Posted August 28, 20168 yr http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-MTV-Video-Music-Awards.png Yes it's tonight! Starts at 9 PM EST / 2 AM UK time. Post all predictions, discussions, and reactions here :D I'll start by pointing out there's no nominations for Taylor Swift :o Performances: Rihanna - Medley Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj - "Side to Side" Beyoncé - TBA Britney Spears & G-Eazy - "Make Me..." The Chainsmokers & Halsey - "Closer" Future - TBA Nick Jonas & Ty Dolla $ign - "Bacon" Nominees: Video of the Year Adele — "Hello" Beyoncé — "Formation" Justin Bieber — "Sorry" Drake — "Hotline Bling" Kanye West — "Famous" Best Male Video Drake — "Hotline Bling" Calvin Harris (featuring Rihanna) — "This Is What You Came For" Bryson Tiller — "Don't" The Weeknd — "Can't Feel My Face" Kanye West — "Famous" Best Female Video Adele — "Hello" Beyoncé — "Hold Up" Ariana Grande — "Into You" Rihanna (featuring Drake) — "Work" Sia — "Cheap Thrills" Best New Artist Desiigner DNCE Zara Larsson Lukas Graham Bryson Tiller Best Pop Video Adele — "Hello" Beyoncé — "Formation" Justin Bieber — "Sorry" Alessia Cara — "Wild Things" Ariana Grande — "Into You" Best Rock Video All Time Low — "Missing You" Coldplay — "Adventure of a Lifetime" Fall Out Boy (featuring Demi Lovato) — "Irresistible" Panic! at the Disco — "Victorious" Twenty One Pilots — "Heathens" Best Hip-Hop Video 2 Chainz — "Watch Out" Chance the Rapper (featuring Saba) — "Angels" Desiigner — "Panda" Drake — "Hotline Bling" Bryson Tiller — "Don't" Best Electronic Video 99 Souls (featuring Destiny's Child and Brandy) — "The Girl Is Mine" Afrojack — "SummerThing!" The Chainsmokers (featuring Daya) — "Don't Let Me Down" Calvin Harris and Disciples — "How Deep Is Your Love" Mike Posner — "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" Best Collaboration Video Beyoncé (featuring Kendrick Lamar) — "Freedom" Fifth Harmony (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) — "Work from Home" Ariana Grande (featuring Lil Wayne) — "Let Me Love You" Calvin Harris (featuring Rihanna) — "This Is What You Came For" Rihanna (featuring Drake) — "Work" Breakthrough Long Form Video Beyoncé — Lemonade Justin Bieber — Purpose: The Movement Chris Brown — Royalty Florence + The Machine — The Odyssey Troye Sivan — Blue Neighbourhood Trilogy Best Direction Adele — "Hello" (Director: Xavier Dolan) Beyoncé — "Formation" (Director: Melina Matsoukas) David Bowie — "Lazarus" (Director: Johan Renck) Coldplay — "Up&Up" (Directors: Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia) Tame Impala — "The Less I Know the Better" (Director: Canada) Best Choreography Beyoncé — "Formation" (Choreographers: Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight and Dana Foglia) Beyoncé — "Sorry" (Choreographers: Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight, Dana Foglia, Anthony Burrell & Beyoncé Knowles Carter) Missy Elliott (featuring Pharrell) — "WTF (Where They From)" (Choreographer: Hi-Hat) FKA Twigs — M3LL155X (Choreographer: Aaron Sillis, Benjamin Milan, Kenrick Sandy and FKA Twigs) Florence + The Machine — "Delilah" (Choreographer: Holly Blakey) Best Visual Effects Adele — "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" (Visual Effects: Jonathan Box and MPC) Coldplay — "Up&Up" (Visual Effects: Vania Heymann and GloriaFX) FKA Twigs — M3LL155X (Visual Effects: Lewis Saunders and Jihoon Yoo) The Weeknd — "Can't Feel My Face" (Visual Effects: Louis Mackall and T.J. Burke) Zayn — "Pillowtalk" (Visual Effects: David Smith) Best Art Direction Adele — "Hello" (Art Director: Colombe Raby) Beyoncé — "Hold Up" (Art Director: Jason Hougaard) David Bowie — "Blackstar" (Art Director: Jan Houllevigue) Drake — "Hotline Bling" (Art Director: