2004 MTV Video Music Awards Nominees

[Dogbert 0]

Because when crap like this is the stuff that's up for awards, then you know the downward spiral is starting to get out of control.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

I find Jay Z getting nominated for numerous awards to be less alarming then when Backstreet Boys, Spears, and NSync were battling out 3 years ago.

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

I find Jay Z getting nominated for numerous awards to be less alarming then when Backstreet Boys, Spears, and NSync were battling out 3 years ago.

Jay Z I have no problem with, as I personally think he's quite superior to most MTV rap they play--espically the overpimped Eminem. But look at the best group video......

 

Best Group Video

No Doubt, "It's My Life"

D12, "My Band"

Hoobastank, "The Reason"

Maroon 5, "This Love"

Good Charlotte, "Hold On"

 

 

Sigh..... My Band will win it--which is the worst single of the past 20 years.....

[Art Sandusky 0]

You people do realize it's the videos being nominated and not the songs, correct.

[Guest combat_rock]

I have to admit that from a purely video standpoint, there are some intriguing choices. Actually, the music isn't too bad, if not my cup of tea. The only really weird thing is the White Stripes being nominated for the breakthrough award. I mean, haven't they already been "through" for a while now?

[Black Lushus 0]

You people do realize it's the videos being nominated and not the songs, correct.

to further add to this, you people also realize this IS mtv we're talking about here? why act so surprised about what videos get nominated year after year? someone mentioned BSB, Nsync and Britney being all over the awards a few years back...well DUH, they WERE the hottest thing going at the time, why be surprised that that would happen?

[Guest Dids]

Considering that "Yeah" video by Usher/Lil' John features one of the most repetative, overused, tired, old, boring gimmicks for a hip hop video, you have to wonder if it would have been given any more then a blip on the radar screen if it hadn't been for Dave Chapelle's Lil' clips.

You're a very, very white person aren't you?

 

That song bumps- and thinking that Dave Chapelle has ANYTHING to do with Lil Jon's sucess means you just don't understand hip-hop music.

[Guest Dids]

Sigh..... My Band will win it--which is the worst single of the past 20 years.....

Your taste in music has AIDS.

[Black Lushus 0]

My Band is actually a pretty catchy tune and a somewhat funny video...no way in hell is that the worse single of the past 20 years...you seem to be forgetting avril lavinge...

 

and yeah, going with Dids, Lil Jon's been hot for quite a few years now with songs like Get Low and Bia Bia...Dave Chappelle had nothing to do with that, he was just dogging on him because of how succesful he was at the time as most sketch comedies do...

 

EDIT: in fact, and I may be wrong, but I believe the first couple of Lil Jon sketches aired BEFORE Yeah came out...

[Art Sandusky 0]

"Put Your Hood Up" was my first experience with Lil' Jon back in late 2001/early 2002. Awesome stuff.

[NoCalMike 0]

Considering that "Yeah" video by Usher/Lil' John features one of the most repetative, overused, tired, old, boring gimmicks for a hip hop video, you have to wonder if it would have been given any more then a blip on the radar screen if it hadn't been for Dave Chapelle's Lil' clips.

You're a very, very white person aren't you?

 

That song bumps- and thinking that Dave Chapelle has ANYTHING to do with Lil Jon's sucess means you just don't understand hip-hop music.

Obviously I am not referring to the song itself, rather the video. The video consists of guys riding around in a car and dancing in a club with lots of bright colorful lights going on in the backround.........Sounds like the same fucking video I have had to witness over the past ten years. There is nothing "Best" about it, except maybe "Best imitation of the last guy who did this same exact gimmick for a video" category.

 

Oh and for the record at best Lil' John deserves only to be thrown in the "Funny because it's not supposed to be funny" genre of rap, where every song is basically about the same two or three subjects, has about two lines of lyrics repeated over and over again, and features a bunch of , "yeaaaaaaaaaaahs" and "okaaaaaaaays" over and over enough to make the entire album mundane halfway through track 2. Like I said, Funny stuff, but mainly because he thinks people are supposed to take him serious as an artist rather then the comedy act he is.

