We're still over an hour away from MTV's Video Music Award reveal, scheduled to go down live on TRL. Is that thing still hosted by Jesse Camp? OK, we're a bit out of touch when it comes to MTV (though not Lauren Conrad, strangely). But we do know a few things. No one will win "Best Post Modern Video." Bette Midler will not host. And the show will be broadcast but once. (After that, we'll have to settle for watching highlights on every blog and video-sharing network.) So yeah, a lot like last year. Except in Vegas.
As you can tell from the post title, we're trying to stick out of the pack of sad music bloggers by inventing nominees before they're even announced. Who else? You tell us. Hmm. That sexy umbrella commercial is pretty popular.
Now we present 22 years in the history of Video Of The Year. If a banned clip can end up winning top honors, maybe there's hope for a Tay Zonday upset after all!
1984The Cars - "You Might Think"
1985Don Henley - "The Boys of Summer"
1986Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"
1987Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer"
1988INXS - "Need You Tonight/Mediate"
1989Neil Young - "This Note's for You"
1990Sinéad O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
1991R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"
1992Van Halen - "Right Now"
1993Pearl Jam - "Jeremy"
1994Aerosmith - "Cryin'"
1995TLC - "Waterfalls"
1996The Smashing Pumpkins - "Tonight, Tonight"
1997Jamiroquai - "Virtual Insanity"
1998Madonna - "Ray of Light"
1999Lauryn Hill - "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
2000Eminem - "The Real Slim Shady"
2001Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink - "Lady Marmalade"
2002Eminem - "Without Me"
2003Missy Elliott - "Work It"
2004OutKast - "Hey Ya!"
2005Green Day - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
2006Panic! At The Disco - "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
