Today is Wednesday, September 5th, 2007. Welcome to VMA Week on
Dozen Rock Videos Countdown. Today, we profile the best and the most infamous moments of the VMAs. Now, To the
Dozen Rock Videos Countdown.
On-Deck:
20. Madina Lake, Here I Stand
19. Kid Rock, So Hott [ADDED]
18. Army Of Me, Going Through Changes
17. Cartel, Lose It
16. Motion City Soundtrack, Broken Heart
15. Chevelle, I Get It
14. Against Me!, Thrash Unreal
13. Muse, Supermassive Black Hole [Days:17|Peak:2(1x)|Low:12] [OUT]
Top 12:
12. Evanescense, Good Enough [Days:1|Peak:12|Low:12] [DEBUT]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8tzbRBEZ7o
11. Rise Against, The Good Left Undone [Days:27|Peak:3|Low:12] [-4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxLPV19tO4
10. KoRn, Evolution [Days:32|Peak:1(9x)|Low:10] [-2]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=14558129
9. FOB, The Take Over, The Breaks Over [Days:29|Peak:2(1x)|Low:12] [+2]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=10893374
8. Atreyu, Becoming The Bull [Days:3|Peak:8|Low:12] [+2]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=15889150
7. Sum 41, Walking Disaster [Days:4|Peak:7|Low:12] [+2]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=16593488
6. White Stripes, You Don't Know What Love Is [Days:15|Peak:3|Low:11] [-1]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=14754370
5. The Used, Pretty Handsome Akward [Days:8|Peak:5|Low:12] [+1]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=13873111
4. Silverstein, If You Could See Into My Soul [Days:7|Peak:4|Low:11] [=]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=15020287
3. Linkin Park, Bleed It Out [Days:20|Peak:1(11x)|Low:10] [-1]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=14858660
2. Nickelback, Rockstar [Days:16|Peak:2(1x)|Low:11] [+1]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=16798646
1. Foo Fighters, The Pretender [Days:10|Peak:1(3x)|Low:12] [=]
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=16477690
Falloffs/Removals:
12. Muse, Supermassive Black Hole
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...ideoid=2174035
On-Deck:
Interpol, The Heinrich Maneuver [REMOVED]
Best Moments List of the VMAs
1984: Madonna's performance at the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 is considered to be the singer's first of many controversial incidents over her twenty-five-year career. She took the stage to sing
Like a Virgin wearing a combination bustier/wedding gown, which included her trademark "Boy Toy" belt. During the performance, she rolled around on the floor, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and made a number of sexually suggestive moves.
1988: Kurt Loder debuts at MTV News. Also, John Norris, at this time, actually had credibility in his reporting.
1989: Controversial comic Andrew Dice Clay's appearance on the 1989 Video Music Awards to promote his new movie,
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, earned him a "lifetime ban" from the network when he performed some of his already-notorious offensive nursery rhymes.
After performing on the 1989 VMAs with Tom Petty, Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin was assaulted by Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil, leading to a verbal battle between Neil and Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose when Rose stood up for Stradlin.
1990: John Norris left MTV News.
Madonna's Marie Antoinette-inspired performance of
Vogue drew criticism for being sexually provocative, including instances when Madonna pushed two male dancers' faces into her breasts and lifted her skirts to reveal her undergarments.
Justify My Love turned out to be raunchier than
Vogue.
1992: In 1992, MTV had requested that Nirvana perform their smash hit
Smells Like Teen Spirit, while the band members themselves had indicated they preferred to play their new songs,
Rape Me and
Tourette's. This did not go over well with network executives, who continued to push for
Smells Like Teen Spirit. Finally, offering a compromise, MTV executives offered the band a choice to play either
Smells Like Teen Spirit or
Lithium, which the band appeared to accept. However, at the actual performance, Kurt Cobain played and sang the first few bars of
Rape Me, much to the horror of MTV executives. MTV was just about to cut to a commercial, but the band returned to their regular performance of
Lithium.
Howard Stern, dressed as Fartman, had his buttcheeks grabbed by then teen-heartthrob Luke Perry during the presentation of the Best Heavy Metal/Hard Rock band video. Later on that night, during the post ceremony on MTV, Van Halen's lead singer, Sammy Hagar, declared "Howard Stern's a jerk".
1993: RuPaul caused a bit of controversy at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards when he was given the opportunity to present an award with legendary actor Milton Berle, who performed an altogether different type of drag early in his career. The two had conflicts back-stage, and when Berle inappropriately touched RuPaul's breasts, RuPaul ad-libbed the line, "So you used to wear gowns, but now you're wearing diapers." The press picked this up as a crack in the "love everyone" message RuPaul presented, and depicted the incident as a young newcomer treating a legend poorly. Eventually the hullabaloo faded.
