The MTV Video Music Awards are this week and after owning last year’s show with her performance and her awesome outfits Lady Gaga is at it again. This year not so much in the performing, since it has been announced that she will not perform (sadly). Lady Gaga has racked up 13 nominations this year which makes her the artist with the most nominations on a single year on MTV’s history. Pretty stellar.
Bu she has some fierce competition: Herself. For Video of the Year Gaga is nominated twice, for her singles Bad Romance and Telephone, both videos have been extremely successful and could easily beat the other nominees.
Here’s my view. Bad Romance is one of the most creative videos in a long time, it’s creepy, artistic, full of symbolism and drama. Not only that but it is the most watched video of ALL time in youtube with more than 274,000,000 views… that’s a lot. It is filled with ridiculous costumes, awesome dance routines and the “paws up” that now distinguishes her little monsters.
Telephone, on the other hand, is a collaboration with Beyoncé and, apart from being just a music video, it has the form of a short film. You can tell that it was carefully crafted with, again, a lot of symbolism and craft. Artistically, I would say it also is a masterpiece, comparing it to most music videos. Not every artist dares to create a short film for one of their songs, and the ones that do mostly fail.
So, as a music video I tend to go more for Bad Romance, but overall I think I enjoy Telephone better because of the story and the cinematography used. The fact that it is a short film with a progressive story makes me want to watch it again… but again, that doesn’t seem to be a problem with Bad Romance, seeing how many views it has on Youtube… Telephone has a bit more than 84,000,000… in case you were wondering.
What do you think? Which video should get the prize this year?
i knew GaGa would win, but i was sure pulling for Kings and Queens by 30 Seconds to Mars. i just think it’s amazing cinematography and a great video. i’m still a little confused about the horse, and some randomness, but overall an amazing song. but that is my preference. i like GaGa but would pay big bucks to see Jared Leto and boys and i would pay big bucks to take my wife to see GaGa because she would enjoy it.