Inexplicably enigmatic German outfit Tokio Hotel has apparently snagged the first Video Music Awards nomination of its career, with the band’s clip for “Ready, Set, Go!” getting nominated in the Best Pop Video category. This victory-before-the-victory was no doubt assisted by the fact that Internet fan voting helped determine said division’s picks, what with Tokio Hotel fans rivaling only Jonas Brothers diehards in the current pantheon of “bands who have crazed, computer-equipped teen girl squads as their fanbases.” And hey, given that the Jonas Brothers have already been announced as a performer on the Sept. 7 broadcast, and that MTV–no stranger to the fans of those two bands waging war on behalf of their beloved musicians–wants the broadcast to make a Britney-sized ratings splash again this year, I suspect this is all going to lead up to some sort of wresting match. Or at least a hairdo-off of some kind. The “Ready, Set, Go!” clip is after the jump, just so you all know what we’ll be getting into a month from now.
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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 »
It wasn’t Britney Spears’ fault that her performance sucked, y’all–blame the Palms, who thought that her Criss Angel-masterminded performance would be “too controversial”! Or who didn’t want to pay the insurance for “a set of mirrors and flotation” and “mature dancing”! More »