[Art Sandusky 0]

It's awesome hype music, you can't deny that.

[NoCalMike 0]

It's awesome hype music, you can't deny that.

I will concede to that. Like I said, what little I have heard, I almost have to enjoy for the sheer comedic factor to the music, but never would I take the guy serious as an "artist" It is just generic dance club/100,000 watt stereo music.

[Black Lushus 0]

i will tell you this, NoCal, not sure how often you hit the dance club scene, but nothing gets the bitches out on the dance floor faster than Get Low or Salt Shaker, both Lil Jon produced songs...as goofy as the dude is, he knows how to get chicks to dance...

[Art Sandusky 0]

And how to get people ready to kick ass.

[Guest Dids]

Mike isn't sharp enough to realize that Lil' Jon isn't ever a rapper. He makes the beats dude... and producers are always yelling over their tracks. He's just louder than Pete Rock and Puffy were.

[NoCalMike 0]

Mike isn't sharp enough to realize that Lil' Jon isn't ever a rapper. He makes the beats dude... and producers are always yelling over their tracks.

.....wow, producers yelling over the beats....another totally original concept

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

"Put Your Hood Up" was my first experience with Lil' Jon back in late 2001/early 2002. Awesome stuff.

Quite the choice Lil Jon song..... I first got my Lil Jon cherry popped in 99/2000ish with Bia Bia

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

I donb't think I've ever heard a Lil Jon song, and I am rather happy about that. I can avoid shit. I've never heard it, yet I know its shit. I have that innate physic genius.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Only two of those videos are actually good, I think: Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and Kanye West's "All Falls Down." That I happen to like both songs is a plus; usually, unless the video is really well done/creative/etc., no matter how good the song attached to it is, I can't stand it.

[Guest Dids]

I actually think the Hoobastank video is entertaining. If only because it's a like a very short crime film.

 

99 Problems is A- a fantastic song and B- a cool vidoe.

 

"All Falls Down" is both of the same, plus it has Stacy Dash!!

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

Mike isn't sharp enough to realize that Lil' Jon isn't ever a rapper. He makes the beats dude... and producers are always yelling over their tracks. He's just louder than Pete Rock and Puffy were.

He's like a hype man/producer hybrid. Still no Flava Flav though...

 

For "Best Group Video", my pick is No Doubt. I just dig that vid.

[CBright7831 0]

Here we are, 30 days later.

[alfdogg 0]

Wonderful contribution.

 

Especially when it was acutally 29 days later.

[CanadianChick 0]

Can someone do quick results?

[Guest HungryJack]

Lil Jon's crowning achievement is "Throw it Up" which uses the score from Requiem for a Dream. It's ridiculously awesome.

[CBright7831 0]

Here are your winners.

 

Video Of The Year

Outkast, "Hey Ya!"

Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris, "Yeah!"

Britney Spears, "Toxic"

D12, "My Band"

Jay-Z, "99 Problems"

 

Best Male Video

Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris, "Yeah!"

Jay-Z, "99 Problems"

Justin Timberlake, "Senorita"

Kanye West featuring Syleena Johnson, "All Falls Down"

Prince, "Musicology"

 

Best Female Video

Britney Spears, "Toxic"

Beyoncé, "Naughty Girl"

Alicia Keys, "If I Ain't Got You"

Jessica Simpson, "With You"

Christina Aguilera, "The Voice Within"

 

Best Group Video

No Doubt, "It's My Life"

D12, "My Band"

Hoobastank, "The Reason"

Maroon 5, "This Love"

Good Charlotte, "Hold On"

 

Best Rap Video

Jay-Z, "99 Problems"

D12, "My Band"

50 Cent featuring Snoop Dogg & G-Unit, "P.I.M.P." Remix

Ludacris, "Stand Up"

Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins, "Get Low"

 

Best R&B Video

Usher, "Burn"

Alicia Keys, "If I Ain't Got You"

Brandy featuring Kanye West, "Talk About Our Love"

Beyoncé, "Me, Myself and I"

R. Kelly, "Step in the Name of Love"

 

Best Hip-Hop Video

Outkast, "Hey Ya!"

