![]() ![]() The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards will air on September 13, 2009. Viewers can vote for their favorite nominees by visiting. Katy Perry, Ne-Yo and "Gossip Girl's" Chace Crawford are confirmed presenters VIEW THE PHOTOS: 2008 MTV Video Music AwardsĪs previously announced, Russell Brand will host and Green Day, Pink, Taylor Swift and Muse are set to perform. Jay-Z, Green Day, Eminem, Kanye West and Coldplay also scored multiple nominations and Wisin Y Yandel, 3OH!3, rappers Drake and Asher Roth and rockers Kings of Leon are some of this year's the first time nominees.Īs previously reported on, Britney Spears earned an impressive seven combined nominations for "Womanizer" and "Circus." Thank you MTV for being our video flagship, and for supporting this bunch of inspired kids, who love to get wasted and make art, together." All you need is a camcorder, a flashlight, and one truly GREAT idea. "We believe in the immensity and the promise of 'showbiz' and will continue to give it mouth-to-mouth, till its vomiting return. "After years of hustle in New York City, where we made our art videos in bars, myself and the Haus of Gaga are honored to receive 9 nominations for the 2009 VMAs," Lady Gaga and the Haus said in statement. VIEW THE PHOTOS: We Like What We See Of Beyonce! Newcomer Lady Gaga was also humbled by her nine VMA nominations. It's beautiful to feel you touch people and bring a song to life with a video." "I've spent so much time watching all the great versions people created all around the world. I've been blessed this year to have 'Single Ladies' become a video people really connected with and responded to," Beyonce said in a statement. "I'm excited and honored to be tied for most nominated for the VMAs. VIEW THE PHOTOS: The Fierce & Fabulous Lady GaGa Gaga literally crucified herself on stage to tell the world this-and stop it.Ĭhristopher Rosa is the entertainment staff writer at Glamour.MTV announced the nominees for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday and the ladies of music lead the pack of Moon Man hopefuls.īeyonce earned nine nominations for "Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It)" and Lady Gaga earned a combined nine for "Poker Face" and "Paparazzi." It was armor for scrutinized women: a song that simultaneously showed what was happening to them and what could happen if the media's attitude didn't change. With The Fame and, more specifically, "Paparazzi," Gaga stood with these women before anyone else did-before society caught up. To me, Lady Gaga absolutely had something to do with this shift. ![]() We've moved into a kinder, more empathetic space. Instead of mocking her addiction, the response has been overwhelmingly supportive. Look at the reaction to Demi Lovato's recent relapse and hospitalization. Thankfully, our culture's come along way since 2008. Gaga clocked this phenomenon in her own subversive way-and showed just how sinister it truly is. Back then the world delighted in seeing famous women have it all, lose it all, and claw their way back to the top. In many ways the public could be perceived as having destroyed her just to raise her up again-something they've done in various ways to artists like Courtney Love, Madonna, and the late Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. It was a sharp turn that felt to me as if people didn't really care about Spears: They just wanted to watch her life play out like a movie. A cleaned-up appearance at the 2008 VMAs and new album, Circus, rehabilitated her image, and the same gossip sites that were hungry for her failure seven months prior were now her biggest champions. This is more or less an exaggerated version of what happened to Spears. ![]() As a result, Gaga becomes paralyzed from the waist down, leading newspapers to declare she's "hit rock bottom" and her career is "over." She redeems herself in the end by killing her boyfriend: a drastic act that prompts those same papers to declare, "We love her again!" She did the same thing with the music video for "Paparazzi." It kicks off with her fictional boyfriend, played by actor Alexander Skarsgård, throwing her off a balcony right in front of photographers, who gleefully document the incident. But you couldn't dismiss the image of Gaga bleeding on stage: It shed a light on how terrifying that behavior actually is-and where it can lead. "Well, they asked for it" was a common way to dismiss it. In 2009 few batted an eye at the frenzied and rabid way photographers treated celebrity women. The image of a swarm of male photographers chasing after Lohan in some kind of modern witch hunt is just as disturbing and graphic as Gaga's rehearsed downfall at the VMAs. No, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan weren't killed in the literal sense, but the scrutiny Gaga illuminated here is what they experienced. It's a pretty on-the-nose metaphor for what was happening in Hollywood at that period. ![]()
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