- The VMA DIscussion Thread - [merged]

BEST COLLABORATION
B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga - Video Phone (Extended Remix)
Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé - Telephone
3OH!3 featuring Kesha - My First Kiss
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind

BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Ke$ha - Tik Tok
Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga - Video Phone (Extended Remix)
Taylor Swift - Fifteen

BEST MALE VIDEO
Eminem - Not Afraid
Usher featuring Will.I.Am - OMG
B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes
Drake - Find Your Love
Jason Derulo - In My Head

BEST HIP HOP VIDEO
B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes
Eminem - Not Afraid
Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem - Forever
Jay-Z & Swizz Beats - On To The Next One
Kid Cudi featuring MGMT & Ratatat - Pursuit Of Happiness

BEST NEW ARTIST
Ke$ha - Tik Tok
Jason Derulo - In My Head
Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris - Baby
Nicki Minaj featuring Sean Garrett - Massive Attack
Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside

BEST POP VIDEO
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dog - California Gurls
Ke$ha - Tik Tok
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga - Video Phone (Extended Remix)
B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars - Nothing on You

BEST ROCK VIDEO
30 Seconds To Mars - Kings and Queens
Muse - Uprising
Paramore - Ignorance
Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
MGMT - Flash Delirium

BEST DANCE MUSIC VIDEO
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull - I Like It
Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor
David Guetta featuring Akon - Sexy Chick
Usher featuring Will.I.Am - OMG

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
30 Seconds To Mars - Title: Kings and Queens
Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé - Telephone
Eminem - Not Afraid
B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams - Airplanes

BEST ART DIRECTION
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Florence + The Machine - Dogs Days Are Over
Eminem - Not Afraid
30 Seconds To Mars - Kings and Queens
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga - Video Phone (Extended Remix)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé - Telephone
Beyoncé featuring Lady Gaga - Video Phone (Extended Remix)
Usher featuring Will.I.Am - OMG
Janelle Monáe featuring Big Boi - Tightrope

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eminem - Not Afraid
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man
Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over

BEST DIRECTION
Jay-Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Eminem - Not Afraid
P!nk - Funhouse
30 Seconds To Mars - Kings and Queens

BEST EDITING
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Eminem - Not Afraid
Rihanna - Rude Boy
P!nk - Funhouse
Miike Snow - Animal

BEST SFX (SPECIAL EFFECTS)
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Eminem - Not Afraid
Muse - Uprising
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Dan Black - Symphonies

BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO
Dan Black - Symphonies
Gorillaz featuring Bobby Womack & Mos Def - Stylo
Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
The Black Keys - Tighten Up

The VMAs are almost a contradiction now. They may as well mark this their final year to host the awards, seeing as how MTV doesn't stand for music television anymore. They're awarding videos that they even play.

I doubt I'll even watch. None of these nominations impress me. IA that the VMA's have been depressed since the 2000s.

I hope GAGA wins for Bad Romance.

Read today that Mr. "Beyonce Had One Of the Greatest Videos Of All Time," himself, is gonna be a performing at the VMA's. Should be interesting....

LOL, what a crack up. Kanye is starting to bore me now.

List of performers:
Nicki Minaj and Will.I.Am
Linkin Park
Bruno Mars
Mary J. Blige
Swizz Beatz
Usher
Paramore
Travie McCoy/Deadmau5
Robyn/Deadmau5
Jason Derulo/Deadmau5
Eminem
Justin Bieber
B.o.B
Florence + the Machine
Kanye West
Drake


Presenters:
Cast of Jersey Shore
Cast of Glee
Kim Kardashian
Ellen DeGeneres
Katy Perry
Chris Pine
The Cast of Jackass
Rosario Dawson
Evan Rachel Wood
Aventura's Romeo
Cher
Justin Timberlake
Jesse Eisenberg
Andrew Garfield
Ke$ha
Ashley Greene
Nicki Minaj
Emma Stone
Penn Badgley
Trey Songz
Selena Gomez
Ne-Yo

For those of you who missed the awards ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, here is the complete list of 2010 VMA Awards winners.

Video of the Year
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Best Male Video
Eminem - Not Afraid

Best Female video
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Best New Artist
Justin Bieber -f/Ludacris Baby

Best Hip Hop Video
Eminem - Not Afraid

Best Pop Video
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Best Dance Video
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Best Rock Video
30 Seconds To Mars- Kings and Queens

Best Collaboration
Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé - Telephone

Best choreography

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Best Editing

Lady Gaga -Bad Romance

Best Art Direction
Florence + the Machine -Dog Days Are Over

Best Direction
Lady Gaga -Bad Romance

Best Cinematography
J-Z and Alicia Keyes- Empire State of Mind

Best Special Effects
Muse -Uprising

Breakthrough Video

The Black Keys - Tighten Up

I remember when the Lady Gaga Bad Romance video first came out. It showed me that Lady Gaga is the next Madonna...or has already become the modern day Madonna. IN addition, I knew that Justin Bieber would get something, especially for "Baby." That's a serious tune that gets stuck in your head.

Lady Gaga swept the awards!!

Tony Marino wrote:Lady Gaga swept the awards!!

Yep. It was her night,

GaGa cleaned house! I didn't watch but am going to have to find a clip of Bieber singing. I guess his lip syncing was awful.

MTV Scores Biggest Ratings in 8 Years With VMAs


By Hunter Walker
Published: September 13, 2010 @ 1:41 pm


Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards telecast was up over 27 percent from last year, bringing the network its highest-rated telecast since Aug. 2002. The VMA's, which were hosted by comedienne Chelsea Handler, averaged 11.4 million total viewers, making it MTVs most-watched show since the 2002 Video Music Awards. Sunday's was the network's third most-watched telecast ever. The 2010 VMAs currently ranks as the top cable telecast of 2010 followed by another MTV hit -- “Jersey Shore.” Van Toffler, president of the MTV Networks music & Logo Group said the network was gratified by the warm reception the 2010 VMAs received from audiences. “Every year, MTV celebrates the music and creative genius of artists we have the privilege of working with all year long ... Last night's luminescent VMA setting provided the perfect backdrop to do just that and we're thrilled the audience resoundingly agreed," Toffler said. MTV debuted in 1981. The first Video Music Awards were held three years later.

Source: http://www.thewrap.com/television/column-post/mtv-scores-its-biggest-ratings-8-years-2010-vmas-20798

Cher's face couldn't be any more botoxed, her mouth could barely move.

JM130ELM wrote:Cher's face couldn't be any more botoxed, her mouth could barely move.

I don't know why she wore that. All it did was make her look like a caricature of herself. That would have been like Janet showing up in her Rhythm Nation outfit from twenty years ago.

^^^^^ Damn, that nosatall is SERIOUS.

Wow, Cher. Lady GaGa's meat dress was pretty awful too.