Poll: Most undeserved VMA new artist

Stephen

Which recipients of the VMA for Best New Artist do you find unworthy? Who should have won?

1984 Eurythmics — "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
Cyndi Lauper — "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
Cyndi Lauper — "Time After Time"
Madonna — "Borderline"
Wang Chung — "Dance Hall Days"

1985 'Til Tuesday — "Voices Carry"
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — "Two Tribes"
Julian Lennon — "Too Late for Goodbyes"
Sade — "Smooth Operator"
Sheila E. — "The Glamorous Life"

1986 a-ha — "Take on Me"
The Hooters — "And We Danced"
Whitney Houston — "How Will I Know"
Pet Shop Boys — "West End Girls"
Simply Red — "Holding Back the Years"

1987 Crowded House — "Don't Dream It's Over"
Robert Cray — "Smoking Gun"
The Georgia Satellites — "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"
Bruce Hornsby and the Range — "The Way It Is"
Timbuk3 — "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"

1988 Guns N' Roses — "Welcome to the Jungle"
The Godfathers — "Birth, School, Work, Death"
Buster Poindexter — "Hot, Hot, Hot"
Swing Out Sister — "Breakout"
Jody Watley — "Some Kind of Lover"

1989 Living Colour — "Cult of Personality"
Paula Abdul — "Straight Up"
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians — "What I Am"
Neneh Cherry — "Buffalo Stance"

1990 Michael Penn — "No Myth"
Bell Biv DeVoe — "Poison"
The Black Crowes — "Jealous Again"
Jane Child — "Don't Wanna Fall in Love"
Lenny Kravitz — "Let Love Rule"
Alannah Myles — "Black Velvet"
Lisa Stansfield — "All Around the World"

1991 Jesus Jones — "Right Here, Right Now"
C+C Music Factory — "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
Deee-Lite — "Groove Is in the Heart"
Gerardo — "Rico Suave"
Seal — "Crazy"

1992 Nirvana — "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Tori Amos — "Silent All These Years"
Arrested Development — "Tennessee"
Cracker — "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"

1993 Stone Temple Pilots — "Plush"
Tasmin Archer — "Sleeping Satellite"
Belly — "Feed the Tree"
****o for Pyros — "Pets"

1994 Counting Crows — "Mr. Jones"
Beck — "Loser"
Björk — "Human Behaviour"
Green Day — "Longview"
Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories — "Stay (I Missed You)"
Me'Shell NdegéOcello — "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)"

1995 Hootie & the Blowfish — "Hold My Hand"
Jeff Buckley — "Last Goodbye"
Des'ree — "You Gotta Be"
Filter — "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Portishead — "Sour Times (Nobody Loves Me)"

1996 Alanis Morissette — "Ironic"
Tracy Bonham — "Mother Mother"
Garbage — "Stupid Girl"
Jewel — "Who Will Save Your Soul"

1997 Fiona Apple — "Sleep to Dream"
Meredith Brooks — "Bitch"
Hanson — "MMMBop"
Jamiroquai — "Virtual Insanity"
The Wallflowers — "One Headlight"

1998 Natalie Imbruglia — "Torn"
Cherry Poppin' Daddies — "Zoot Suit Riot"
Chumbawamba — "Tubthumping"
Fastball — "The Way"
Mase — "Feel So Good"

1999 Eminem — "My Name Is"
Kid Rock — "Bawitdaba"
Jennifer Lopez — "If You Had My Love"
Orgy — "Blue Monday"

2000 Macy Gray — "I Try"
Christina Aguilera — "What a Girl Wants"
Papa Roach — "Last Resort"
Pink — "There You Go"
Sisqó — "Thong Song"

2001 Alicia Keys — "Fallin'"
Coldplay — "Yellow"
Nikka Costa — "Like a Feather"
David Gray — "Babylon"
Sum 41 — "Fat Lip"

2002 Avril Lavigne — "Complicated"
Ashanti — "Foolish"
B2K — "Uh Huh"
John Mayer — "No Such Thing"
Puddle of Mudd — "Blurry"

2003 50 Cent — "In da Club"
The All-American Rejects — "Swing, Swing"
Kelly Clarkson — "Miss Independent"
Evanescence (featuring Paul McCoy) — "Bring Me to Life"
Sean Paul — "Get Busy"
Simple Plan — "Addicted"

