Nominees for the 2009 Video Music Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, Sept. 13 in New York City:
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Eminem: “We Made You”
Lady Gaga: “Poker Face”
Britney Spears: “Womanizer”
Kanye West: “Love Lockdown”
BEST NEW ARTIST
3OH!3
Drake
Kid Cudi
Lady Gaga
Asher Roth
BEST MALE VIDEO
Eminem: “We Made You”
Jay-Z: “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)”
Kanye West: “Love Lockdown”
Ne-Yo: “Miss Independent”
T.I. featuring Rihanna: “Live Your Life”
BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Kelly Clarkson: “My Life Would Suck Without You”
Lady Gaga: “Poker Face”
Katy Perry: “Hot ‘N Cold”
Pink: “So What”
Taylor Swift: “You Belong With Me”
BEST HIP HOP VIDEO
Eminem: “We Made You”
Flo Rida: “Right Round”
Jay-Z: “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)”
Asher Roth: “I Love College”
Kanye West: “Love Lockdown”
BEST POP VIDEO
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester: “Good Girls Go Bad”
Lady Gaga: “Poker Face”
Britney Spears: “Womanizer”
Wisin y Yandel: “Abusadora”
BEST ROCK VIDEO
Coldplay: “Viva La Vida”
Fall Out Boy: “I Don’t Care”
Green Day: “21 Guns”
Kings Of Leon: “Use Somebody”
Paramore: “Decode”
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake: “Love Sex Magic”
Kristina DeBarge: “Goodbye”
AR Rahman & the Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger: “Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)”
Britney Spears: “Circus”
BEST DIRECTION
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” (director: Jake Nava)
Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester: “Good Girls Go Bad” (director: Kai Regan)
Green Day: “21 Guns” (director: Marc Webb)
Lady Gaga: “Paparazzi” (director: Jonas Akerlund)
Britney Spears: “Circus” (director: Francis Lawrence)
BEST EDITING
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Coldplay: “Viva La Vida”
Miley Cyrus: “7 Things”
Lady Gaga: “Paparazzi”
Britney Spears: “Circus”
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Eminem: “We Made You”
Gnarls Barkley: “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
Lady Gaga: “Paparazzi”
Kanye West ft Mr. Hudson: “Paranoid”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Coldplay: “Viva La Vida”
Green Day: “21 Guns”
Lady Gaga: “Paparazzi”
Britney Spears: “Circus”
BEST ART DIRECTION
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
Coldplay: “Viva La Vida”
Gnarls Barkley: “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
Lady Gaga: “Paparazzi”
Britney Spears: “Circus”
BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO
Anjulie: “Boom”
Bat For Lashes: “Daniel”
Chairlift: “Evident Utensil”
Cold War Kids: “I’ve Seen Enough”
Death Cab For Cutie: “Grapevine Fires”
Gnarls Barkley: “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
Major Lazer: “Hold The Line”
Matt & Kim: “Lessons Learned”
Passion Pit: “The Reeling”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Heads Will Roll”
BEST VIDEO (THAT SHOULD HAVE WON A MOONMAN)
Beastie Boys: “Sabotage”
Bjork: “Human Behavior”
Dr Dre: “Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang”
Foo Fighters: “Everlong”
George Michael: “Freedom ‘90″
OK Go: “Here It Goes Again”
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: “Into The Great Wide Open”
Radiohead: “Karma Police”
David Lee Roth: “California Girls”
U2: “Where The Streets Have No Name”
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Woohoo! It’s an endless loop of stale MTV Hits playlists! Glad to see MTV getting back to its roots. Or something.
(Aside: I hate that Wisin y Yandel video. Perhaps novel to the rest of you people, it’s the latest in a long line of overproduced bombast from those guys. Plus, “Mujeres in the Club” is so much more amusing.)
Also, someone explain Breakthrough Video to me — haven’t half these artists already um, broken through? Srlsly.
(Oh! Glad to see some love for “Love Lockdown,” even if “Paranoid” is shaping up to be the best video from 808s …)
Thoughts:
1. Wisin & Yandel for Best Pop Video? Like, I’m really up for some diversity, but that nom doesn’t even make sense.
2. I can’t believe Matt & Kim got some love! Those guys rock, and most likely won’t get the award, but a little recognition doesn’t hurt.
3. HUMAN BEHAVIOR FTW!!1!!
@michaela: Breakthrough Award is for the actual video, not the artist. It’s supposed to be for videos pushing the envelope and stuff.
@fre2daa: Surely there was one non-blog-rock band that made a technically innovative video this year?
@Maura: I wouldn’t know, I’m too bloggy!
@fre2daa: aww <3
You’d think the amount of times they played the “G Thing” video it would be have a Moonman. Oh well.
Asher Roth’s label must have paid a ton. Also, how old is that Pink video? Did she not make any others from that album? That actually makes me a little sad.
@cassidy2099: there were videos for ’sober’ and ‘please don’t leave me,’ but neither of them did very well.
Is it fair to be bummed that not one artist who can fall under the “rock” category is up for video of the year?
Also, REALLY hope Green Day takes Best Rock Video (I’m kinda worried Kings Of Leon will win).
I’m trying to think of a VIDEO (not song) from this year that should be on this list and is not.
@Maura: I really like the Please Don’t Leave Me video. But then, when I was little my mom used to make me watch Misery every time it came on HBO.
I just watched the Abusadora video thinking it would be the one technically cool video that always gets nominated even though MTV would never play it, even if they did show videos. But, mmmm, nope.
Also, boo to MTV giving the Paparazzi video so many nominations. Besides the fact that the single hasn’t even hit yet, it’s horrible and overlong and while yes, whoever did her hair might deserve an award, Jonas Akerlund is the worst thing ever.
@Maura: :D
@John Doe: Eminem’s “3 a.m.” is way better than the rehashed-joke clip that’s up. I also liked Kanye’s “Paranoid,” and Ne-Yo’s “Mad.”
And a few for the Breakthrough category:
Micachu’s “Golden Phone”
The Breeders’ “Fate To Fatal”
The awesome Dinosaur Jr.-goes-skateboarding clip
Notable omissions:
Black Eyed Peas
Mariah
And… Flo Rida? Ugh.
As far as blog-rock goes, I also think Fever Ray’s When I Grow Up should be there. And for boundary-pushing, what about the Solange pregnancy test video that basically doesn’t exist on the internet anymore?
@bcapirigi: OMG I totally forgot about the Fever Ray video. It’s so cool. Also, poor Solange, Beyoncé is just too much Knowles for the world.
@fre2daa oh, duh. thanks!
ps — in that case, I hope matt & kim win.
Excluding the moonman category, there are thirty-some acts sharing nominations across 14 categories. It’s disappointing that this small number are all that get recognized. They aren’t the best of the best. Beyonce and Lady Gaga share something like 18 nominations, alone.
Remember when music video television bombarded us with a nice smorgasbord of great viewing (back in the moonman nominees’ days)? I recently watched 30 minutes of “hot, new videos” on one of the MuchMTVH1 channels - only to be left underwhelmed and angry about it.