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These Are Not Your Father's MTV Music Video Awards

The MTV-VH1 Music Video Awards were tonight. They sure have changed.

Madonna, looking relaxed, calm and very pretty, opened the show with a quiet and actually quite moving speech in tribute to Michael Jackson. After noting they were born the same year, she mentioned she lost her mother when she was a young girl. But she says Michael he got the short end of the stick: She lost a mother, he lost a childhood. She also talked about how "we" abandoned him, how while he was trying to raise a family, "we all sat in judgment of him." "There will never be anyone else like him again. He was a king." She says she's going to end on a positive note. "Michael Jackson was a human being but he was the King. Long live the King."

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