2004 Maroon 5 — "This Love"
The Darkness — "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
Jet — "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
JoJo — "Leave (Get Out)"
Kanye West (featuring Syleena Johnson) — "All Falls Down"
Yellowcard — "Ocean Avenue"

2005 The Killers — "Mr. Brightside"
Ciara (featuring Missy Elliott) — "1,2 Step"
The Game — "Dreams"
John Legend — "Ordinary People"
My Chemical Romance — "Helena"

2006 Avenged Sevenfold — "Bat Country"
Angels & Airwaves — "The Adventure"
James Blunt — "You're Beautiful"
Chris Brown (featuring Juelz Santana) — "Run It!"
Panic! at the Disco — "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
Rihanna — "SOS"

2007 Gym Class Heroes
Lily Allen
Peter Bjorn and John
Carrie Underwood
Amy Winehouse

2008 Tokio Hotel — "Ready, Set, Go!"
Miley Cyrus — "7 Things"
Katy Perry — "I Kissed a Girl"
Jordin Sparks (featuring Chris Brown) — "No Air"
Taylor Swift — "Teardrops on My Guitar"

2009 Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"
3OH!3 — "Don't Trust Me"
Drake — "Best I Ever Had"
Kid Cudi — "Day 'n' Nite"
Asher Roth — "I Love College"

2010 Justin Bieber (featuring Ludacris) — "Baby"
Broken Bells — "The Ghost Inside"
Jason Derülo — "In My Head"
Ke$ha — "Tik Tok"
Nicki Minaj (featuring Sean Garrett) — "Massive Attack"

2011 Tyler, the Creator — "Yonkers"
Big Sean (featuring Chris Brown) — "My Last"
Foster the People — "Pumped Up Kicks"
Kreayshawn — "Gucci Gucci"
Wiz Khalifa — "Black and Yellow"

Duca

Tokio Hotel.

ethan

Aside from the people from the 80's that I have never heard of and therefore cannot judge, probably Tokio Hotel

Literally any one of the other artists would have been better.

z10

2007 - Amy should have got it.

jokermusic

the 2006 winners..........over chris brown and rihanna and james blunt( that song was huge).....and WHO are they

EUPHORIA$

2006 - Avenged Sevenfold - Over Chris Brown and Rihanna

2010 - Justin Bieber

Ke$ha was robbed

Underdogs

2000 Macy Gray — "I Try"

P!nk should've won. If her not, Xtina. No one else is acceptable.

jokermusic

and tokio hotel over taylor and katy like WTFFFFF

Callum

tokio hotel & gym class heroes

Jabril

Probably Tokio Hotel. They have a pretty big fanbase though.

Quiqui4eva

a-Ha

Loghen

Tyler, The Creator.

Andre

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2007 Gym Class Heroes
Lily Allen
Peter Bjorn and John
Carrie Underwood
Amy Winehouse

The Amy/Lily snub.

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2000 Macy Gray — "I Try"
Christina Aguilera — "What a Girl Wants"
Papa Roach — "Last Resort"
Pink — "There You Go"
Sisqó — "Thong Song"

The xtina snub.

EDIT:
Lady Gaga (2009) 1 vote
TheBritneySpears

Stephen

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2007 Gym Class Heroes
Lily Allen
Peter Bjorn and John
Carrie Underwood
Amy Winehouse

andresg770

How people could've voted for Eurythmics, 'Til Tuesday, a-ha, and even Crowded House is just...

Just because some of them didn't have much later success doesn't mean that they were undeserving of the award. "Don't Dream It's Over" is a classic, and "Voices Carry is a terribly underrated song. Eurythmics was as good as Madonna and Cyndi in terms of artistry, and a-ha left us with arguably one of the best videos of all time.

Katamari

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Originally posted by Quiqui4eva

a-Ha

gurl bye

Katamari

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Originally posted by andresg770

How people could've voted for Eurythmics, 'Til Tuesday, a-ha, and even Crowded House is just...

Just because some of them didn't have much later success doesn't mean that they were undeserving of the award. "Don't Dream It's Over" is a classic, and "Voices Carry is a terribly underrated song. Eurythmics was as good as Madonna and Cyndi in terms of artistry, and a-ha left us with arguably one of the best videos of all time.

yes

Squall

Tokio Hotel...

Katamari

and I chose Tokio Hotel

Katy should have got that one

Jabril

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Originally posted by Quiqui4eva

a-Ha

WHAT! Take On Me is a classic! And the video is one of the best of all-time.