2012 MTV Video Music Awards

[Burke]

Anyone watching tonight?

Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Green Day, Taylor Swift and One Direction will be performing. Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus and others will be presenting awards.

Nominees:

Video of the Year
Drake (featuring Rihanna) — "Take Care"
Gotye (featuring Kimbra) — "Somebody That I Used to Know"
M.I.A. — "Bad Girls"
Katy Perry — "Wide Awake"
Rihanna (featuring Calvin Harris) — "We Found Love"

Best Male Video
Justin Bieber — "Boyfriend"
Chris Brown — "Turn Up the Music"
Drake (featuring Rihanna) — "Take Care"
Frank Ocean — "Swim Good"
Usher — "Climax"

Best Female Video
Beyoncé — "Love on Top"
Selena Gomez & the Scene — "Love You Like a Love Song"
Nicki Minaj — "Starships"
Katy Perry — "Part of Me"
Rihanna (featuring Calvin Harris) — "We Found Love"

Best New Artist
fun. (featuring Janelle Monáe) — "We Are Young"
Carly Rae Jepsen — "Call Me Maybe"
Frank Ocean — "Swim Good"
One Direction — "What Makes You Beautiful"
The Wanted — "Glad You Came"

Best Pop Video
Justin Bieber — "Boyfriend"
fun. (featuring Janelle Monáe) — "We Are Young"
Maroon 5 (featuring Wiz Khalifa) — "Payphone"
One Direction — "What Makes You Beautiful"
Rihanna (featuring Calvin Harris) — "We Found Love"

Best Rock Video
The Black Keys — "Lonely Boy"
Coldplay — "Paradise"
Imagine Dragons — "It's Time"
Linkin Park — "Burn It Down"
Jack White — "Sixteen Saltines"

Best Hip-Hop Video
Childish Gambino — "Heartbeat"
Drake (featuring Lil Wayne) — "HYFR"
Jay-Z and Kanye West — "Paris"
Nicki Minaj (featuring 2 Chainz) — "Beez in the Trap"
Kanye West (featuring Pusha T, Big Sean and 2 Chainz) — "Mercy"

Best Electronic Dance Music Video
Avicii — "Levels"
Duck Sauce — "Big Bad Wolf"
Calvin Harris — "Feel So Close"
Skrillex — "First of the Year (Equinox)"
Martin Solveig — "The Night Out"

Best Direction in a Video
Coldplay and Rihanna — "Princess of China" (Director: Adria Petty and Alan Bibby)
Duck Sauce — "Big Bad Wolf" (Director: Keith Schofield)
Jay-Z and Kanye West (featuring Otis Redding) — "Otis" (Director: Spike Jonze)
M.I.A. — "Bad Girls" (Director: Romain Gavras)
Frank Ocean — "Swim Good" (Director: Nabil Elderkin)

Best Choreography in a Video
Avicii — "Levels" (Choreographers: Richy Greenfield and Petro Papahadjopoulos)
Beyoncé — "Countdown" (Choreographers: Danielle Polanco, Frank Gatson Jr., Beyoncé and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)
Chris Brown — "Turn Up the Music" (Choreographer: Anwar "Flii" Burton)
Jennifer Lopez (featuring Pitbull) — "Dance Again" (Choreographer: JR Taylor)
Rihanna — "Where Have You Been" (Choreographer: Hi-Hat)

Best Visual Effects in a Video
David Guetta (featuring Nicki Minaj) — "Turn Me On" (Visual Effects: Alex Frisch, Joe Harkins, Scott Metzger and Vico Sharabani)
Linkin Park — "Burn It Down" (Visual Effects: Ghost Town Media)
Katy Perry — "Wide Awake" (Visual Effects: Ingenuity Engine)
Rihanna — "Where Have You Been" (Visual Effects: BAKED FX)
Skrillex — "First of the Year (Equinox)" (Visual Effects: Deka Brothers and Tony "Truand" Datis)

Best Art Direction in a Video
Lana Del Rey — "Born to Die" (Art Directors: Anna Brun and Audrey Malecot)
Drake (featuring Rihanna) — "Take Care" (Art Director: Charles Infante)
Of Monsters and Men — "Little Talks" (Art Director: Mihai Wilson and Marcella Moser)
Katy Perry — "Wide Awake" (Art Director: Benji Bamps)
Regina Spektor — "All the Rowboats" (Art Director: Anthony Henderson)

