The Youth View awards is one of Jamaica’s premiere award shows whose aim is to give a voice to teens and young adults in selecting who they consider the best in the entertainment industry at the moment. This vision has seen the continuity of the show over the years among the ‘Young Hot and Hype’ and cementing its place in the entertainment industry. It has been a week since the recently held Youth View Awards and it must be said, that the thoughts still lingers. Follow me as I go through the memorable moments of the show.
Opening Performance: It was a great start to the show with an opening performance by W.T.F (Wayne, Tifa and Fambo) Performing their smash hit ‘Swaggin’.
Winners of the Night: Tifa, Vybz Kartel and Popcaan scored big among the teens who allowed them to walk off with the majority of the night’s awards and I must say all were well deserved.
Disappointment of the night: The crowd’s reaction to the result of the Male fashion icon category and their reaction during the announcement of the Female Fashion icon. Dexter Pottinger won the award for Male fashion icon of 2011 and went to collect his award amidst loud boos and cheers. I’m unsure as to why he was booed, because it was a well deserved win. Was it just a case of them thinking fellow nominees like Beenie Man or Ding Dong deserved it more? Hhmmm, but, the award went to the right person. On the flipside, during the announcement of the nominees for the female fashion icon, the performer who represented D’Angel was also booed, and once again, I’m lost as to why this happened. Was it that they thought the performer didn’t represent the artist appropriately? This I could understand.
Best performance of the night: The best performance of the night goes to Ikaya and her tribute to Bob Marley. It was simply a breathtaking performance that I can say every Marley fan would appreciate. The performance had me washed with goose bumps from start to finish.
Another great performance was from Shauna Williams, she showed why and how she won the ‘On the Verge’ talent competition with her rendition of Adele’s ‘Set fire to the rain’. Great vocals, great performance… it was flawless.
Closing performance: The Youth View Awards came to an end with a thrilling performance from Popcaan which had the crowd on their feet as he performed some of his current hits. It was a great way to finish the night.
Bloopers! : I felt bad for Mystic. She won the award for favorite female dancer and took forever to go up to collect her award as they called her name, eventually thinking she was absent from the event. When she finally did show up and collect her award, before she could say “Than...”she was abruptly cut off.
Christopher Byfield, I had to laugh when he meant to say “Presenter” but somehow “Presetta” came out. What happened there? Lol
Etana, she’s one of my favorite artiste, but I had to laugh when she was to present an award and actually dropped the award upon entering the stage, the crowd thought she broke it, luckily, she didn’t.
Worth mentioning: WORL BOSS! I was happy to see that Vybz Kartel with his recent troubles with the law, managed to take home two big awards for the night. Well, the ‘girl boss’ MILK had to collect them on his behalf, a move that was well received by the crowd.
Comfort Fedoke from America’s hit show ‘So you think you can dance’ did a pretty good job with their dance routine. I should say that all dance crews and their performances were pretty good for the night.
Overall, I’d give the YVA’s a 7/10 rating. To go with the number of highs for the nights, there were quite a number of lows. Minor technical difficulties at the start wrecked havoc on the show, thus not making the ‘highs’ consistent, but the great performances of the night surely made up for it in the end. With all that, I surely do look forward to the next staging in 2013. See you there.
Scenes from the YVA's
