Even if the network rarely plays music videos and these awards mean pretty much nothing… the nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards have been announced! Britney Spears, Beyonce and Lady Gaga are leading the pack, leading us to wonder if the same guys who vote on our Song of Summer charts are the ones picking the nominees.
To celebrate the announcement, we sifted through the choices and designated our top picks. In other words, if "Single Ladies" doesn't win Video of the Year and sweep most of these categories… we're going to cut some bitches.
– Dewitt
To check out the nominees and our picks, follow the JUMP:
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé: Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Lady Gaga: Poker Face
Eminem: We Made You
Kanye West: Love Lockdown
Britney Spears: Womanizer
BEST NEW ARTIST
3OH!3
Lady Gaga (even I need to admit she deserves this)
Kid Cudi
Drake
Asher Roth
BEST MALE VIDEO
Eminem: "We Made You"
Kanye West: "Love Lockdown" (This was a tough decision since these are all pretty lame.)
Jay-Z: "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)"
T.I. featuring Rihanna: "Live Your Life"
Ne-Yo: "Miss Independent"
BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Lady Gaga: "Poker Face"
Taylor Swift: "You Belong With Me"
Kelly Clarkson" "My Life Would Suck Without You"
Katy Perry: "Hot 'N Cold"
Pink: "So What"
BEST HIP-HOP VIDEO
Eminem: "We Made You"
Kanye West: "Love Lockdown"
Flo Rida: "Right Round"
Asher Roth: "I Love College" (Only because of this.)
Jay-Z: "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)"
BEST POP VIDEO
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Womanizer"
Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester: "Good Girls Go Bad"
Lady Gaga: "Poker Face"
Wisin y Yandel: "Abusadora"
BEST ROCK VIDEO
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
Kings Of Leon: "Use Somebody"
Green Day: "21 Guns"
Fall Out Boy: "I Don't Care"
Paramore: "Decode"
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake: "Love Sex Magic"
AR Rahman & Pussy Cat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger: "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)"
Kristina DeBarge: "Goodbye"
BEST DIRECTION
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
Green Day: "21 Guns"
Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester: "Good Girls Go Bad"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
BEST EDITING
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Miley Cyrus: "7 Things" (Whatever, she's a diva now! J/K, we'd choose Beyonce.)
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Gnarls Barkley: "Who’s Gonna Save My Soul"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
Eminem: "We Made You"
Kanye West ft Mr. Hudson: "Paranoid"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
Green Day: "21 Guns"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi" (Sorry Britney!)
BEST ART DIRECTION
Beyoncé: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Britney Spears: "Circus"
Lady Gaga: "Paparazzi"
Gnarls Barkley: "Who’s Gonna Save My Soul"
Coldplay: "Viva La Vida"
BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO
Death Cab For Cutie: "Grapevine Fires"
Gnarls Barkley: "Who’s Gonna Save My Soul"
Anjulie: "Boom"
Cold War Kids: "I've Seen Enough"
Chairlift: "Evident Utensil"
Bat For Lashes: "Daniel"
Major Lazer: "Hold The Line"
Passion Pit: "The Reeling"
Matt & Kim: "Lessons Learned"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Heads Will Roll"
BEST VIDEO (THAT SHOULD HAVE WON A MOONMAN)
U2: "Where The Streets Have No Name"
Dr Dre: "Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang"
Beastie Boys: "Sabotage"
Bjork: "Human behavior"
Radiohead: "Karma Police"
George Michael: "Freedom"
Foo Fighters: "Everlong"
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: "Into The Great Wide Open"
OK Go: "Here It Goes Again" (I know it's new school, but those treadmills!)
David Lee Roth: "California Girls"
Actual predictions? Britney will win a lot of shit she doesn't deserve. Yeah, I said it.
i could care less about any of this tontería…
how about they go back to the old days when they played music videos? i think they play like a solid 2 hours of videos a day (and thats in the early morning..). they used to have mtv wake up, mtv hits, direct effect, trl, etc. every single day!
congrats to beyonce in advance for sweeping this foolish award show. (might tune in to see some of the performances though..)
BOO!! Single Ladies for VOY?? No way, best choreography, definitly….but VOY or Best Pop?? pssh, it had no substance to it at all.
VOY should be Womanizer, has a substance, story, and video went perfect with the song.
Best Pop should go to Poker Face, great pop video.
Even though Beyonce deserves to win 5, I say that she will win 3, so 3 can go to Britney, even though she really doesn’t deserve to win any this year, and 1 will go to Gaga, because they’d honestly be fools to shut her out. This is the year of Gaga!
boo! beyonce boo. single ladies is one of the most boring videos ever, not to mention the mediocre song that somewhat managed to become popular in america. and what’s with all the POV here? let people decide on their own.
i’d go with simon cowell on this one – beyonce is seriously overrated.
Womanizer? pssh, Britney should go watch Janet’s “Son of a Gun” video to see how that sort of song and video should go.
i thought i was the only one that thinks beyonce is overrated. i’m soooooo done with her and those pussycat dolls. what ever happened to american music? is it me or does it feel “corporate” and not creative? eh, maybe because i was born in the 70’s, was a teenager in the late 80’s/early 90’s when music had that creative and fresh feel.
Why all the Britney hate? This year she actually does deserve to win a couple awards cuz two of her videos are nominated and both of them are good quality videos. Beyonce’s video is a tad overrated IMO. Hope Britney can get a couple wins, she does deserve them.