
Macklemore at KeyArena, March, 2013 (Erika Schultz)
Seattle rapper Macklemore and his sidekick Ryan Lewis picked up yet another award Sunday. Here’s the L.A. Times account of the ceremony.
Meredith Blake
The Los Angeles Times
As the first YouTube Music Awards came to a close Sunday night, creative director Spike Jonze thanked the powers that be at the video-sharing website for “letting us make this mess.”
He couldn’t have chosen a more apt word.
The inaugural 90-minute webcast, held in New York City and hosted by actor Jason Schwartzman and Seattle-bred comedian Reggie Watts, was conceived as a more spontaneous answer to the Grammys or the Video Music Awards, one in keeping with the anarchic spirit of the Internet.
But the show, which featured a smattering of performances by mainstream pop stars as well as homegrown YouTube celebrities, was broadcast from Pier 36 in downtown Manhattan and often seemed not just free-wheeling but unhinged.
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