The MTV Australia Awards 2008 is the new title for the Australian MTV Awards previously known as the MTV Australia Video Music Awards. The show was held at Sydney's Australian Technology Park in Redfern on 26 April 2008 and aired live on MTV Australia and Fox8 on the Foxtel, Austar and Optus platforms in Australia and 28 April on SKY Digital in New Zealand.
History
Voting commenced on 12 March 2008 and concluded on 25 April 2008. Unlike previous shows, it included, for the first time, Best Australian and Best New Zealand artist award as well as Music Video of the year, Television Moment, Live Performer, Good and Bad Karma awards, the Re-Make award which allowed viewer's to re-film a moment in television in their own style.MTV New Zealand hosted the second Mile High Gig which flew Kiwi fans via Air New Zealand to the award's show with special guests performing on board including Dizzee Rascal and Scribe. The show was hosted by Wyclef Jean. Part of the years line-up were Academy Award nominee Juliette Lewis and her band Juliette & The Licks, Grammy Award winner Eve and 50 Cent. MTV Australia, were seeking Lindsay Lohan to be a guest of honour at the awards show but she later had to cancel her appearance due to film commitments. The show also had special awards which included the "Movie Star Award" which was awarded to actor Matt Damon, originally meant to be presented by Mischa Barton but was instead presented by 50 Cent and G Unit; "International Music Artist Of The Year", awarded to Timbaland and presented by The Veronicas and the "Sport Award" for surfer Mick Fanning presented by Ian Thorpe. The show was aired across 19 countries.
The MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2007 was broadcast live from Acer Arena on 29 April 2007 on MTV Australia. It was then repeated on the Ten Network on 6 May 2007.
In the awards new categories were added such as "Best Hook Up Video", "Download of the Year" and New Zealand Viewers Choice and "Sexiest Video" has been re-introduced to the categories after its absence from the 2006 show. Also, the "Video Vanguard" award was introduced to the Australian Awards for the first time which honoured Australian band Silverchair.
The 1998 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 10, 1998, honoring the best music videos from June 17, 1997, to June 12, 1998. The show was hosted by Ben Stiller at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
Madonna was the most successful winner and nominee of the night, winning six awards out of a total nine nominations: five (out of eight) for "Ray of Light", including Video of the Year and Best Female Video, and one for "Frozen" (its only nomination). Other than Madonna, only Will Smith and The Prodigy won multiple awards that night, winning two apiece.
With regard to nominations, the two biggest nominees aside from Madonna were alt-rock band Garbage and rapper Will Smith. Smith split his nominations between two videos: "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" (five) and "Just the Two of Us" (one), each of which earned a Moonman. In contrast, Garbage received all eight nominations for "Push It" but went home completely empty-handed at the end of the night.
The mesh dress that actor Rose McGowan wore to the award show was the subject of much media attention following the awards. The dress went on to become one of the most iconic and controversial outfits in the history of the VMA's.
The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards took place on September 13, 2009, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, honoring the best music videos from June 19, 2008, to June 29, 2009. Comedian Russell Brand hosted the event for the second time in a row. The awards were held a few months after Michael Jackson died. The VMAs dedicated the night to Jackson with a opening performance featuring a music video montage medley with dancers performing Jackson's choreography and concluding with a special appearance by Janet Jackson performing her duet "Scream" alongside footage of Jackson. Madonna opened the show with a speech about Jackson. For the finale of the show, they showed the trailer of Michael Jackson's This Is It.
On August 4, the nominees were announced. Beyoncé and Lady Gaga led the pack with nine nominations each, closely followed by Britney Spears with seven.Beyoncé, Green Day and Lady Gaga got three awards each, the most of the VMAs.
The show was watched by a total of 9million people, a 17% increase over 2008's show and the biggest ratings since the 2004 award show. This year was also the first year since 2006 to return to the Radio City Music Hall for the awards and unlike in 2008, where the show was held in a warehouse, this show was at a real venue with a live audience.
An MTV Video Music Award (commonly abbreviated as a VMA) is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the "Super Bowl for youth", an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony's ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20-somethings each year. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award. The statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and colloquially called a "moonman". The statue was conceived by Manhattan Design—also designers of the original MTV logo—based on the 1981 "Top of the Hour" animation created by Fred Seibert, produced by Alan Goodman, and produced by Buzz Potamkin at Buzzco Associates. The statue is now made by New York firm, Society Awards. Since the 2006 ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTV's website.
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Will tomorrow be better When yesterday things got worse? Just when I'm moving forward You go and put me in reverse And just because we were That don't mean that we are meant to be No, but who cares what tomorrow brings If it can't make sense of you and me? But I've got you And I can't imagine any day without you It makes me wanna shout And I'm singin' Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go Don't open your eyes just yet Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go It's not time to wake up yet It's too late To cut you out You're in my blood You're gonna spread Your smell, your taste Your laugh Stuck in my heart And trapped in my head But now I've got you And I can't imagine any day without you It makes me wanna shout And I'm singin' Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go It's not time to wake up yet Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go Don't open your eyes just yet If I could wake up How I dreamt I wouldn't feel So tired Your eyes That laugh and cry Can't seem the Eyes of liars But that don't mean I love you less And that don't mean I want you more than right now Baby, right now Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go It's not time to wake up-- Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go Don't open your eyes just yet Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go It's not time to wake up yet Oh-oh, oh-oh Hold on, don't let go Don't open your eyes just yet
Perhaps more importantly for her, she also managed to prevent the video footage from making it to air. Sharon, pictured in 2005 during the MTVAustraliaVideoMusic Awards (Picture... him video message.