. & he’s covered the KCA’s, Grammy’s, Oscar’s, Billboard, etc. If he continues making award show videos, I’m sure he’ll cover previous years from those ones specifically.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Don't forget they were also banning rappers from coming in too. Salt and pepa etc had to sit on the sidelines.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

The VMA's were also racist. They wouldn't let rappers in. Michael got in somehow.😂

[@taylakurner]

I've been binging these all weekend. It was nice to relive a lot of these award shows that I remember watching live. They were events! And if you didn't watch it, you were left out of so many conversations the next day at school/work ❤

[@PAZO2FAN]

Smooth Criminal not winning a thing was blasphemy. Living Colour winning multiple awards was awesome though

[@ecdubbs]

Oh yeah… This is the award show when the Bobby Brown dropped that rock out of his pocket. Fresh from the dealer baby. 😂

[@KokomoGreenberg]

Wow that's Daryl Hannah and Niel Young they actually got married like 2018 he left his wife of like 40 years for her

[@1UpJohn]

Yeah! I didn't know they knew each other that far back! I thought it was a recent thing with them!

[@micheleyeo3636]

Thought I was the only one who spotted this!

[@niico76]

I noticed that too!

[@paulanthonygarcia]

I always loved how Julie Brown always had a distain towards Sheena Easton!!! LOL

[@brandi7733]

Me to 😂

[@OsagieGuobadia]

Amazing for you to cover the 1989 MTV VMA's into a hot mess, Hugo. I loved watching all the VMA shows on KZbin. : )

[@MusicHorrorFanatic]

Madonna and George Michael together is the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. 😍

[@penelopephelange]

Madonna's disgusting though lmao 😂

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

I love these 1989 MTV VMAs moments!

[@carlagordon106]

Believe it or not, Andrew Dice Clay significantly cleaned up his standup for the VMAs. That Jack and Jill joke is supposed to end with the tagline "Jill came down with $2.50...that *ucking s*ut"

[@JonathanLeon]

Paula Abdul looks gorgeous!

[@Biofeedback1975]

Sorry not sorry !!! The 1989 MTV music awards were amazing.

[@bayar_]

i remember scanning the '89 vmas wiki before and wtf-ing at not every madonna nomination winning. those vids STILL hold up. like a prayer was not your typical 80s pop album era and this was only the beginning. soon her blond ambition tour and the immaculate collection would propel her into an almost 3 year run of absolute world dominance. not even janet's extremely successful rhythm nation 1814 came close. madonna gave the new decade a much needed fresh direction and identity right before grunge took over in '92 and solidified the 90s as Thee 90s.

[@larynOneka8080]

Madonna was extremely controversial artist.

[@monkee5th]

I must say I have never heard anybody mispronounce so many celebrity names like you did.

[@PAZO2FAN]

right. and POUR some sugar on me, not put.

[@Ag7isheree]

Finally doing the mtv 80s awards been waiting for so long 😭😭

[@saleonard79]

That Bon Jovi performance is what inspired the mtv unplugged series. Its iconic.

[@karmaklutz]

Jon Bon Jovi is a NWO head member, I was shocked 😳

[@mosriteminioncause7741]

Finishing college at the end of 88, then leaving home for a stint south of the border, getting engaged...breaking-up..kicked back across the border and sent home...Got my first Lab. pup...then met the love of my life (my wife, the right girl.) and then the Berlin Wall falls!....All in a year...1989 was a hot mess of transition...not just for MTV but for me and the whole lovin' world!!!

[@soyburglar77]

Paula Abdul pregnant w Tate McRae…huh??? She was born in 2003…and not to Paula Abdul.

[@sidneycage22]

I noticed that. Hell, Paula never even had children soooooo...

[@Brown_Skittle]

Ah the good old days, when life was real

[@Terri1373]

And the music was actually good, well apart from def Leppard 😂

[@Brown_Skittle]

@@Terri1373 😂

[@looneytoastywolf]

Iconic mess! I love it lol Great vid as always man!!

[@p.d.l7023]

Mick Jagger + Living Color were hanging out because Living Color + Stones + G&R = touring together.

