2007 MTV Video Music Awards

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The 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, honoring the best music videos from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007, took place September 9, in Las Vegas at The Palms. The VMAs aired live that evening at 9:00 p.m. ET on MTV. MTV originally announced that the show would never be reaired in its entirety, but program listings eventually showed that that was not the case. Perhaps as a concession that TV viewing audiences for the VMAs were decreasing year over year, the 2007 VMAs were produced on a smaller budget and in front of a smaller crowd. Unlike in past years where the show was shown on MTV in 16:9 HDTV letterbox format, this year the ceremony was aired in 4:3 on the main channel. However, it was still produced in high definition, and was scheduled to air in full MHD (now known as Palladia), Viacom's high definition channel, on September 22 at 9pm EDT. [ [http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/09/rounding_up_hd_news_marvel_at.php Rounding Up HD News: Marvel at Britney in High Def - TVWeek - News ] ] At the last minute however, a 'best of' 90 minute clip show aired instead [ [http://www.tvpredictions.com/mtvbritney092407.htm MTV Yanks Britney's Flop From MHD Schedule ] ] .

The week before the ceremony, the network aired "VMA Week" on "TRL", along with other programming around the VMA's, including exclusive performances from top artists.

On August 7, the nominees were announced live on "TRL" with a special performance by Kanye West.

The 2007 VMAS were the smallest VMAs ever held in MTV history, eliminating nearly thirteen awards, re-naming the rest and having only four performances on the main stage. The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Brought Back Some of the original awards that were not present in 2007.

The 2007 award show is world famous due to the infamous performance by Britney Spears.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text

Video of the Year

* Beyoncé — "Irreplaceable"
* Justice — "D.A.N.C.E."
* Rihanna (featuring Jay-Z) — "Umbrella"
* Justin Timberlake — "What Goes Around...Comes Around"
* Kanye West — "Stronger"
* Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"

Male Artist of the Year

* Akon
* Robin Thicke
* T.I.
* Justin Timberlake
* Kanye West

Female Artist of the Year

* Beyoncé
* Fergie
* Nelly Furtado
* Rihanna
* Amy Winehouse

Best Group

* Fall Out Boy
* Gym Class Heroes
* Linkin Park
* Maroon 5
* The White Stripes

Best New Artist

* Lily Allen
* Gym Class Heroes
* Peter Bjorn and John
* Carrie Underwood
* Amy Winehouse

Quadruple Threat of the Year

* Beyoncé
* Bono
* Jay-Z
* Justin Timberlake
* Kanye West

Most Earthshattering Collaboration

* Akon (featuring Eminem) — "Smack That"
* Beyoncé (featuring Shakira) — "Beautiful Liar"
* Gwen Stefani (featuring Akon) — "The Sweet Escape"
* Justin Timberlake (featuring Timbaland) — "SexyBack"
* U2 (featuring Green Day) — "The Saints Are Coming"

Monster Single of the Year

* Daughtry — "Home"
* Fall Out Boy — "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
* Avril Lavigne — "Girlfriend"
* Lil' Mama — "Lip Gloss (No Music)"
* MIMS — "This Is Why I'm Hot"
* Plain White T's — "Hey There Delilah"
* Rihanna (featuring Jay-Z) — "Umbrella"
* Shop Boyz — "Party Like a Rockstar"
* T-Pain (featuring Yung Joc) — "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')"
* Timbaland (featuring Keri Hilson, D.O.E. and Sebastian) — "The Way I Are"

Best Director

* Christina Aguilera — "Candyman (Directors: Matthew Rolston and Christina Aguilera)
* Beyoncé (featuring Shakira) — "Beautiful Liar" (Director: Jake Nava)
* Linkin Park — "What I've Done" (Director: Joseph Hahn)
* Rihanna (featuring Jay-Z) — "Umbrella" (Director: Chris Applebaum)
* Justin Timberlake — "What Goes Around...Comes Around" (Director: Samuel Bayer)
* Kanye West — "Stronger" (Director: Hype Williams)

Best Editing in a Video

* Beyoncé (featuring Shakira) — "Beautiful Liar" (Editor: Jarett Figl)
* Gnarls Barkley — "Smiley Faces" (Editor: Ken Mowe)
* Linkin Park — "What I've Done" (Editor: Igor Kovalik)
* Justin Timberlake — "What Goes Around...Comes Around" (Editor: Hollee Singer)
* Kanye West — "Stronger" (Editors: Peter Johnson and Corey Weisz)

Best Choreography in a Video

* Beyoncé (featuring Shakira) — "Beautiful Liar" (Choreographer: Frank Gatson)
* Chris Brown — "Wall to Wall" (Choreographers: Rich & Tone and Flii Styles)
* Ciara — "Like a Boy" (Choreographer: Jamaica Craft)
* Eve — "Tambourine" (Choreographer: Tanisha Scott)
* Justin Timberlake (featuring T.I.) — "My Love" (Choreographer: Marty Kudelka)

MTV2 On The Rise Contest

Flowers for Dorian won the MTV2 On The Rise contest. The prize for winning was getting flown to New York City to film 5 live videos in front of a green screen. The 5 videos were on Comcast's On Demand and one of the videos premiered at the VMA's. Flowers for Dorian's video for the song Love Remains also premiered at the VMA's.