Black Eyed Peas, "Hey Mama"

Kanye West featuring Syleena Johnson, "All Falls Down"

Nelly featuring P. Diddy and Murphy Lee, "Shake Ya Tailfeather"

Chingy featuring Ludacris and Snoop Dogg, "Holidae In"

 

Best Dance Video

Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris, "Yeah!"

Black Eyed Peas, "Hey Mama"

Beyoncé, "Naughty Girl"

Britney Spears, "Toxic"

Missy Elliott, "I'm Really Hot"

 

Best Rock Video

Jet, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

The Darkness, "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"

Hoobastank, "The Reason"

Evanescence, "My Immortal"

Linkin Park, "Breaking the Habit"

 

Best Pop Video

Britney Spears, "Toxic"

Jessica Simpson, "With You"

Hilary Duff, "Come Clean"

No Doubt, "It's My Life"

Avril Lavigne, "Don't Tell Me"

 

Best New Artist In A Video

Jet, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

Maroon 5, "This Love"

JoJo, "Leave (Get Out)"

Kanye West featuring Syleena Johnson, "All Falls Down"

Yellowcard, "Ocean Avenue"

The Darkness, "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"

 

MTV2 Award

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Maps"

Elephant Man, "Pon De River"

Yellowcard, "Ocean Avenue"

Twista featuring Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, "Slow Jamz"

Franz Ferdinand, "Take Me Out"

Modest Mouse, "Float On"

 

Best Choreography In A Video

Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris, "Yeah!"

Black Eyed Peas, "Hey Mama"

Missy Elliott, "I'm Really Hot"

Beyoncé, "Naughty Girl"

Sean Paul, "Like Glue"

 

Breakthrough Video

Franz Ferdinand, "Take Me Out"

Modest Mouse, "Float On"

Kanye West featuring Syleena Johnson, "All Falls Down"

New Found Glory, "All Downhill From Here"

 

White Stripes, "The Hardest Button to Button"

Steriogram, "Walkie Talkie Man"

 

Best Direction In A Video

Jay-Z, "99 Problems" (Director: Mark Romanek)

No Doubt, "It's My Life" (Director: David LaChapelle)

Outkast, "Hey Ya!" (Director: Bryan Barber)

White Stripes, "The Hardest Button to Button" (Director: Michel Gondry)

Steriogram, "Walkie Talkie Man" (Director: Michel Gondry)

 

Best Special Effects In A Video

Incubus, "Megalomaniac"

Outkast, "Hey Ya!"

White Stripes, "The Hardest Button to Button"

Modest Mouse, "Float On"

Steriogram, "Walkie Talkie Man"

 

Best Art Direction In A Video

Steriogram, "Walkie Talkie Man"

No Doubt, "It's My Life"

Outkast, "Hey Ya!"

Alicia Keys, "You Don't Know My Name"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Maps"

 

Best Editing In A Video

Jay-Z, "99 Problems"

White Stripes, "The Hardest Button to Button"

Jet, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

Simple Plan, "Perfect"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Maps"

 

Best Cinematography In A Video

Jay-Z, "99 Problems"

No Doubt, "It's My Life"

Beyoncé, "Naughty Girl"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Maps"

Christina Aguilera, "The Voice Within"

 

Viewer's Choice Award

Christina Aguilera, "The Voice Within"

Good Charlotte, "Hold On"

Linkin Park, "Breaking The Habit"

Simple Plan, "Perfect"

Yellowcard, "Ocean Avenue"

 

And there are your winners.

 

Pretty horrible show all around. Nothing big happened like in years past (Britney-Madonna kiss, Eminem going off on Triumph, Michael Jackson's surprise appearance, etc.), and the only reason they moved it to Miami this year is because of the goddamn Republican National Convention.

 

Many noticeable faces were missing this year (not saying I like some of these artists): Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Eminem (who's teaser for his fourth album came on aftert he first segment), Maroon 5, half of Linkin Park, 50 Cent, Evanescence, Snoop Dogg, among others.