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" Once my friend and I left school early, hopped on a train to New York with a homemade sign that said &amp;quot;Yellowcard, sing happy birthday to my friend,&amp;quot; and found our way to MTV Studios in Times Square. We were convinced the band would see our sign, invite us up to TRL, serenade my friend to a rock version of &amp;quot;Happy Birthday&amp;quot; and sign our T-shirts. What actually happened was a little different. We stood in the rowdy crowd waving our sign like idiots and getting hit in the head with the hands of other waving fans. Those were the days. Most have been critical of MTV&amp;#039;s TRL in recent years. Where did all the music videos go? I admit I haven&amp;#039;t tuned in to the show in a while, but I couldn&amp;#039;t miss TFL \u2013 Total Finale Live \u2013 last night. Yes, for those of you who haven&amp;#039;t heard, TRL is over after its 10 year run. Here&amp;#039;s some of my favorite moments from the three hour finale. Beyonce opened the show with a high-energy performance. During &amp;quot;If I Were A Boy&amp;quot; Beyonce proved why she&amp;#039;s still a star after Destiny&amp;#039;s Child \u2013 her voice sounded amazing live! Next she performed &amp;quot;Single Ladies&amp;quot; complete with the dance moves from the video. (Watch it below!)  It was best said by MTV News correspondent John Norris - &amp;quot;The Backstreet Boys outlived TRL.&amp;quot; It was only appropriate that they performed their song from the number three video on TFL, &amp;quot;I Want It That Way.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s weird that I never had a crush on a Backstreet Boy. I was more of an NSYNC girl. But I must say they are looking good! Oh, and their voices weren&amp;#039;t so bad either. As a Fall Out Boy fan, I am biased, but I thought their performance was awesome. I&amp;#039;ve seen some not-so-good live performances from the band, but on a stage on the sidewalk outside MTV, they rocked out to &amp;quot;I Don&amp;#039;t Care&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Dance, Dance.&amp;quot; And band hottie Pete Wentz wasn&amp;#039;t even there. He was home with pregnant wife Ashlee Simpson. When Carson Daly spoke to Pete on the phone, he said he just bought a bootleg copy of the Twilight movie and had been watching it all day. Jealous? Retired MTV VJ Hilarie Burton was back! I think she&amp;#039;s one of the best VJs the show ever had (next to Carson and La La). It was cool to see her partying where her career started, and not as the dramatic Peyton on One Tree Hill. She got her start after winning a TRL contest to interview stars on the red carpet. They liked her so much they kept her! Go Hilarie! Travis Barker spoke to TRL fans on the huge screen in Times Square. During the awkward interview, he didn&amp;#039;t say much about the plane crash, but he looked healthy and seemed really happy to be talking to his fans. Blink 182&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s My Age Again&amp;quot; was TFL&amp;#039;s number nine video. It features the band running the streets...naked. Remember that? First a video montage, then the number one TFL video, then The Britney Collection. TRL was Britney Spears&amp;#039; home away from home during her &amp;quot;...Baby One More Time&amp;quot; album success and it was only appropriate that her first hit was the last video played on TRL. She didn&amp;#039;t make an appearance or phone in, but Britney was there in spirit. After the show, The Britney Collection special showed fans&amp;#039; favorite Britney videos and a trailer from her documentary For the Record, which will air on MTV on Nov. 30 at 10 p.m., two days before the release date of Circus. Sunday was a great day for MTV. What was your favorite TFL moment? Will the show be missed? Tell us. Less Hills, more music, Tricia Web Intern Check out Beyonce&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Single Ladies&amp;quot; video.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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