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I've lost all respect for...

posted 10 years ago by IMDB_Vits
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... the VMAs. I get why the horrible WRECKING BALL* would be nominated since it was popular, but they usually nominated good videos in the technical categories (which aren't open for public voting). That's why I consider the Best Director category to be more important than Video of the Year**. But WRECKING BALL it's nominated for that too! And also up for Best Director is TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?***. Come on! I haven't been this mad since the 2007 ceremony.

*The song itself is great. It's the video that sucks.
**That's why the nominees for both categories rarely match.
***The video itself is great. It's the song that sucks.

[–] enigma-lake 10 years ago

They've always been bad.

[–] IMDB_Vits 10 years ago

Why?

[–] blaque108 10 years ago

I've lost all respect for these music award shows myself. The same crappy people win and the people that should be nominated or win an award don't.

[–] IMDB_Vits 10 years ago

Such as?

[–] Agnosic 10 years ago

It's expected. The current viewers age demographic for MTV is 12-34 according to MTV's ratings from Nielsen Media. Even with the skeptical source itself I wouldn't doubt for a minute that the general viewing audience consists of a younger crowd. While there's generally in my opinion a video or two of winning material each year, the originality, meaning, and what's defined as "art" by the majority of young society has slowly deteriorated over the years into something almost shameful. A lot of individuals have forgotten what true art really is. I can understand the broadness in my previous sentence being a matter of opinion, but I'm sure we can all agree that swinging on a large ball half naked through the majority of the video while tongue fondling hammers and walls isn't art. It doesn't take much skill, nor talent to make a video like hers. So far "Chandelier" is the only popular music video worth watching from what I've seen. Lots of art, originality, and meaning behind it.

Was there one you saw too clearly? Did they seem too real to you?