[@ldybozz]

Exactly! That's why they were shown thru satellite. I guess he didn't know sometimes some acts were touring & sometimes awards shows would have a live feed. I remember my cousin was at a Madonna concert. She announced they'd be going live on the AMAs for Vogue? Then when it was time Madonna told them they're live.

[@adriannadinwiddie9688]

i’ve been waiting for this one…. TURN IT UP!!!!

[@kkoakey]

When you see LEGENDARY songs , already MASSIVE and classics fight each other !!… so weird to learn the backstory! Thank you for this Hugo!! ❤

[@pryncessAngelica1]

Yikes! So many mispronunciations in this video! You really need to make sure you know how to say people's names and song titles before you do these videos. I'm still trying to figure out how you got Richie SAMBORA's name wrong. Wth?

[@79Bobola]

This comment is so Gen Z, zero tact

[@Keep_it_up_Cutie]

Just you saying “put some sugar on me” earned you another sub!❤😂

[@KibbyRose]

Omg!!! I remember watching this with my friends in Middle School!! We made a HUGE deal about it; girls sleepover & everything!!! Honestly for the time… it didnt disappoint! Lol we ended up talking about it for weeks😂🤣

[@razorramon7573]

Hey Hugo, you forgot to mention where Vince Neil punched out Izzy Stradlin during G'NR and Tom Petty's performance.

[@michelleallen2294]

I make a concerted effort to like all your videos now because I don't get notified even though I've hit the bell. You are my bfs comfort watch. He's a musician and he loves to see the hot messes when he's feeling down! Bonus for me coz I just love a hot mess anytime, it's relatable 24/7 😂

[@galactichand551]

I like this video idea. Everything was so big, colorful and extra in the 80s and it’s nice to get a herstory lesson 💛 In fact, let’s bring back shoulder pads 🤔

[@MLaker221]

How did you not cover Bobbie Brown with the stuff falling out of his pocket? When you put the clip up I thought OH YES, THIS is why it was a "hot mess".

[@audreyplaysnice2086]

this just reminds me of how bad my life was back then. those songs playing thru the early 90s to me are associated with long bus rides to work, poverty conditions and horrible housing situation. At least i could afford a sony walkman i suppose. I did like the fresh prince songs, smooth criminal and guns and roses though.

[@handaladude]

Prince, Michael, Whitney, they took them all from us

[@daniellekazemzadeh7886]

Every time you say "put some sugar on me" i flinch

[@Cyn_The_Vixen]

Paula Abdul really was that girl in the 80s 💅🏿 @ 13:08 Madonna and her background singers was given that Tik Tok video the click!!! 😂

[@starlightrocks7]

Paula was a plant.

[@clairefisher3132]

Michael Hutchence, not Michael Hutchinson

[@audreywilliamson8331]

Thank you!!!!! Sloppy work here.

[@brianumanzor4893]

I love the fact that you investigate and add contextual evidence to everythingggggg my virgo brain is like obsessed with this channel. also could u do 1 hr long videos of literally anything bc you're so funny and it's just amazing

[@ChristChickAutistic]

You didn't mention anything about all the cussing that happened live on air when Guns & Roses accepted the award for the Sweet Child video. They were drunk to the gills and it showed, was hilarious! Never forgot it!

[@SebastianSmith-c5t]

Because it wasn't MTV awards, it was the American Music Awards.

[@ChristChickAutistic]

@@SebastianSmith-c5t Oh damn, my bad! Thanks, you're right, lol! But you gotta admit that was some funny stuff! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 In my defense that was many years and many beers ago.

[@gl3nnium]

But dude, according to all your thumbnails every mtv awards were a hot mess. If they were all the same the word for that is 'normal'. You had be be there to know brother.

[@m.r.6916]

Unbelievable amount of talented people (really talented) being recognized for their skills. Nowadays, singers can't sing and dancers....not too many around. Privileged for being alive in such an explosively creative era.

[@kkoakey]

The fact the you were probably not even born that time! Still you covered it awesomely babe!!🫶🏽

[@ricktaylor5377]

Such a great smile Hugo,keep up the great work

[@austins.2495]

Thank you Hugo for da video 😇

[@christianfranz2686]

I’m so ready for this!