Jeremy MacFarlane) Fergie — "M.I.L.F. $" (Art Director: Alexander Delgado) Best Editing Adele — "Hello" (Editor: Xavier Dolan) Beyoncé — "Formation" (Editor: Jeff Selis) David Bowie — "Lazarus" (Editor: Johan Söderberg) Fergie — "M.I.L.F. $" (Editor: Vinnie Hobbs) Ariana Grande — "Into You" (Editor: Hannah Lux Davis) Best Cinematography Adele — "Hello" (Director of Photography: André Turpin) Alesso — "I Wanna Know" (Director of Photography: Corey Jennings) Beyoncé — "Formation" (Director of Photography: Malik Sayeed) David Bowie — "Lazarus" (Director of Photography: Crille Forsberg) Ariana Grande — "Into You" (Director of Photography: Paul Laufer) Song of Summer The Chainsmokers (featuring Halsey) — "Closer" Drake (featuring Kyla and Wizkid) — "One Dance" Fifth Harmony (featuring Fetty Wap) — "All in My Head (Flex)" Selena Gomez — "Kill Em with Kindness" Calvin Harris (featuring Rihanna) — "This Is What You Came For" Nick Jonas (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) — "Bacon" Kent Jones — "Don't Mind" Major Lazer (featuring Justin Bieber and MØ) — "Cold Water" Sia — "Cheap Thrills" Justin Timberlake — "Can't Stop the Feeling!" Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award Rihanna
August 28, 20168 yr This is of course the VMAs so I'm not even gonna try make sense of 'Sorry' and 'Formation' being up for Video of the Year when they've both been excluded from the gender categories. And I didn't know the choreographed video to 'Sorry' was ever its official music video but there you go. Oh and it's not even up for Best Choreography (!)...so what exactly made the 'Sorry' video so special, VMAs? :thinking: Bank Holiday Monday means I'll be able to stay up and watch this like in my student days, yay. Not really hyped for anything but the performances should be worth watching, Beyoncé and the Rihanna medley especially. Edited August 28, 20168 yr by Noahspike
August 28, 20168 yr MTV have it on at 8pm on Monday night. If you wanna watch it live, you have to try and stream it.
August 28, 20168 yr Video of the Year WANT: Beyoncé — "Formation" THINK: Beyoncé — "Formation" Best Male Video WANT: Drake — "Hotline Bling" THINK: Kanye West — "Famous" Best Female Video WANT: Ariana Grande — "Into You" THINK: Rihanna feat. Drake - Work" Best New Artist WANT: Zara Larsson THINK: DNCE Best Pop Video WANT: Ariana Grande — "Into You" THINK: Beyoncé — "Formation" Best Rock Video WANT: Twenty One Pilots — "Heathens" >> This should've been given a nomination in the "Video Of The Year" category! << THINK: Coldplay — "Adventure of a Lifetime" Best Hip-Hop Video WANT: Bryson Tiller — "Don't" THINK: Drake — "Hotline Bling" Best Electronic Video WANT: The Chainsmokers (featuring Daya) — "Don't Let Me Down" THINK: Calvin Harris and Disciples — "How Deep Is Your Love" >> This feels like it's WELL old though! :\ << Best Collaboration Video WANT: Fifth Harmony (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) — "Work from Home" THINK: Beyoncé (featuring Kendrick Lamar) — "Freedom" Breakthrough Long Form Video >> So basically, the "we want to give Beyoncé as much credit and wins as possible" award? << WANT: Troye Sivan — Blue Neighbourhood Trilogy THINK: Beyoncé — Lemonade Best Direction WANT: Adele — "Hello" (Director: Xavier Dolan) THINK: Beyoncé — "Formation" (Director: Melina Matsoukas) >> Although this would be a worthy winner in all fairness! << Best Choreography WANT: FKA Twigs — M3LL155X (Choreographer: Aaron Sillis, Benjamin Milan, Kenrick Sandy and FKA Twigs) THINK: Beyoncé — "Formation" (Choreographers: Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight and Dana Foglia) Best Visual Effects WANT: The Weeknd — "Can't Feel My Face" (Visual Effects: Louis Mackall and T.J. Burke) THINK: Adele — "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" (Visual Effects: Jonathan Box and MPC) Best Art Direction WANT: Fergie — "M.I.L.F. $" (Art Director: Alexander Delgado) THINK: Beyoncé — "Hold Up" (Art Director: Jason Hougaard) Best Editing WANT: Fergie — "M.I.L.F. $" (Editor: Vinnie Hobbs) THINK: Adele — "Hello" (Editor: Xavier Dolan) Best Cinematography WANT: Adele — "Hello" (Director of Photography: André Turpin) THINK: Adele — "Hello" (Director of Photography: André Turpin) Song of Summer >> Is This Fan voted? << WANT: Justin Timberlake — "Can't Stop the Feeling!" If it IS Fan Voted: THINK: Fifth Harmony (featuring Fetty Wap) — "All in My Head (Flex)" If it's NOT Fan Voted: THINK: The Chainsmokers (featuring Halsey) — "Closer" >> Due to how recent it is! << --- A lot of the nominated videos seem so lackluster this year! I swear there were better videos that could've been nominated, but of course they weren't really very big hits so... (which always peeves me off about the nominations for the Video Music Awards! :lol:) Should be a good year for performances. Really hoping Britney manages to deliver!
August 28, 20168 yr I've not really paid attention to these awards in the past, other than all the controversies that have occurred, but so many of those nominations are a joke, as has already been said. Rihanna walking around in an LED box deserves a nomination over 'Runnin (Lose It All)' because one was a hit and the other wasn't in the US? Is 'Famous' nominated because of it's quality or the fact that it created controversy by having naked famous people in it?
August 28, 20168 yr i'm probably going to stream this on rabb.it providing i find a working link! (which should actually be easier seeing as rabb.it uses US servers :'))
August 28, 20168 yr There's a rumour that Lady Gaga will be performing 'Perfect Illusion' as a surprise performance tonight. Excited!
August 28, 20168 yr Does anyone have a good stream as we can't find one? Also what are the UK timings for when Pre-Show and actual show start!
August 29, 20168 yr Author I've not really paid attention to these awards in the past, other than all the controversies that have occurred, but so many of those nominations are a joke, as has already been said. Rihanna walking around in an LED box deserves a nomination over 'Runnin (Lose It All)' because one was a hit and the other wasn't in the US? Is 'Famous' nominated because of it's quality or the fact that it created controversy by having naked famous people in it?Yeah, happens every year :') It almost doesn't matter who's nominated because most of the awards are fan-voted so the winner is just who has the biggest fans. Knowing Justin Bieber's track record I'd guess he's a shoo-in for Video of the Year for 'Sorry' which I also didn't think was an official video. Good choreography sure, but hardly deserving of that honor IMO! I'd love to see someone else take it by surprise, especially Beyonce.
August 29, 20168 yr Author Can someone get rid of these random Twitter people and hire a real host? :\
August 29, 20168 yr Can someone get rid of these random Twitter people and hire a real host? :\ Was just thinking this! Omg this is horrendous!
August 29, 20168 yr Author I wanted 'Into You' to get a VMA performance (and iTunes boost) but was NOT expecting 'Side To Side' to be a jam and a half *.*
August 29, 20168 yr First time hearing 'Side To Side' and immediately want to replay that performance. Ariana once again excelling with the post-album jams. :music: Terrible TERRIBLE hosts. Who TF thought they would be a good idea? The finance department.
August 29, 20168 yr That performance was so boring...looks like Beyonce will save this night!! You spelled Britney wrong x
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