This past sunday myself and photographer Alejandro Santiago had the opportunity to attend vanilla teen Mecca, "The MuchMusic Video Awards." Being two adult men, we were quite lost as to who was a celeb and who was just a member of the Bell Media elite. Being an event that only seemed to celebrate celebrity, this was a definite handicap.
This confusion was compounded by the fact that we were delegated to the press room and back corridors of the MuchMusic establishment, unable to see the show and judge relative popularity levels by the adolescent screams. We were reserved to making glib comments in the back row, our humour based in the fact that we were too cool or simply too old to recognize most of the faces we encountered. It was actually kind of fun being ignorant of the who's who — like everyone else could see ghosts but I couldn't and thus was not afraid. Plus there was free beer!
I can say with certainty that I almost stepped on the toe of the guy with the "hair" from Billy Talent. It wasn't intentional, he seemed quite nice. I also had the opportunity to ask the bearded man who plays the teen wolf in Teen Wolf and Avril Lavigne a question. I declined due to lack of curiosity. But hopefully, your time spent stargazing over the following slideshow is more fruitful than my own vague celeb experience. I hope they get the Muppets next year, because I love those guys and they are easy to spot.
Check out our slideshow for a visual recap of the red carpet festivities.