Well its that time of year again
the major awards
[edit] Video of the Year [3]
Chris Brown — "Forever"
Jonas Brothers — "Burnin' Up"
Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"
Britney Spears — "Piece of Me"
The Ting Tings — "Shut Up and Let Me Go"

[edit] Best Male Video [4]
Chris Brown — "With You"
Flo Rida (featuring T-Pain) — "Low"
Lil Wayne (featuring Static Major) — "Lollipop"
T.I. — "No Matter What"
Usher (featuring Young Jeezy) — "Love in This Club"

[edit] Best Female Video [5]
Mariah Carey — "Touch My Body"
Katy Perry — "I Kissed a Girl"
Rihanna — "Take a Bow"
Jordin Sparks (featuring Chris Brown) — "No Air"
Britney Spears — "Piece of Me"

[edit] Best New Artist [6]
Miley Cyrus — "7 Things"
Katy Perry — "I Kissed a Girl"
Jordin Sparks (featuring Chris Brown) — "No Air"
Taylor Swift — "Teardrops on My Guitar"
Tokio Hotel — "Ready, Set, Go!"

[edit] Best Pop Video [7]
Danity Kane — "Damaged"
Jonas Brothers — "Burnin' Up"
Panic at the Disco — "Nine in the Afternoon"
Britney Spears — "Piece of Me"
Tokio Hotel — "Ready, Set, Go!"

[edit] Best Rock Video [8]
Fall Out Boy (featuring John Mayer) — "Beat It"
Foo Fighters — "The Pretender"
Linkin Park — "Shadow of the Day"
Paramore — "Crushcrushcrush"
Slipknot — "Psychosocial"

[edit] Best Hip-Hop Video [9]
Mary J. Blige — "Just Fine"
Lupe Fiasco (featuring Matthew Santos) — "Superstar"
Flo Rida (featuring T-Pain) — "Low"
Lil Wayne (featuring Static Major) — "Lollipop"
Kanye West (featuring Chris Martin) — "Homecoming"

[edit] Best Dancing in a Video [10]
Chris Brown — "Forever"
Danity Kane — "Damaged"
Madonna (featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland) — "4 Minutes"
Ne-Yo — "Closer"
Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"

[edit] Best Direction in a Video [11]
Erykah Badu — "Honey" (Directors: Erykah Badu and Mr. Roboto)
Linkin Park — "Shadow of the Day" (Director: Joe Hahn)
Panic at the Disco — "Nine in the Afternoon" (Director: Shane Drake)
Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up" (Director: Joseph Kahn)
Rihanna — "Take a Bow" (Director: Anthony Mandler)

[edit] Best Choreography in a Video [12]
Adele — "Chasing Pavements" (Choreographer: Marguerite Derricks)
Chris Brown — "Forever" (Choreographers: Tone & Rich)
Chris Brown (featuring T-Pain) — "Kiss Kiss" (Choreographer: Flii Stylz)
Gnarls Barkley — "Run" (Choreographer: Michael Rooney)
Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up" (Choreographers: Robin Antin and Mikey Minden)

and no i am prob not gonna watch it. If anything, i'm pullin for the Ting Tings and slipknot respectfully. And as i told people on another board, if fall out boy wins best rock video for their shitty 'beat it' cover, i'm boycotting mtv.

and for those interested, the proformance list (and prob the order too)'
Britney Spears - "Underground"
Christina Aguilera - "Genie In A Bottle"
Jonas Brothers - "Lovebug"
Katy Perry (featuring Travis Barker & DJ AM) - "I Kissed A Girl"/"Like A Virgin"/"Hot N Cold"
Rihanna - "Disturbia"
Lupe Fiasco (featuring Travis Barker & DJ AM) - "Superstar"
T.I. (featuring Rihanna) - "Live Your Life" "Whatever You Like"
Pink - "So What"
Kid Rock - "All Summer Long"
Lil Wayne - "Lollipop"
Paramore (featuring Travis Barker & DJ AM) - "That's What You Get"/"Misery Business"
T-Pain - "Church"/"Can't Believe It"
The Ting Tings - "That's Not My Name"/"Shut Up and Let Me Go"
Kanye West - "Love Lockdown" (Rumors are circulating that Eminem was doing a rehearsal with Kanye West on stage, these have yet to be confirmed.)
Note: Travis Barker and DJ AM will perform small interludes of past hits throughout the show. They will also team up with Katy Perry, The Ting Tings and Lupe Fiasco at certain points to perform some MTV classics from the past 25 years.

wow.... MTV sucks so bad now...

Now? They've sucked the sweat off a dead camel's nuts since 1992.

i didn't know Paramore was performing...that is awesome!

They actually made Britney look not so bad for this show.

ok what was the surprise opening performance

This host guy...he is actually famous in the UK? For what?

its funny he called Bush a retard wearing an outfit and hair like that...

He's mostly famous for being famous. He was great in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and is a pretty entertaining interviewee on talk shows. His standup bit he just did sucked a nut, though.

Spears wised up and wore something a little less revealing, and she doesn't come off as a train wreck, good for her.

That was one of the worst cases of bait and switch i have ever seen. Yeah right, Britney Spears fucking opened the VMA's. ha ha!

My question is: does people actually watch this crap? I mean, every now and then I hear Viacom executives saying that they are losing money and failing in attracting viewers for the MTV family of networks and that the much cherished 18-35 demographic is not tuning in. So I ask myself, can't they fucking not see the reason why this is happening. Of all the tv channels, MTV and all of its spawns, are the ones that have changed the most for the past 25 years. They went from a music television channell to reality crap on a stick with almost no music in their programming. And these idiots wonder why people are tuning out!!!

Jessi Peralta from SYTYCD is a backup dancer for Christina Aguliera. She is a blonde now.

my wife is watching..... she said you know its bad when they arent doing it in an actual venue anymore...

Last I read, ratings for regular shows were up, just ratings for the VMAs/Movie Awards were down. I don't watch MTV at all anymore outside of an occasional award show, so I don't actually know what is on there anymore, last I checked it was pretty horrible.

It makes sense that they don't show music videos when they can get cheap-as-dirt reality TV shows on air that score twice as well.

wow! they rocked! will be the best performance of the night...hands down!!!

so has best rock vid been announced yet?

nevermind...Pink wins!



see i don't watch MTV...ever! but i will watch the VMA's simply for the performances. and you know what they are always quite good with exceptions of course (see Britney 2007). but when these performers go all out and actually sing and sing live it is something to see. i watch for that and i couldn't tell you who won or lost what. i just dig music, especially live and i will gladly have a sleep hangover tomorrow for it.

Linkin Park — "Shadow of the Day"

Nice nip slips, Pink.

Britney, what's an "anniversity"?

have the ting tings played yet (so i know or not if i have to watch this crap or not)

you gotta turn the sound up alot
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I thought I hit a time warp what with Linkin Park, Britney, Christina, and Pink being relavent.

Rock video selection was pretty awful, so no surprise there.

I hope that not-as-hot Leeloo Dallas found her multipass. She was trying her damndest to sound like Fallout Boy.

The host (Russell Brand) is (I guess) somewhat known because on September 12th, 2001, when he was a host on MTV in the UK, he came to work dressed as Osama Bin Laden, and they fired him.

Despite that, I had never heard of him until Forgetting Sarah Marshall came out.

damn, christina in a dominatrix outfit (sort of)

I can't tell if the acoustics are fucked or if she's just fucking up the lipsyncing (weird since she's the one that never seemed to need to) or just singing backup to her master track.