What else to make of the announcement that “Piece Of Me” is the “first announced nominee” for this year’s installment of the Video Music Awards, which are allegedly having nominees voted on by people who can fight their way through MTV’s labyrinthine Web site? More »
The Jonas Brothers! They’re everywhere, and they’re going to be in even more places very soon, what with their recent booking on the MTV Video Music Awards and their Tiger Beat-ready mugs gracing the cover of the new Rolling Stone. (Nice that the editors gave a tip of the hat to last year’s Efron shirt-tug in the cover photo.) Now, obviously we’ve been covering the boys’ ascent since they first got sucked into Disney’s pop machine. So why is there something about all this JB love that seems a little, well, weird, even though it’s synced to the Aug. 12 release of their next album, A Little Bit Longer?
MTV has announced that it’s opening nominations for this year’s video music awards to the fans, presumably because July and August are low-traffic months for Web sites all over the planet and they need to boost the traffic to MTV.com somehow. Eight categories will have their nominations receive “help” from the clicking hordes: Best Male Video; Best Female Video; Best Hip-Hop Video; Best Pop Video; Best Dancing In A Video (apparently the word “choreography” is too syllable-filled for Generation TXT); Best New Artist; Best Rock Video; and Video Of The Year. Given past online skirmishes between crazed fans, it looks like the final category is going to play host to a bloody, yet well-coiffed, showdown between the Jonas Brothers and Tokio Hotel. But what of the other battles?
MTV-owned blog pens post saying that Lil Wayne “absoluteamentely needs to host the 2008 MTV VMAs” for a variety of reasons, including his previous appearances on the channel, his forthcoming line of bubbly and his unabashed willingness to wear two-year-old Urban Outfitters offerings on TV. More »
How is MTV planning to top last year’s MTV Video Music Awards, which, despite instilling something resembling post-traumatic stress disorder in the psyches of many a viewer (this writer included), achieved bigger numbers than those in previous years and epitomized the Internet-watercooler-driven strategy that MTV is so aggressively courting these days? (“There was a time when the music video itself is what happened in culture, but now it’s the music video and what everyone has to say about it that is what’s happening,” Brian Graden, president of MTV programming, told Reuters in a piece on the endless remixing and revisiting of MTV’s “we do show music” flagship FNMTV.) Will the Los Angeles-based ceremony/party/excuse for televised debauchery go back to the big-numbers well and reinvite Britney Spears, who, most of you will probably remember, sleepwalked through “Gimme More” to open last year’s show?
More exciting news about is year’s MTV Video Music Awards! “This year’s event will mark a first in VMA lore: The channel will be turning to its audience, asking them to executive-produce the big show. More »
More exciting news about is year’s MTV Video Music Awards! “This year’s event will mark a first in VMA lore: The channel will be turning to its audience, asking them to executive-produce the big show. More »
Start steeling yourself now–the MTV Video Music Awards are coming back Sept. 7, but after last year’s debaucherous debacle at a Vegas casino they’ll be returning to Los Angeles. More »
Start steeling yourself now–the MTV Video Music Awards are coming back Sept. 7, but after last year’s debaucherous debacle at a Vegas casino they’ll be returning to Los Angeles. More »
You may remember that last year, in an effort to get people on the Internet psyched about the Video Music Awards, MTV entered into a partnership with microblogging site Twitter–ostensibly allowing users to follow every move of Timbaland, Daughtry, Peter Bjorn & John, and other artists as they… More »