1994: Shortly after their marriage, Michael Jackson and then-wife Lisa Marie Presley arrived to present an award and gave a highly-publicized on-air kiss.
Upon winning the Best Video of the Year award and receiving it from Madonna, Steve Tyler joked, holding out his index and middle finger, "Why does Madonna use these two fingers to masturbate? Because they're mine." Madonna retorted, "Steve, if I used your fingers to masturbate, it wouldn't be masturbation-- it would be sexual abuse."
1995: At the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards post-show, while MTV News correspondent Kurt Loder was interviewing Madonna, an apparently intoxicated Courtney Love threw her compacts into the post-show interview box; she then proceeded to enter the interview box and begin discussing how she and Madonna had gotten into a public dispute a few years earlier, ultimately taking over the interview. Love began talking about how there was plenty of good money in rock 'n' roll; to which Madonna responded; "...and a lot of available drugs." An irritated Madonna left a few minutes later. Also, Tabitha Soren was in the press box with Loder.
1996: John Norris rejoins MTV News.
The program featured a live interlink between the awards show and Russian astronauts in the Space Station, which proceeded very awkwardly due to language difficulties. Miller said: "See? That's why our countries didn't get along for so long!" After the next commercial break, Miller said that, "The astronauts are on their way here to kick my ass." Appearing to egg on the fictional conflict, he said, "You want a piece of me? Come here." The comment was followed by an apparently unplanned scream from off-stage which prompted Miller to respond, "All right! Exactomundo. They're here!"
1997: In 1997, Puff Daddy released his debut album
No Way Out, featuring the successful tribute single
I'll Be Missing You, dedicated to the recently murdered Notorious B.I.G. The song featured Puff Daddy, Biggie's widow Faith Evans, and R&B group 112. All these artists performed the song with former Police vocalist Sting during the 1997 Video Music Awards.
1998: At the 1998 Video Music Awards, Brandy and Monica performed
The Boy Is Mine together live for the first time, putting an end to the media's speculation that the two were rivals.
Actress Rose McGowan arrived at the VMAs with then-boyfriend Marilyn Manson wearing a see-through dress, no bra, and a thong.
Tre Cool, drummer for Green Day, became the first and only person to climb the Universal Studios globe
1999: Lil' Kim showed up at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards with an entire breast exposed and only a tiny piece of fabric over the nipple. Kim's outfit became even more controversial later that night when she appeared on stage with Mary J. Blige and Diana Ross to present the ceremony's first Best Hip Hop Video, and Ross reached over, cupped her hand under Kim's exposed breast and jiggled it while both laughed heartily. It was later described as Ross getting to second base with Kim on national television.
2000: D'Angelo and Jennifer Lopez presented the award for Best Rock Video to Limp Bizkit. As Fred Durst was making his speech, Tim Commerford, the bassist for Rage Against the Machine, climbed onto the scaffolding of the set, shook it back and forth, and refused to come down. Fred Durst had just got done saying "It's a big surprise to be in one of the world's most hated rock bands, and to be getting an award right now," when his bandmates pointed Commerford out to him; Durst added: "and we've got a mad man." He then began to egg Commerford on by saying, "Stage dive, dude." and "Take a dive." By this time the crowd had started a small "Jump!" chant. The band continued with their thank-yous, with DJ Lethal even saying "Everybody is a winner tonight." Durst finally added, "And this guy's a ***** cause he won't jump." The show soon went into a commercial break. Commerford, along with his bodyguard, was sentenced to a night in jail, though he later claimed the stunt was intended as a joke.
Britney Spears gave a memorable historic live performance of
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction and her own hit
Oops!... I Did It Again in medley form. While she began her segment in a black suit, she shocked the media when, at only the age of eighteen, she ripped the suit off to display a revealing, flesh-colored stage outfit. Afterward, co-host Marlon Wayans commented: "Girl done went from the
Mickey Mouse Club to the strip club! Go on, girl!!"
Eminem gave a performance where he bought out hundreds of look alikes and they all paraded throughout the aisles while he performed. In the song he performed,
The Real Slim Shady, Eminem suggests that Christina Aguilera gave oral sex to both MTV VJ Carson Daly and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst. Aguilera had been fighting off the rumors since the song was released. All three of them happened to be in the audience as Eminem was walking up and down the aisles. During that specific part of the song, Eminem went up to Daly and shook his hand.
2001: SuChin Pak debuts at MTV News.
Britney Spears again shocked the nation when she took the stage to give a performance of her then-new single,
I'm a Slave 4 U. Along with dancing in a very revealing outfit while wet, the performance is probably most remembered for featuring the singer 'charming' a flesh-colored snake and a white tiger on the stage. A media frenzy ensued, and involved criticisms against Spears by the PETA organisation.
