We’ve got the official MTV VMA nominations list, up next.

Hey everyone! Thanks for coming back to ClevverTV. I’m Dana Ward and I’m saying, let’s jump right into this official nominee list for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. If we’re giving a winner based on the number of nods, the 2010 victor is Lady Gaga. She earned 13 nominations – and she is the first artist to ever receive two nods in the Vid of the Year category… meanwhile Eminem got runner-up this year with 8 nominations. There were even some first-time VMA-ers including Justin Bieber for Best New Artist, Ke$ha for Best New Artist, Best Female Vid and Best Pop Video, Drake in the Best Male Video and Best Hip Hop Vid Categories, B.o.B. for Best Male Video, Best Collaboration, Best Pop Video, Best Hip Hop Video and Video of the Year. Also first timers, Florence + The Machine got 4 nods while Mumford and Sons got a nomination too. Beyonce gets some creds because her work with Gaga – in Video Phone and Telephone – got noticed. A few other artists mixed in there include Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Jason Derulo, Usher, Pink, Paramore, Muse, Rihanna and more.

In addition to the normal BEST OF categories in hip hop, pop, rock, dance as well as the behind-the-scenes special effects, editing, direction, cinematography, choreography and art direction, Best New Artist, Best Female Video and Best Male Video are some of the coveted trophies. But, of course, Video of the Year is the hottest win of VMAs. This 2010 MTV round includes Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance, Florence + The Machine’s Dog Days Are Over, 30 Seconds to Mars’ Kings and Queens, Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce and Telephone as well as Eminem’s Not Afraid and B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams and Airplanes. Since that’s the big ticket item for the awards show, which music video do you think will go down in history as the 2010 MTV VMA Video of the Year? Tweet us right now @ClevverTV with your winner, plus, be sure to click follow over there on our Twitter page. We’ll continue to keep you posted on everything VMA and other music news. But don’t forget to set your tivos for the MTV awards show – it airs live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on September 12th at 9pm. I’m Dana Ward, thanks for watching the show, bye!

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People work to make money. For musicians, that’s the bottom line, although I imagine most of them also enjoy their work. While people that pirate music may be exposed to music they wouldn’t listen to otherwise, it doesn’t actually help the musician unless they buy a CD, T-shirt, or attend a concert. And if someone has already downloaded a CD, then they have no reason to buy it, so the musician is only helped by T-shirt and concert ticket sales.

Ideally, you’d download a few songs to see if a CD is worth buying, and buy it if it is good. If everyone downloaded songs illegally, then musicians have no incentive to produce more music. By pirating music, or video games, or any other media, you’re harming the creators of that media. Don’t kill the stuff you love; if you enjoy it enough, go buy a copy of the CD or video game.

star this question if you dislike MTV

Well, The White Stripes have remained cool, after being played a thousand times on MTV. What you’re saying is just a myth.

I mean, take a look at The Cure. 30 years in the business. Fashions came and went. MTV began. And they have remained THE SAME.

Of course, I agree with you about the Rihanna thing. Still, we have to remember she came up from nowhere. It’s not like if she was a rich girl who bought MTV, she earned it. If she later became lame (rhyme!), well that’s just sad, my friend.

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Has MTV taken the music out of musicians and made them little packages for our consumption? Seriuosly, hardly anybody even plays an instrument.

that happened years ago! that’s why it shouldn’t be called mtv anymore

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