ARTIST: Christina Aguilera
TITLE: “Keeps Gettin’ Better”
WEB DEBUT: Sept. 5, 2008
Those of you who have been following the run-up to Sunday’s Video Music Awards as closely as I not only have my sympathies, you have confirmation of your suspicions: Britney Spears, she of last year’s botched show opener and this year’s elephantine teaser ads, will once again appear in the… More »
For better or worse, no one covers the innumerable amount of awards given to producers of cultural product than the Los Angeles Times, and this weekend, two of their bloggers made their predictions for Video Of The Year award at this Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards. However, some sort of gas must have been leaking into the Times‘ cubicle farm that day, since both of them picked the Pussycat Dolls’ scaffolding-happy clip for “When I Grow Up” to pick up the top prize.
The kids from High School Musical, the continually overrated Scarlett Johansson, and the guy who played McLovin’ have been added to the Video Music Awards’ lineup of presenters. More »
The technical categories for this year’s Video Music Awards–Best Choreography, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction–were announced today, and the big winner, inexplicably, is the Pussycat Dolls’ “When I Grow Up,” which received nods for… More »
Nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards, which take place Sept. 7 in Los Angeles:
Both Britney Spears’ people and MTV’s publicity department want you to know that, despite her appearance in ads for the awards show and the promise of a “surprise” that night, the maybe-rising-again pop star will not be performing on the Sept. 7 telecast, at least according to a statement her… More »
Seat-filling site 1iota.com is looking for Jonas Brothers fans to stuff the audience ranks for the boys’ Video Music Awards performance, and as if seeing their favorite Jersey-raised brothers isn’t enough of a carrot for these kids, the site hints that people selected to be in the audience will get to see what the site is billing as a “Top-Secret Finale.” (Caps theirs.) But which performer could actually shock the Red Bull-and-IM-frazzled children of today into being, well, surprised? Poll after the jump.
Sure, gossip pages around the world are hoping against hope that Britney Spears will come full circle from last year and have a big redemptive moment at this year’s Video Music Awards. More »
MTV announced two more slates of Video Music Awards nominations today, and while the nominees for Best Rock Video have a few OK contenders among them (Fall Out Boy’s “Beat It” cover, Paramore’s “crushcrushcrush”), a couple of the contenders for Video Of The Year–you know, the big prize–are worthy of a head-scratch or two. Sure, I can buy the idea of Britney Spears’ road to redemption culminating with her winning a moonman for her self-mocking “Piece Of Me” clip. And the Jonas Brothers’ “Burnin’ Up” isn’t groundbreaking, but those kids sure do know how to mobilize their fanbase. But the other three videos in the category would surely be considered also-rans in any other year. You’ve got Chris Brown’s stealth gum ad “Forever”; the Ting Tings’ “Shut Up And Let Me Go,” which looks like a film-school synthesis between the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” and that Justice clip that got nominated last year; and the Pussycat Dolls’ “When I Grow Up,” which is such a steaming piece of all-around garbage that I have to think there was some sort of coordinated street-team effort by Interscope to fool people into thinking that Nicole Scherzinger was still worthy of attention. All five clips are after the jump, so you can judge for yourself.
