Posts Tagged ‘Use Somebody’

2010 Grammy Nominatons, Less Old And Less Interesting Than ’09

In fame, Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, radio, TV on 3 December 2009 tagged 2010 Grammy Awards, Adele, Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas, Blueprint 3, Britney Spears, Celebration, Common, David Guetta, Day 'N Nite, Drake, eminem, Fearless, Flo Rida, Grammy Nominations, grammys, Halo, I'm on a Boat, Idolator, Jay-Z, Jazmine Sullivan, K'Naan, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Kelly Rowland, Keri Hilson, Kid Cudi, Kids, Kings of Leon, Madonna, Maxwell, MGMT, Mos Def, NARAS, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Pearl Jam, Pretty Wings, Q-Tip, rihanna, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Run This Town, Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Sugarland, T-Pain, T.I., Taylor Swift, The Fixer, The Lonely Island, Universal Mind Control, Use Somebody, Victoria Hesketh, When Love Takes Over, Womanizer, You Belong With Me with 1 comment

Last year’s Grammy nominations seemed to be a step in a direction more reflective of the Pop zeitgeist (don’t believe us, check out what Pitchfork had to say) but was ultimately plagued by the presence of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. This year, for the first time in seemingly forever, the Grammy nominations are not [...]

BNW’s 2009 VMA Picks

In Art, fame, fashion, Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, TV on 13 September 2009 tagged 2009 Video Music Awards, Anthony Mandler, Best Choreopgrahy, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Female Video, Best Male Video, Beyoncé, Bjork, Breakthrough Video, Britney Spears, Earth Intruders, gnarls barkley, Hype Williams, Joseph Kahn, Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson, Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Love Lockdown, MTV, MTV VMAs, music video, My Life Would Suck Without You, Paparazzi, Poker Face, Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Sophie Muller, Use Somebody, Video Music Awards, Video Of the Year, VMA, VMA nominees, VMAs, Wayne Isham with 1 comment

As a whole, this year’s VMA nominees did very little to advance the art of video making so to determine who should win this year’s moonmen we looked for stylish videos that made some sort of a statement in place of an artistic advancement of music video: Best Female Video: Kelly Clarkson “My Life Would [...]

MTV’s VMA Nominations Getting Better, But Still Terrible as a Whole

In fame, Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, TV on 4 August 2009 tagged 2009 Video Music Awards, A.R. Rahman, Asher Roth, Bjork, Britney Spears, Cobra Starship, D.O.A., Death of Autotune, Dr. Dre, Drake, eminem, Everlong, Flo Rida, Foo Fighters, Francis Lawrence, Freedom '90, George Michael, Good Girls Go Bad, Green Day, Heads Will Roll, Human Behavior, Jai Ho, Jake Nava, Jay-Z, Jonas Akerlund, Kai Regan, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Major Lazer, Marc Webb, Miss Independent, Mr. Hudson, MTV, Ne-Yo, Nominations, Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang, Paranoid, Passion Pit, Pussycat Dolls, rihanna, T.I., U2, Use Somebody, VMA, VMA Nominations, Where The Streets Have No Name, Yeah Yeah Yeahs with 2 comments

This year’s Video Music Award nominations actually boast some great pop videos: Gnarls Barkley’s Whose Gonna Save My Soul, Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Heads Will Roll, and essentially the entire Breakthrough Video cateogry, unfortunately, many of these videos were nominated in the wrong categories. Though Eminem’s We Made You and Britney Spears’ [...]