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Gearing Up for the MTV Video Music Awards:

By Jeralyn

Los Angeles is gearing up for tomorrow night's MTV Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga is up for 13 awards. She's nominated twice in the music video of the year category, for Telephone and Video Phone. "Telephone" is a video of her getting thrown in jail. Beyonce bonds her out, and then they go on a homicidal rage killing people in a diner. Thelma and Louise, it's not.

Beyonce is nominated five times for her video, Video Phone, made with....Lady Gaga. (Both videos are also up in the Best Collaboration category.)Then there's the Glitter Queen, Ke$ha, who is up for three awards, including Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Best New Artist for "Tik Tok." I am clueless as to how it counts either as music or award material. What am I missing? [More...]

Chelsea Handler is hosting. Both Taylor Swift and Kanye West will perform, but not together. Reportedly, Taylor will sing a song about her getting snubbed by Kanye last year.

Viewers voted online and by text message. For Best New Artist, voting stays open through the show. The other categories are now closed. Who watches?

The “2010 MTV Video Music Awards” will be available to a potential viewing audience of more than 1.2 billion people via MTV’s global network of 63 channels reaching 605 million households around the world as well as through syndication. In addition, its convergent programming & content will reach the entire interactive community, via MTV’s more than 200 digital media properties around the world.

The red carpet will be white this year. You can catch the live feed of it here.

Who's presenting?

Cher, Ellen Degeneres, Katy Perry, the “Jersey Shore” Cast, Rosario Dawson, the Cast of “Glee,” Chris Pine, the Cast of Jackass, Kim Kardashian, Joe Manganiello of “True Blood,” Rick Ross and Romeo of Aventura...Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, Ke$ha, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Trey Songz, Ashley Greene, Selena Gomez and Ne-Yo.

Who's performing?

Linkin Park, Usher, Eminem, Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Drake, Paramore, B.o.B, Florence + The Machine, along with Travie McCoy, Jason Derulo and Robyn, VMA house artist deadmau5...Taylor Swift....Mary J. Blige, Swizz Beatz and Bruno Mars

So who will win? Probably Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Eminem and Justin Bieber. Don't they always?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 11, 2010 (boomark / email).