My thing with that is, did he not rehearse the song several times before the broadcast?  Did the meaning of the song really not resonate until the live show?

I find that hard to believe.  He had to have rehearsed that performance at least 3 times.  I can’t imagine they didn’t.  Maybe he just wanted to get the footwork down and when it came to the singing he said, “We’ll do it live.  I want to stay fresh.”

But not even during the sound check did he stop and say, “Wait a second, I’M the man in the mirror.  I need to make that change.  Shamon.”

It’s been a year since Michael Jackson’s death and we’ll still never truly know how he came up with “shamon.”  How is that even supposed to be spelled?

I digress.  I don’t buy the weeping at the end of Brown’s performance.  You can call me a hater all you want.  And you’d be right, I hate Chris Brown.  But mainly because I was just in a wedding this weekend and I heard “Forever” waaaaay too much.

I will give him credit for not performing “Beat It,” “Dangerous,” or “Speed Demon.”  Not that “Speed Demon” would have been inappropriate.  That song just sucks.