Sure, in the long run, “which artists had to take moonmen home from tonight’s Video Music Awards ceremony” is probably a meaningless statistic on the level of, say, “almost-no-hitters in Mets history,” but admit it, you want to know if Paramore beat out Fall Out Boy or if both of them got robbed by Linkin Park I MEAN COME ON YOU GUYS–uh, I mean, full list of winners after the jump.
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Britney Spears, “Piece of Me”
BEST MALE VIDEO
Chris Brown, “With You”
BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Britney Spears, “Piece of Me”
BEST NEW ARTIST
Tokio Hotel, “Ready, Set, Go!”
BEST POP VIDEO
Britney Spears, “Piece of Me”
BEST ROCK VIDEO
Linkin Park, “Shadow of the Day”
BEST HIP-HOP VIDEO
Lil Wayne (featuring Static Major), “Lollipop”
BEST DANCING IN A VIDEO
Pussycat Dolls, “When I Grow Up”
BEST ART DIRECTION
Gnarls Barkley, “Run”
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Gnarls Barkley, “Run”
BEST DIRECTING
Erykah Badu, “Honey”
BEST EDITING
Death Cab For Cutie, “I Will Possess Your Heart”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The White Stripes, “Conquest”
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Kanye West, “Good Life”
Meaningless stat? You’re just trying to reduce the momentousness of Britney’s three-peat, hater.
(Honestly, though…seeing Britney do the kind of routine Christina did tonight would’ve been a lot more happy-making than those three awards.)
I agree with Dickdogfood that Britney’s three wins were a defensible, relatively happy result on the main show.
But most of the rest of the winners on the telecast sucked — and, by contrast, virtually all of the winners not broadcast (i.e., the list above starting with Art Direction, on down) were uniformly good and deserving.
So I guess this is what the VMA trophy itself has evolved into: respectable in the small categories, crap on the air. Srsly, in the ’80s and ’90s the VMAs used to be remarkably good at rewarding deserving stuff — much better than you’d expect on an awards show where the awards were always secondary to the spectacle. Now, not so much.