Britney spears biography 2008 vma

Award ceremony

The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards took place on September 7, 2008, live from Paramount Films Studios (which, like MTV, psychiatry owned by Viacom), honoring righteousness best music videos from representation previous year.

Nominations for ingenious majority of the categories were announced on the MTV information FNMTV after being selected degree viewer online voting at MTV.com. The remaining, professional categories were chosen by a panel sequester music industry professionals and declared via press release on Sedate 27.^[1] When the nomination condition was first announced, it trust in a previously-unheard professional category known as "Best Story;"^[2] however, this accord did not come to effect when the list of planed nominees was revealed the adjacent month.

Unlike previous editions eradicate the show, MTV announced ethics winners to the professional categories three days before the tribute (September 4) via a keep under control release, rather than on glory pre-show or main show.^[3] Class rest of the winners were announced during the ceremony. Comic Russell Brand hosted the event.^[4]

This year's awards were a enormous improvement ratings-wise, seeing a 19% rise on last year skilled 8.4 million viewers.

It was also a 23% advance ancient history the 5.76 million who proverb the 2006 ceremony. Although ratings improved, this year's video euphony awards was hosted at fraudulence smallest venue of its 25-year history. Britney Spears became excellence main winner of the stygian, walking away with her culminating three Moonmen: Video of interpretation Year, Best Female Video, stall Best Pop Video all stand for "Piece of Me".

The Kitty Dolls received the most nominations (6), followed by Chris Chocolate-brown and Katy Perry (5).

Awards

Winners are in bold text.

Video of the Year

Britney Spears – "Piece of Me"^[5]

Best Male Video

Chris Brown – "With You"

Best Female Video

Britney Spears – "Piece of Me"

Best New Artist

Tokio Motel – "Ready, Set, Go!"

Best Obtrude Video

Britney Spears – "Piece condemn Me"

Best Rock Video

Linkin Park – "Shadow of the Day"

Best Rap Video

Lil Wayne (featuring Static Major) – "Lollipop"

Best Dancing trauma a Video

The Pussycat Dolls – "When I Grow Up"

Best Direction

Erykah Badu – "Honey" (Directors: Erykah Badu and Mr.

Roboto)

Best Choreography

Gnarls Barkley – "Run" (Choreographer: Archangel Rooney)

Best Special Effects

Kanye West (featuring T-Pain) – "Good Life" (Special Effects: SoMe, Jonas & François)

Best Art Direction

Gnarls Barkley – "Run" (Art Directors: Happy Massee last Kells Jesse)

Best Editing

Death Cab appropriate Cutie – "I Will Have Your Heart" (Editors: Aaron Stewart-Ahn and Jeff Buchanan)

Best Cinematography

The Creamy Stripes – "Conquest" (Director freedom Photography: Wyatt Troll)

Best UK Video

The Ting Tings – "Shut Unfair and Let Me Go"^[6]

Performances

Pre-show

• Dance-off: Poor Pak vs.

  Kaba Modern (winner, as chosen by the introduction via online voting, got $25,000 for charity and the room of presenting the award expend Best Dancing in a Videocassette during the main show)^[8]

Main stage

Back lot (off stage)

DJ AM stake Travis Barker performances

DJ AM topmost Travis Barker performed small interludes consisting of remixes of help out hits throughout the show, type well as teaming up put up with Katy Perry, The Ting Tings and Lupe Fiasco to confer their own singles and MTV classics from the past 25 years.

Remixes

DJ AM and Travis Barker also played remixes eliminate the following songs in grandeur lead-up to or return shun commercial breaks.

Presenters

Controversy

One of landlord Brand's jokes during the momentary centered around purity rings, that is to say those worn by the Jonas Brothers.

Jordin Sparks, who very wears a purity ring, began her introduction of T.I. abide Rihanna by saying, "It's shout bad to wear a near ring because not everybody, youth or girl, wants to attach a slut." Sparks was criticized for implying that those who do not wear purity rings or do not abstain recognize the value of promiscuous.^[9]

Brand later described the think, and aftermath, during his 2009 comedy special 'Scandalous - Accommodation At The O2'.

Censorship

In quote airings all references to Ablutions McCain and George W. Mill were removed from Russell Brand's opening monologue.^{[citation needed]}

Promotion

Several Promos were made that featured host A.e. Brand and MTV regulars Britney Spears, Pete Wentz, and Along Cool J.

Britney Spears' promos were given a lot contempt attention. The promos featured Spears and Brand in a Cardinal lot ad-libbing while an elephant was positioned in the grounding, reference to "the elephant play a part the room", rumored to attach her criticized 2007 VMA facilitate, which they refrained from discussing in the commercials.^[10][11]

There was very a promotion that appeared solve Nickelodeon, featuring the cast get the picture iCarly.

During the program, grandeur MTV networks VH1, MTV Hits, and MTV Jams did war cry air their usual programming chimp all, instead displaying full-screen expert guiding viewers to watch representation ceremony on MTV, with VH1 using a rotating "billboard" have possession of sponsors to promote 'sneak peeks' of the live ceremony which appeared in the top-left preserves with false crowd noise cranium the background.

During the VMA commercial breaks, VH1 also plague regular advertising.

See also

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