The only thing better than traveling to the moon is having the coveted moon man statue on your mantle piece. Yes! MTV has announced the nominees for this year’s best music videos. Check below to see who I think will be taking home the hardware this year!
Best Collaboration
In the best collabo category, we have the heavy weights of hip hop and of pop. Jay- Z and Alicia Keys with “Empire State of Mind”:
Beyonce and Gaga in “Video Phone”:
and Gaga featuring Beyonce in “Telephone”:
All chart toppers that kept us all rapping, singing, and dancing. Can the lesser known B.o.B. with “Airplanes” and 3OH!3 featuring Ke$ha with “My First Kiss” hold their own against the stars?
For the past several months, it seems that everyone has been humming “I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.” And 3OH!3’s “My First Kiss” is upbeat , energetic, and refreshing. I’m all about the triumph of the underdog for this category.
My vote: “My First Kiss” by 3OH!3
Best Dance Video
Cascada, Enrique, Usher, Gaga, and David Guetta are battling it out for best dance video of the year. Remember when dance videos actually had choreography? Think Janet’s “Rhythm Nation” or even Paula Abdul’s “Cold Hearted Snake.” Yeah. Not so much anymore.
Cascada’s “Evacuate the Dance Floor” is a great song, but the video hardly qualifies as a dance video.
After watching all the hot, bangin’ bodies in David Guetta’s “Sexy Chick”, I wanted to diet not dance.
The girls in the video are smoking hot, but again, not so much dancing going on there. Maybe I missed the memo, but can we mandate that a video in this category at least have an eight count of choreography? Well, I have no choice but to credit the creative one for allowing us a glimpse into her monster world.
My vote: “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga
Best Female Video
Well, hi there, Beyonce and Gaga. These two rock stars show up again in this category with “Video Phone” and “Bad Romance,” respectively. How do Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok,” Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” and Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen” measure against these divas?
“California Gurls”, with its cutesy, Candy Land theme, could be a contender:
And because “Tik Tok” was such a hit, Ke$ha might be waking up feeling like she has a moon man next to her.
And, no, it’s not the CMAs, but I am diggin’ Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen”:
The song is great, and the video feels like a whimsical fairy tale. The lyrics and visuals make you a bit nostalgic about your own adolescent days, and if a music video has the power to make you think and not just watch, then it gets my vote.
My vote: “Fifteen” by Taylor Swift
Video of the Year
Okay, so Lady Gaga is up against herself with both “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” for Video of the Year. Because little monsters all over the globe will be voting ‘round the clock to support Gaga, she is bound to win this category.
However, 30 Seconds To Mars really impressed me with their “Kings and Queens” video:
If you live in LA, you probably spent the first couple times watching it and saying, “hey, I recognize that place!” And then you start wondering, “how in the WORLD did they film this video throughout the streets of LA with NO traffic!?!” I mean, really. When is there ever NOT traffic in LA? There’s literally not a stray car seen in the video. Accomplishing that feat alone warrants 30 Seconds To Mars a moon man.
My vote: “Kings and Queens” by 30 Seconds To Mars
For a full list of this year’s nominees, visit mtv.com. Be sure to watch the MTV VMAs on September 12 at 9/8 c, and find out if my predictions were correct!
Be sure to check out more great posts from Music Editor Erica Renee Davis right here at Positively Celebrity!
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