Monday 31 July 2000

"Heartbreaker" should have gotten an video nomination

The MTV video nominations snubbed some of the year's best. No Doubt, TLC, and even the much maligned Mariah Carey deserve a nod, says Kristen Baldwin. Last week, MTV announced its nominations for the 17th annual Video Music Awards, and as usual the list included the good (Toni Braxton's "He Wasn't Man Enough" for Best Female Video), the bad (six nominations for nasty knucklehead Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady"), and the inevitable (Britney! Britney! Britney!).

Of course, there were some puzzling nominations as well: Since when is Ricky Martin's glorified performance clip for "Shake Your Bon Bon" one of the year's Best Male Videos? And the ass-crack fest that is Sisqo's "Thong Song" video - does that really merit nominations in the Hip-Hop, Dance, New Artist, Viewers' Choice, and Best Video from a Film categories? The most disturbing part of the nominations, as always, were the videos that were overlooked by my fellow voters.

Normally, Mariah Carey's videos make me want to gouge my eyes out, but this candy colored clip - featuring a Mariah on Mariah catfight, a "Grease" inspired cartoon, and an irrepressibly catchy rap interlude from Jay-Z (truly the best part of the whole song) - was arguably Ms. Carey's finest ever. The worst part is, since she didn't score any nominations, Mariah may not even show up at the VMAs, and that'll deprive viewers the pleasure of making fun of her sure to be supertrashy outfit.

(Entertainment Weekly)



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