[@leighlavigne4680]

At least they had videos. Artist don't want to spend the money I guess. Now MTV is just ridiculousness all the time.

[@Sebastian-rv1yk]

Im here for The Queen of Pop MADONNA 👑

[@kellytew107]

The year I graduated high school, of course I watched! ❤ It all made sense at the time, lol!! I miss these award shows, everyone really performed! Ty for this!

[@betsybauer7340]

I don’t think you were even a thought yet. This award show was fantastic

[@theaceofspades56]

When heavy metal ruled the world.

[@matthewbudzinski8320]

1989 was the year it died.

[@leaanderson1361]

Uh I think you meant the iconic scene in Uncle Buck when John Candy tells off the principal at his nieces school and walks out of the building to Tone Loc’s wild thing. SMDH.

[@user-wj9xq7ig2v]

Interesting fact Christina Applegate went home with Sebastian Bach of Skid Row that night.

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Great content as always.

[@jaylaalle5827]

back to our regularly scheduled programming.... the hot messes that are the VMAS 🥰

[@REENIExoxo]

I’m pretty sure this video is a hot mess. I’m also pretty sure I’m not the first to make this comment.

[@JonathanLedbetter]

1:10 See, here's my problem with comparing "Express Yourself" to "Born This Way" -- if you listen to the lyrics, their themes are completely different. The former is a woman telling her friend that she and her man both need to tell each other how they feel about each other so that true love can blossom between them. It _became_ an anthem of expression when it was co-opted by LGBTQ+, but that wasn't the song's actual theme. "Born This Way", however, is _only_ about free expression in its lyrics.

[@Bkaas]

Where was Janet Jackson?

[@Marc-zi5cq]

Rhythm Nation was not out when the awards happened, she won awards in 1990 and 1991 i believe.

[@zombalicious81]

At least MTV was about music not like the whatever they do today🤷🏽‍♀️

[@queenb7013]

Can you cover the 2003 Teen Choice Awards, 2002 MTV Movie Awards and 2009 American Music Awards?

[@thejoeyjason]

from 13:17 to 13:30, sure you blurred out the two cigs but you forgot to blur out the one on the right! ICONIC!

[@ImNotHere222]

Hu-gi-oh strikes again with another MESS at the VMAs.

[@JRWeezy84]

Im so glad people r learning celebs r just jesters. Horrible people

[@beverlychills1219]

your bits are getting out of hand because why did i believe you for a whole minute that paula abdul was tate mcrae’s actual mom? 😤 lol i have to have google on hand every time you upload these

[@RocafellaPlaza]

It Feels Reductive.

[@danielmolyneaux2139]

Is this guy trolling? His pronunciation of several names is abysmal.

[@EdgarSoe]

Madonna is like no matter what they do, I am this s'ht owner.

[@thomaspearce8271]

Hahahahaha you said “ put some sugar on me “ hahahaha he he hahah he he …….

[@karmaklutz]

Yeah, its POUR Hugo! Love it though, made me chuckle 🤭

[@karmaklutz]

Yeah it's POUR, Hugo! Love it, it did give me a chuckle

[@Iloveyoho]

Ur videos literally give me life I rewatch them because I love them so much. I need more ! Please can you do the mtv awards where sashca baron cohen landed on Eminem?

[@victoriahernandez8095]

Omg can u make a playlist on KZbin of all the music vids nominated?😍

[@CrissyRed]

Being young and watching this, when it originally aired, the cheese was oozing! Lol, but we loved it!

[@aprilleerose]

Roll with it is such an iconic song!

[@tanyalarose8907]

I was at a friend's house watching this and I had had too many wine coolers that night. lol I remember really drooling over Jon and Richie's acoustic performance.

[@meechie69Official]

BRO ITS JUST MTV AWARDS ..VMA..is a different thing 😂

[@ZsaZsaUmbra]

"Look it up"

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

Those "Oh oh oh" cuts in the filming for Straight Up @11:30 are the same ones In Living Color used when SW1 was backing the dance routines of the Fly Girls.

[@Biddy-vk9di]

“Put” Some Sugar on Me made me snort laugh

[@jaredlange2516]

Yes! Can’t wait to get home to watch this!