MUSIC fans have branded last night's ARIA Awards as the worst ever, taking to social networking sites en masse today to voice their disgust.
Facebook and Twitter were bombarded with anti-ARIAs tirades, prompting ARIA itself to post a comment on Twitter in the afternoon.
"We would like to thank all of you for the feedback, whether good or bad, about the 2010 #ARIAs. All comments are being read & noted," the post said.
A synopsis of the commentary would make dismal reading, with comments on the official ARIAs Facebook page describing it as "lame" and a "car crash of a show".
The telecast was marred by a series of embarrassing gaffes, including Jessica Mauboy’s pronunciation of debut as “de-butt”, not once, but twice; Angus and Julia Stone who took out the two major awards – best album and single – facing the wrong way and thanking their dog and cat in their speech; politician Bob Katter pronouncing the awards “Araria”; and Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning having to ask what award they’d just won, after being MIA when the award was announced.
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However the organisation has gone to ground, and would not comment when contacted about the telecast.
Event producer Mark Pope was also not answering his phone, but did say before the event that “there will be plenty of time for post-analysis to see what worked and what didn't”.
“There's a bunch of very committed, passionate people about Australian music doing their very best to try and shine a light on Australian music and all its diversity,'' he said.
The event was a ratings disaster for Channel 10, coming in as the number 17th most-watched show of the night, and drawing just 624,000 viewers.
The network also refused to grant interviews about the telecast, instead releasing a one-line statement.
"The ARIAs are a very important event in the Australian music landscape and last night's performances were fantastic."
Music fans were appalled by the disorganised and confused telecast, and were particularly upset by what they felt was a disrespectful "tribute" to Models frontman James Freud, who passed away last week.
"Shocking!! Where was the Fitting tribute to An Australian great James Freud ,who was inducted into your hall of Fame a week ago?? Disgusted with the show !!” Meredith Wild posted on Facebook.
"I watched, but only because like the proverbial car crash, the production was so bad that I couldn’t look away,” Jodie posted on The Punch.
"Worst ARIAs ever. Production was all over the place. What was with having the presenters in the crowd - and the recipients. Trying to underwhelm everyone? And what about a tribute to James Freud - one of the cornerstones of Australian music. It was an absolute disgrace and an insult to his memory and legacy for it to just be a couple of lines from Marcia Hines, almost like an afterthought. Truly a shocking decision. Did the work experience kid plan and produce the show?" posted Theresa Valka on Facebook.
"WORSE (sic) ARIA EVER! Who were your organisors hope you sacked them. I’m 50yrs old been watching the Music Awards every since I was young have seen some strange things at them but this was so bad, bad direction, bad lines. And what this watch the nominee drinking and party instead of watching thats (sic) going on... Go back to the old way please????? I ended up turning over channels," Sharon Andrews posted on Facebook.
"I would totally agree that this year’s Arias were perhaps the weirdest ever. I tried to watch a couple of times but it was just unwatchable, no one seemed to know what was going on - not the crowd, presenters and especially not the international ‘stars’. What happened to the standard awards night? The way they did it last night just seemed so disrespectful for all the artists, you can’t blame them for just getting on the grog.
SOURCE: NEWS.COM.AU
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