Award Show Flashback: 1997

The MTV Video Music Awards are tomorrow night. I have no idea why this still exists considering MTV rarely plays music videos, but whatever. In a nicely timed coincidence, Metalboy sent me some texts last night asking if I remembered a certain Aerosmith performance from an awards show long ago. I did vaguely remember the performance but I could not remember which award show.

Metalboy sleuthed it out and found Aerosmith's 1997 Billboard Music Awards performance. It happened in Las Vegas, they did the song "Pink" and synchronized swimming was involved. At the end, Steven Tyler jumps in the water, too.

You just don't see performances like the one below anymore. It was a fun blast from the past to watch again. I know I watched it live back in 1997. I was a junior in high school and obsessed with Aerosmith. The show was on December 8, which was a Monday night. I'm sure I made my parents sit through the show.