Performances

Unlike previous editions of the MTV Video Music Awards, 2007 brought, besides the main show venue, different suites, each with a host band performing and inviting special guests to perform. There were few Main Show performances, which happened at the same place where the awards were being televised. Also, Mark Ronson provided some small performances at the Main Show with special guests

Pre-show

* Nicole Scherzinger featuring Lil Wayne — "Whatever U Like" (MTV-mix)

Main Show

* Britney Spears — "Trouble" intro/"Gimme More"
* Chris Brown featuring Rihanna — "Wall to Wall"/"Umbrella" (Rihanna intermission)/"Billie Jean" (danced, not sung)/"Kiss Kiss" medley
* Linkin Park — "Bleed It Out" (surprise performance at Rain Night club)- with intro by Timbaland
* Alicia Keys — "No One"/"Freedom" medley
* Closing Medley by Timbaland and guests: Nelly Furtado — "Do It" / D.O.E. and Sebastian — "The Way I Are" rap interlude / Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson — "The Way I Are" / Justin Timberlake — "LoveStoned" / Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake — "Give It To Me"

mall Mark Ronson Band Performances at the Main Show

* Mark Ronson featuring Akon — "Smack That"
* Mark Ronson featuring Adam Levine — "Wake Up Call"
* Mark Ronson featuring Wale_(rapper) — "W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E."
* Mark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather — "Stop Me"

Kanye West Fantasy Suite show

* Kanye West — "Touch The Sky"
* Kanye West — "Champion"
* Kanye West — "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
* Kanye West — "I Wonder"
* Kanye West — "Stronger"
* Kanye West featuring T-Pain — "Good Life"
* Common featuring Kanye West — "Drivin' Me Wild"
* Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx — "Gold Digger"
* Soulja Boy — "Crank That"

Timbaland & Timberlake Fantasy Suite show

* T.I. (with beat-box by Justin Timberlake) — "Big Things Poppin' (Do It)"
* Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland — "Chop Me Up"
* Petey Pablo — "Freak-a-Leek"
* 50 Cent featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland — "Ayo Technology"
* 50 Cent — "I Get Money"
* 50 Cent — "Straight To The Bank"/"In Da Club"

Fall Out Boy Fantasy Suite show

* Fall Out Boy — "Sugar, We're Goin Down"
* Rihanna featuring Fall Out Boy — "Shut Up and Drive"
* Fall Out Boy — "Thnks fr th Mmrs"
* Fall Out Boy — "Beat It"/"The Carpal Tunnel of Love" medley
* Fall Out Boy — Don't Matter
* Fall Out Boy — "Top Gun Anthem"
* Fall Out Boy featuring Lil Wayne and Brendon Urie — "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
* Gym Class Heroes featuring Ne-Yo and Patrick Stump — "Clothes Off"
* Gym Class Heroes — "The Queen And I"
* Panic! at the Disco — "Nine in the Afternoon"
* Cobra Starship featuring William Beckett and Travis McCoy — "Bring It (Snakes on a Plane)"
* Cobra Starship — "The Church of Hot Addiction"

Foo Fighters Fantasy Suite show

* Foo Fighters — "Shake Your Blood Part 1"
* Foo Fighters — "Everlong"
* Foo Fighters — "Best of You"
* Foo Fighters — "All My Life"
* Foo Fighters featuring Pat Smear — "The Pretender"
* Foo Fighters featuring Serj Tankian — "Holiday in Cambodia"
* Foo Fighters featuring Cee-Lo — "Darling Nikki"
* Queens of the Stone Age featuring Cee-Lo and Dave Grohl — "Make It wit Chu"
* Mastodon featuring Josh Homme — "Colony of Birchmen"
* Foo Fighters featuring Lemmy — "I'll Be Your Sister"
* Foo Fighters featuring Lemmy — "Shake Your Blood Part 2"
* Eagles of Death Metal featuring Dave Grohl — "Speaking in Tongues"
* Eagles of Death Metal featuring Dave Grohl — "I Want You So Hard"

Appearances

* Ashanti
* Sarah Silverman
* Eve
* Kevin Connolly
* Kid Rock
* Seth Rogen
* Adrian Grenier
* Bill Hader
* Rosario Dawson
* Megan Fox
* Jamie Foxx
* Jennifer Garner
* Paris Hilton
* Lauren Conrad
* Audrina Patridge
* Whitney Port
* Shia LaBeouf
* Jennifer Hudson
* Robin Thicke
* Nelly
* Mary J. Blige
* Dr. Dre
* Diddy
* Yung Joc
* Jermaine Paul
* Caitlin Upton
* Ryan Sheckler

