AMA's: The good, bad and the ugly

Last night, musicians flocked to the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles for the American Music Awards. It was a night that could easily be forgotten like all AMA's.

Best Performance

Hands down Katy Perry. Any time she performs without back tracking is a highlight of an award show. Perry performed an acoustic version of her new single "The One That Got Away" with her pink guitar that matched her pink dress and pink Bruno Mars-styled hairdo. She sang and played a song. That's rare. She even won a special award for the first female to have five number one songs on a record.

See what happens when you sing and play an instrument? Good karma follows you.

Worse Performance

Nicki Minaj.

Hon, we can all get up on a stage and sing over ourselves. The only thing that separates you from us is that you can't paid millions of dollars to do it. The award show kicked off with Minaj in Gaga-esque attire--instead of a sparkling bra, she had sparkling butt cheeks. Very original. Very Gaga. The infamous backtrack made its first apperances last night just three seconds into the show where Minaj failed to sing. Instead, she sang over her own track and chose to sing only half of her songs.

Because it's extremely hard to sing a chorus. So hard that you need a backtrack as you stand up there dancing to it.


Longest time for someone to accept an award

Nick Minaj.

The lip syncer took a good minute to walk from backstage to the center of the stage to accept her award for Rap/Hip Hop artist. She slowly scuttled her way in a emerald green dress, extremely high heels and an escort attached to her arm. If that show delayed the networks next scheduled program, it was because of Nicki Minaj.

The awkward moment when...

Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera are forced to sing together.

The two singers don't like each other, to say the least, from working on "The Voice" together. They mustered up the courage to sing their song "Moves Like Jagger" with each not sending awkward tension into the air so strong, viewers at home could feel it.

People too good for the award show

Country band The Band Perry and Kelly Clarkson.

Clarkson basically flipped the bird when she hired The Newsies to announce all the "scandal" the press has given her (if she's gay or straight, if her album is pop or country). She sang her new single "Mr. Know It All" in 40s-styled attire and set.  And then The Band Perry sang their smash hit "If I Die Young," receiving a standing ovation from the crowd. This could either be the result of two things 1) They were just plain amazing. 2) They came after Justin Beiber's snoozefest performance of "Mistletoe."

The other awkward moment when...

LMFAO closed the show by singing "Party Rock Anthem/ I'm Sexy and I know It," ripping off their pants to reveal their smiley faced underwear. It was decent and fun, but then everything was ruined when Bieber made another apperances by running on stage and dancing. If that was awkward, well, leave it to David Hasselhoff to take off his pants.

Only in Germany can you pull that off Hoff.

Night's Biggest Winners

Good, bad or ugly, Taylor Swift, Adele and everyone's favorite drunken lip syncer Nicki Minaj won big. Continuing her winning streak, Swift won Country Female Artist, Country Album and the night's highest honor, Artist of the Year. Unfortunately, Adele wasn't able to accept her awards for Pop/Rock Artist, Adult Contemporary Artist and Pop/Rock album on an account that she's recovery from throat surgery. And Minaj, barely sober during the whole show, won Rap/Hip Hop Artist and Rap/Hip Hop Album.