U2 had been set to perform a medley including
Elevation,
Beautiful Day, and
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of. However, the riser they were performing on lost power and MTV had to cut to several minutes of promos while everything was setup again. Subsequently, they lost power again and finally the band was lowered to the ground and performed without the riser. Lead singer Bono made reference after the performance that MTV "forgot to pay the electricity bill."
2002: The 2002 VMAs opened with James Brown and P. Diddy introducing Britney Spears, after which she presented a birthday present to Michael Jackson, as his birthday coincided with the award ceremony. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog appeared at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards and had a confrontation with Eminem, which MTV later removed from rebroadcast airings. Eminem also had a confrontation with Moby, who had previously called the rapper's music misogynistic and homophobic. Eminem challenged Moby to a fight while he was on stage while the audience rallied with a downpur of boos directed at Eminem himself.
Host Jimmy Fallon commented on it at the opening of the show, singing that "she's got her boobs wrapped in a napkin." At the end of the show, Axl Rose unveiled the new lineup of Guns N' Roses. The band's set was the show's finale, and although the performance was meant to be kept a secret, host Jimmy Fallon frequently aluded to a major event that would occur at the end of the show before finally donning a Guns N' Roses T-shirt when he introduced the band, while some New York radio outlets announced the performance earlier in the day. The band, which included eight members and was fronted by a braided Axl Rose, played a set consisting of
Welcome to the Jungle, Madagascar, and
Paradise City.
Kurt Loder interviewed Axl Rose when this was said and done.
2003: Madonna and Britney Spears provoked the public once again by portraying a groom and bride on stage and locking lips with each other. The gender role-reversal and lesbian theme instantly made front page headlines. In the performance, Madonna also kissed Christina Aguilera, but it did not gain nearly as much publicity as the Madonna-Britney kiss. The three singers performed a medley of Madonna's early hit,
Like a Virgin and her then-latest release,
Hollywood, with a guest rap by Missy Elliott at the end.
The design resembled Madonna's performance of
Like a Virgin at the 1984 VMAs: the same wedding cake set was used, and the wedding dress and "Boy Toy" belt worn by Madonna in 1984 was now adorned by Aguilera and Spears.
2004: No official Host was used.
2005: The MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2005 were held three days after Hurricane Katrina, a category one hurricane at the time, hit just north of Miami, Florida on August 25, 2005. Some local residents in the area were without power and could not watch the broadcast. Hurricane Katrina passed through Florida before hitting along the Central Gulf Coast August 29 near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana as a category three storm. The most notable reference to the storm during the ceremony came when Eva Longoria strutted out wearing a revealing bikini, seductively saying "I wasn't about to let a little hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit."
R.Kelly performs possibly the strangest performance in the history of the awards. It was the debut of the new scene in his rap opera,
Trapped in the Closet and he performed every character in the scene by himself.
The second surprise of the evening was the return to MTV of MC Hammer. Hammer sang his infamous hit (and popular one at that)
U Can't Touch This while wearing his immortal parachute pants.
The final surprise of the evening was the premiere of a new music video by Diddy's protege, Notorious B.I.G.. Because of his suspected involvement in the alleged death of Biggie's rival 2Pac, Diddy was banned from making any references to Shakur.
The 2005 MTV Video Music Awards was the first to have a performance in Spanish when Shakira performed her hit song
La Tortura featuring Alejandro Sanz. It was also the first time that a Latin video was nominated at the awards.
2006: A man named Sixx jumped on stage when Panic! at the Disco won the award for Video of the Year. He claimed that MTV had denied him his own television show and directed viewers to go to mtv6000.com, which redirects to AwardShowCrasher.com. Sixx has crashed past VMAs. At the beginning of the show, Jack Black stated that he was going to be the best host in VMA history. The theme of the show was that everything Black did would go wrong. In a planned sequence, Black's entrance was supposed to feature him walking down a pair of steps in a moonman suit. Axl Rose returns to MTV introducing The Killers after screaming to the audience "Do you know where the **** you are?"
2007: Timbaland hosts the VMAs. Pre-show reporters are SuChin Pak, Sway Calloway, Tim Kash, and John Norris. The Latter needs to leave MTV News.
VMA Updates from MTVNews.com
It's A Gamble: Who Will Win Video Of The Year?
Reported By SuChin Pak, with additional analysis by Tim Kash
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1568962&vid=173751
Next Countdown| Thursday
Will Foo Fighters be #1? Will Linkin Park regain the edge? Will The Used keep up their rise? Will Silverstein crack the Top 2? Is Rise Agsinst in Danger? Find out Tomorrow, however, until the next countdown, keep the comments coming.
Schedule for the Week of 09/03/2007:
Wednesday: VMA Week: Moments of the VMAs. <<
Thursday: VMA Week: Predictions/Best MTV News moments at the VMAs.
Friday: VMA Week: Best Rock/Alternative Videos. WP from Sixx:AM
Saturday: VMA Week: Snubbed Alternative/Rock songs.