This post comes hours after praising MTV's earlier days. The nominees for the 2009 Music Video Awards were announced earlier this week, and as predicted, it's mostly all a disgrace. I can name a handful of these artists that merely stole riffs and beats from classic songs and sprinkled their own unpoetical trash on top of it, with help from their millionaire producers, of course. What a joke. These are why are kids are failing out of schools; not because of poor family lives or video games, but because they are witnessing the world's worst music on mainstream MTV, sending the majority of society back thousands of years. Okay - enough.We're not going to go into "Video Of The Year", "Best Hip-Hop Video", and that other shit. You'll just want to gouge your eyes out in shame. So here are the ones we actually care about:
"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"
Wouldn't it be sick to see Kings win this one? They won't. Not by a long shot. Other losers: Paramore was last year's flavor and they wrote this tune for a movie, so instant "No" for that video. Fall Out Boy didn't make enough of a splash this year. Coldplay received enough Grammy's to hold them over. Truth is, MTV loves Green Day too much. My guess is those whiny Anti-Americans steal this one and further push teenagers into cliche anarchy in the "punk rock" genre of the late 00's.
Fall Out Boy - "I Don't Care"
Green Day - "21 Guns"
Kings Of Leon - "Use Somebody"
Paramore - "Decode"
Wouldn't it be sick to see Kings win this one? They won't. Not by a long shot. Other losers: Paramore was last year's flavor and they wrote this tune for a movie, so instant "No" for that video. Fall Out Boy didn't make enough of a splash this year. Coldplay received enough Grammy's to hold them over. Truth is, MTV loves Green Day too much. My guess is those whiny Anti-Americans steal this one and further push teenagers into cliche anarchy in the "punk rock" genre of the late 00's.
Kings Of Leon - "Use Somebody"
"Breakthrough Video"
"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"
Mat And Kim - "Lessons Learned"
Passion Pit - "The Reeling"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll"
This is an exciting one .Okay, so the VMA's are all about "music videos" - correct? Okay, well in this case, I'm rooting for Bat For Lashes, Death Cab For Cutie, or Major Lazer. All really terrific videos, especially the animated ones. But then again, I wouldn't be sad if any of these groups walked away with the moonman. This is obviously what's become of the old "MTV2 Award" and it should go to an alternative act (who remembers the "Best Alternative Video" category in the early 90's?). If I have to choose one, my money's going on Gnarls Barkley.
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"
Mat And Kim - "Lessons Learned"
Passion Pit - "The Reeling"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll"
This is an exciting one .Okay, so the VMA's are all about "music videos" - correct? Okay, well in this case, I'm rooting for Bat For Lashes, Death Cab For Cutie, or Major Lazer. All really terrific videos, especially the animated ones. But then again, I wouldn't be sad if any of these groups walked away with the moonman. This is obviously what's become of the old "MTV2 Award" and it should go to an alternative act (who remembers the "Best Alternative Video" category in the early 90's?). If I have to choose one, my money's going on Gnarls Barkley.
Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
"Best Video (That Should Have Won A Moonman)"
"Best Video (That Should Have Won A Moonman)"
Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
Björk - "Human Behaviour"
David Lee Roth - "California Girls"
Dr. Dre - "Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
George Michael - "Freedom"
OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"
Radiohead - "Karma Police"
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - "Into The Great Wide Open"
U2 - "Where The Streets Have No Name"
I dig this category. Every year they come up with another absurd award and this year, it's this nostalgia-redemption one. My vote: Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead... or Beastie Boys. The video for "Karma Police" is masterful, but the video for "Sabotage" is such a classic. If neither can't have it, then I say give it to Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, or U2. All these videos are great, I just believe that some are better than others. Ultimately, Radiohead has a history of being robbed, so they deserve this. We'll see how it plays out.
What are your thoughts? For the complete list of nominees in each category, check out the VMA website here. And be sure to get ready to vomit when English prick Russel Brand hosts the 25th Annual MTV Video Music Awards, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, September 13th. I'll watching it with a bucket and a bottle of ipecac.
Björk - "Human Behaviour"
David Lee Roth - "California Girls"
Dr. Dre - "Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
George Michael - "Freedom"
OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"
Radiohead - "Karma Police"
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - "Into The Great Wide Open"
U2 - "Where The Streets Have No Name"
I dig this category. Every year they come up with another absurd award and this year, it's this nostalgia-redemption one. My vote: Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead... or Beastie Boys. The video for "Karma Police" is masterful, but the video for "Sabotage" is such a classic. If neither can't have it, then I say give it to Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, or U2. All these videos are great, I just believe that some are better than others. Ultimately, Radiohead has a history of being robbed, so they deserve this. We'll see how it plays out.
Get well soon, MCA. We missed you at All Points West.
What are your thoughts? For the complete list of nominees in each category, check out the VMA website here. And be sure to get ready to vomit when English prick Russel Brand hosts the 25th Annual MTV Video Music Awards, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, September 13th. I'll watching it with a bucket and a bottle of ipecac.
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