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Marissa Nadler And Rihanna, Together At Last
7:01PM ON
07/21/2008
BY
Matthew Lawrence
The MTV awards have always been kind of a crapshoot (or crapfest, depending on how nice you want to be.) In twenty-five years of its existence, the network has yet to figure out whether or not to be celebrating the best videos, the flashiest videos, the most entertaining singers, or just the videos for the songs that the tweens are most likely to be enjoying at that specific moment, regardless of how boring the clips themselves might be.Maybe that’s why they’ve decided to make pretty much every category a Viewer’s Choice this year. You can go to mtv.com now to vote for Best Female Video and Best Male Video. Former AS220 resident Marissa Nadler’s up for the former, along with 123 other people (literally.) She’s not getting lots of votes, I don’t think, since she’s currently listed in the ninth row of the third page of nominees, and I can’t imagine that anybody but me is bored enough to read that far down the list. She is beating Lykke Li and Karina Pasian, though, which is something. I really likethe video for “Bird On Your Grave”, actually, and the song’s grown on me since I first heard it last fall.
In the Best Male Video category, the top 40 nominees are all hip-hop videos from boys that twelve-year old girls like (Chris Brown has three of the top eight videos, currently) but Rhode Island native Elvis Perkins is currently the 177th most viewed nominee, ahead of the far more endearing Thurston Moore and Jens Lekman.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:03PM
Matthew Lawrence Says:
Sorry I just screwed up the whole site posting that video…
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August 16th, 2008 at 4:08AM
Rihanna - Take A Bow mp3 Says:
You can download the mp3 here, please delete it after 24 hours to keep things legal
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