Thank you, Katy Perry. You saved the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. This was one of those award shows where all the entertainment comes from closeups of Katy Perry boredom faces. Damn, that girl has a warehouse full of them – what Taylor Swift is to "OMG you guys, no way, you really like me!" faces, Katy is to "How in the name of the saints and martyrs and all the ships at sea is this freakshow not over yet?" faces. And this year's VMA flameout gave Katy – and the rest of us – loads to roll those peepers about.
Tonight Katy's facial expressions ran the gamut from "One Direction? You actually have two: the Aaron or the Nick" to "either Alicia Keys fired her cough-drop roadie or this is the Whitney memorial montage." Her funniest closeup came when she leaned in to nuzzle Rihanna's throat while simultaneously rolling her eyes. It takes superhuman levels of boredom to even attempt the throat-nuzzle eyeroll, but Katy nailed it. Respect!
No lies though. Her and Ri were the only reasons I was able to keep my attention. Queens 
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