Best Editing in a Video
A$AP Rocky — "Goldie" (Editor: Samantha Lecca)
Beyoncé — "Countdown" (Editors: Alexander Hammer and Jeremiah Shuff)
Gotye (featuring Kimbra) — "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Editor: Natasha Pincus)
Jay-Z and Kanye West — "Paris" (Editors: Alexander Hammer, Peter Johnson and Derek Lee)
Kanye West (featuring Pusha T, Big Sean and 2 Chainz) — "Mercy" (Editor: Eric Greenburg)

Best Cinematography in a Video
Adele — "Someone Like You" (Director of Photography: David Johnson)
Coldplay and Rihanna — "Princess of China" (Director of Photography: Stéphane Vallée)
Lana Del Rey — "Born to Die" (Director of Photography: André Chemetoff)
Drake (featuring Rihanna) — "Take Care" (Director of Photography: Kasper Tuxen)
M.I.A. — "Bad Girls" (Director of Photography: André Chemetoff)

Best Video with a Message
Kelly Clarkson — "Dark Side"
Gym Class Heroes (featuring Ryan Tedder) — "The Fighter"
K'naan (featuring Nelly Furtado) — "Is Anybody Out There?"
Lil Wayne — "How to Love"
Demi Lovato — "Skyscraper"
Rise Against — "Ballad of Hollis Brown"

Most Share-Worthy Video
Beyoncé — "Countdown"
Justin Bieber — "Boyfriend"
Gotye (featuring Kimbra) — "Somebody That I Used to Know"
Carly Rae Jepsen — "Call Me Maybe"
One Direction — "What Makes You Beautiful"

Best Latino Artist
Juanes
Jennifer Lopez
Pitbull
Romeo Santos
Wisin & Yandel

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Can you believe it’s been 5 years already since…

[jayzero42690]

Of all the Britney performances, you pick that one?






That's better...

[Burke]

This was NINE fucking years ago already!

The VMA’s really are the house that Britney built. I hope she at least has a cameo or something. The VMA’s without Britney would be like WrestleMania without The Undertaker.

My fave non-Britney performances:

[jayzero42690]

Katy Perry has normal hair. I'm shocked.

[jayzero42690]

Well, that was a whole two hours of bleh

[Mutant Couch]

I watch the VMAs purely as my yearly pop music catchup. I had to catch the replay. Anyway, here's a list of questions and/or observations

- Do people actually find Kevin Hart funny?

- Rihanna and Katy Perry make a cute couple.

- The guys from The Wanted are pretty great to look at. It's too bad their music is terrible, but I can overlook that for the Irish guy.

- It's weird how Green Day looks like Pussy Riot will in 30 years. Oh, and that song was awful.

- Could they have been lamer with the MCA tribute?

- Is 2 Chains/z a parody rapper like Weird Al?

- I appreciate Nicki Minaj representing women with abnormal hip-to-waist proportions and that since she's not quite pretty she knows how to throw stupid shit at her head to deflect that. Good for her.

- I'm pretty sure my friend and I wrote that Taylor Swift song in 6th grade. Someone needs to tell her she's not 13 anymore and her lyrics should probably go through puberty now.

- Was she shooting an ad for Old Navy?

- Most importantly did she just come out as a Nazi? At least it looked like she was attempting to contort her body into the shape of a swastika when she was lift up.

[Burke]

There was no love lost between Nicki Minaj and Rihanna at the MTV Video Music Awards according to an insider's tip tweeted straight from the audience.

Trishelle Cannatella, star of The Real World, claims Nicki snapped at her former Fly collaborator when she tried to give her a congratulatory hug for winning Best Female Video.

"Omg #VMAs inside scoop. Nicki Minaj just told Rihanna to 'sit the f--- down' when she tried to hug her!!! Love it!!!" the spying reality star tweeted.

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^Considering they posed for that pic together before the show and just generally seem to get along well enough I doubt this is true but the thought of that comment being made makes me laugh.

[jayzero42690]

Joan Rivers looks nice in that picture

[Brandon]

Maybe she was kidding? That's just how bitches talk to each other.

However, I'm not opposed to Trishelle spilling tea of any kind.

[Brandon]