Celeb News: Conspiracy against Lady Gaga at the VMAs?

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Conspiracy against Lady Gaga at the VMAs?

There's something wacky about the MTV Video Music Awards: Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" isn't nominated for the VMA video of the year.

Yes, "Born This Way" is nominated for female video, but that's that. Why? "Born This Way," arguably, was the video of the year -- period. "Born This Way" was one of the biggest hits of Lady Gaga's career. It was her third No. 1-ranked single, setting new records as the fastest-selling song in iTunes history (3 million digital downloads overall) and most plays on the radio during its debut week (78.5 million).

The song was retooled on "Glee" to acclaim, and it was widely adopted as a freedom anthem of the LGBT community worldwide. Not nominating it for video of the year at the MTV VMAs is ludicrous.

Is it just a coincidence that Lady Gaga happened to dominate last year's VMAs? She swept up eight moonmen, remember, including video of the year for "Bad Romance." She even stole the show with her outrageous wardrobe, triggering a media frenzy when she appeared on stage in a dress made of meat.

The current list of MTV VMAs looks like the TV network's bosses cooked the kudos so they could have a new pop diva of the year (Katy Perry dominates the new race with nine nominations) while still getting Lady Gaga to attend by tossing her a bone with that one, chintzy nomination for best female video. Do you think that's true?

Did MTV cheat Lady Gaga out of a deserved nomination for best video of the year?

Yes. MTV wants to crown a new pop diva so they rigged the vote results to favor Katy Perry. 88.75%

No. The nominations were fair. Voters threw her under the bus because everybody's sick of Gaga. 6.23%

No. "Born This Way" doesn't deserve to be nominated for best video. 5.02%

Source: LA TIMES http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awar...-mtv-vmas.html

What do you think?

Mole

I think that Britney and Gaga were not included on purpose so that they don't sweep the awards. I can bet on my life that Katy Perry isn't going to win any of the categories that her + Brit/Gaga were nominated in. I think it's just preemptive measures so nobody assumes that they're rigged. I bet in the end they'll all have the same amount of awards tbh.

Britney + Gaga's fanbase is too big for there to be actual competition in fan-voted awards... Besides, I'm getting sick of Gaga winning everything. She needs to let somebody else shine

MrPeanut

Media outrage, yes.

sticks

Judas was the only great music video from this era. The others were simply boring. There's nothing else to it.

KRL

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The current list of MTV VMAs looks like the TV network's bosses cooked the kudos so they could have a new pop diva of the year (Katy Perry dominates the new race with nine nominations)

well it's true and it's fine. it was the year of Adele and katy, all the nods are well-deserved.

and it's actually good that Gaga didn't get nominated anywhere because we'd have to watch her lose in every category which would make the fan base even more mad

I'm pretty sure Gaga will deliver an excellent performance and win best female video which is alright. MTV can nominate her for VOTY next year.

BoyOnBoy Wonder

You forgot to include the poll, Joe. 88% of readers thought MTV fixed the noms for Katy.

Cap10Planet

Conspiracy? Or the thought that GaGa's videos just weren't as interesting this era compared to The Fame and The Fame Monster eras. I can think of a ton of videos that were more appealing but only got a nomination or two in the major categories - "Run The World" being one of them.

KeirGrey

Btw is the worst video she's done, ever

Auburn

Whoever wrote the article is pressed. Scared of KP-domination are we?

BASS

This is about the video right ? If that's the case, i don't see any "conspiracy".

BoyOnBoy Wonder

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Conspiracy? Or the fact that GaGa's videos just weren't as interesting this era compared to The Fame and The Fame Monster eras. I can think of a ton of videos that were more appealing but only got a nomination or two in the major categories - "Run The World" being one of them.

88% of LA Times readers disagree with you.

In all honesty though - yes it was obviously fixed for Katy; just as it was fixed for Gaga last year; fixed for Beyoncé the year before that; fixed for Britney the year before that. This isn't anything new - I just would prefer that they fixed it for a more-deserving artist this year.

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Originally posted by m-m-m-monster

You forgot to include the poll, Joe. 88% of readers thought MTV fixed the noms for Katy.

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Whoever wrote the article is pressed. Scared of KP-domination are we?

Yes, the LA Times is oh so pressed about Katy dominating.

Gui Blackout

They ****ed with everyone, not just Gaga. And BTW is NOT the video of the year.

Wepamiso

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Whoever wrote the article is pressed. Scared of KP-domination are we?

I know its irrelevant but where is your quote from like the article?

KRL

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Originally posted by Cap10Planet

Conspiracy? Or the thought that GaGa's videos just weren't as interesting this era compared to The Fame and The Fame Monster eras. I can think of a ton of videos that were more appealing but only got a nomination or two in the major categories - "Run The World" being one of them.

well I think Judas is Gaga's best video ever but even if you don't agree, you can't deny that it's better than 30% of the nominated videos (and half of the voty nominees).

I'm ok with Gaga not getting nods, but I disagree that it's because her videos weren't good

Cap10Planet

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88% of LA Times readers disagree with you.

In all honesty though - yes it was obviously fixed for Katy; just as it was fixed for Gaga last year; fixed for Beyoncé the year before that; fixed for Britney the year before that. This isn't anything new - I just would prefer that they fixed it for a more-deserving artist this year.

I'm sure that 88% of those voters were Gaga fans/supporters/stans as well. And let's not bring up poll results because we all know GaGa or anything in favor of GaGa dominates those just for the hell of it.

And Katy is a deserving artist. She put out interesting videos this year. As much as I love GaGa, her videos were typical - save maybe "The Edge of Glory," which didn't get a lot of love from fans.

Also, if we were to go by VEVO views, Gaga sorta "flopped" in that arena. So the interest wasn't fully there this era.

Hustle.

I still don't understand what people have against the video. What exactly about the video makes it undeserving of a nomination? They put a lot of work into the make-up, special effects, art direction and choreography. But the video seems to be rather underappreciated.

Wonda

LOL. People are not here for that video. Youtube views say it all.

sticks

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Originally posted by m-m-m-monster

88% of LA Times readers disagree with you.

In all honesty though - yes it was obviously fixed for Katy; just as it was fixed for Gaga last year; fixed for Beyoncé the year before that; fixed for Britney the year before that. This isn't anything new - I just would prefer that they fixed it for a more-deserving artist this year.

Clearly, Katy is the most deserving artist this year. Need I bring up her chart statistics, her creative videos, radio domination? Hew else would be the most-deserving artist?

chris1991

Not just with lady gaga but with many others!
Rhianna, Britney, JLo(most viewed video of the year)
Beyonce got 3 wtf.
Kanye Got Eleven? for what, they always kiss his ass.(mtv doesn want kanye mad at them)

But i must say, Katy Perry did have really great videos this era!! (it was like her oops era for Britney) every single video was perfect.