Britney Spears performance

Britney Spears opened the 2007 VMA's with a performance of her new single, "Gimme More". The performance had been highly hyped and anticipated by MTV, various other media outlets, by music critics and many millions of fans and the World in general as Spears'"comeback" performance, as this was Spears' first international appearance and performance since late 2003 when she did several performances in support of her fourth album In The Zone. After Spears' widely publicized kiss with Madonna, she had gone on hiatus and got married to Kevin Federline, with whom she had had two children. Spears' growing media frenzy, obbsession, scrutiny, attention and speculation caused wild antics in the past four years had many wondering if the 2007 VMA performance would put her back on top.

Reviews of the performance were unfavorable; a media critic noted that Spears seemed confused and disoriented on stage and appeared to have forgotten the lyrics and dance moves to her performance. The public's negative reaction to the performance all the more increased the media frenzy that Britney and her team were trying to put behind them. In the months following the performance, Spears would go through a very public meltdown.

Although previously reported, [Chris Harris, [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1568994/20070906/spears_britney.jhtml "Britney Spears To Open 2007 MTV Video Music Awards: It's Official!"] . MTV News. Retrieved on September 7, 2007] illusionist Criss Angel did not play any part in the performance.

Kid Rock/Tommy Lee altercation

Kid Rock and Tommy Lee were involved in an altercation at the Video Music Awards during the come-back performance of Alicia Keys. A source reported that Tommy Lee was sitting with magician Criss Angel when the two went to visit Diddy, who was sitting close to Kid Rock. Shortly after the two went over to see Diddy, "all hell broke loose," that source told Access Hollywood. It is reported that Kid Rock sucker punched Tommy Lee in his back. The two who were once husbands of Pamela Anderson were broken up, and both were escorted from the resort. Angel was removed a short time later. The cause of the fight is unknown. [cite web |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah6739.shtml |title=Access Hollywood | Fight Breaks Out Between Tommy Lee & Kid Rock At VMAs | Celebrity and Hollywood News |accessdate=2007-10-02 |format= |work=]

TMZ.com reported that the Las Vegas Police questioned Kid Rock and no arrests were made.

An eyewitness reported to TMZ that "Tommy got it pretty bad." [cite web |url=http://www.tmz.com/2007/09/10/security-cops-on-the-hunt-for-kid-rock-after-vma-fight |title=Security: Cops on the Hunt for Kid Rock After VMA Fight - TMZ.com |accessdate=2007-10-02 |format= |work=] The incident was confirmed by Palms Hotel and Casino public relations representative Larry Fink. MTV Host Sway Calloway said "Tommy Lee was sitting by P-Diddy and Kid Rock just got off stage and from what I saw he walked up to Lee and just decked him."

On-Air Reactions
*Presenter Jamie Foxx said "Let’s stop all of this white on white crime."
*Diddy made a remark that "It's not just the hip-hop artists that sometimes have a problem."

Background information

Amy Winehouse's record label cancelled her performance for the show following Lily Allen's withdrawal from the event due to issues obtaining a visa. The two were rumored to perform a duet. [cite web|url=http://www.mtv.co.uk/channel/mtvuk/news/30082007/winehouse_scraps_vma_gig |title="Winehouse Scraps VMA Gig"|publisher=MTV.co.uk|date=August 2007]

The French electronic group Justice were going to perform at the show with Mark Ronson during one of his VMA spots with an additional special guest. [cite web|url=http://www.subterraneanblog.com/2007/09/07/justice-to-perform-on-vmas-kinda/|title="Justice To Perform on VMAs - Kinda"|publisher=MTV2|date=September, 7 2007] The group had to drop out due to their very, very late arrival in Las Vegas stemming from having to fly in from Europe. [cite web|url=http://www.subterraneanblog.com/2007/09/09/no-justice/ |title="No Justice"|publisher=MTV2|date=September, 9 2007]

Madonna was rumored to perform with Justin Timberlake according to various Canadian newspapers, but her publicist denied any involvement with the event.

Shia LaBeouf revealed the name of the fourth Indiana Jones film, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". It was confirmed by the official site.

Much of the banter between Seth Rogen and Bill Hader during the bits for "Best New Artist" was redone minutes before broadcast. Kid Rock's response to the question of "How is life since you lost Best New Artist?" was to be "Sucks". Instead, with 20 seconds left in the commercial break, Kid came up with the "I eat pussy for breakfast" line.

The live and pre-recorded voice overs are done by September Day Leach. [ [http://imdb.com/name/nm2783295/ imdb.com] ]

References

ee also

* Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2007
* MTV Video Music Awards
* MTV Europe Music Awards
* MTV Video Music Brazil

External links

* [http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2007/ 2007 MTV Video Music Awards website]