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If you’ve been paying any attention to Crossfade’s occasional pre-show coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards, you’ve no doubt taken note of the fact that we consider Music Television to be a soul-sucking celebreality wasteland and its marquee annual event, the VMAs, to be a total joke that only gets shittier and shittier with every passing year.
Nevertheless, we watched the freaking thing. And as always, there were big winners and even bigger losers. Most of the action was about as predictable as our morning poop … Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Blah blah blah. But then Tyler the Creator‘s win in the Best New Artist category almost changed our whole attitude about the evening. Until we remembered it was just one of those cheap credebility grabs that MTV pulls off every decade and a half.
Now back to the crap! See the cut for the full results from last night’s MTV Video Music Awards.
Best Pop Video
Winner: Britney Spears’s “Till The World Ends”
Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”
Bruno Mars’ “Grenade”
Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything” feat. NE-YO, Nayer & Afrojack
Best Rock Video
Winner: Foo Fighters’ “Walk”
The Black Keys’ “Howlin For You”
Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks”
Mumford & Sons’ “The Cave”
Cage The Elephant’s “Shake Me Down”
Best Hip-Hop Video
Winner: Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass”
Lil Wayne “6 Foot 7 Foot” feat. Cory Gunz
Kanye West “All of the Lights” feat. Rihanna and Kid Cudi
Chris Brown “Look At Me Now” feat. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes
Lupe Fiasco’s “The Show Goes On”
Best Collaboration
Winner: Katy Perry’s “E.T.” feat. Kanye West
Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything” feat. Ne-Yo, Nayer, and Afrojack
Chris Brown “Look At Me Now” feat. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes
Kanye West “All of the Lights” feat. Rihanna and Kid Cudi
Nicki Minaj’s “Moment 4 Life” feat. Drake
Best Male Video
Winner: Justin Bieber’s “U Smile”
Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You”
Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” feat. Rihanna
Bruno Mars’s “Grenade”
Kanye West “All of the Lights” feat. Rihanna and Kid Cudi
Best Female Video
Winner: Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”
Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”
Beyonce’s “Run The World (Girls)”
Katy Perry’s “Firework”
Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass”
Video With a Message
Winner: Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”
Against Me’s “Make It Stop (September’s Children)”
Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” feat. Rihanna
Katy Perry’s “Firework”
Pink’s “Fucking Perfect”
Taylor Swift’s “Mean”
Best Choreography
Winner: Beyonce’s “Run The World (Girls)”
Britney Spears’s “Till The World Ends”
Lady Gaga’s “Judas”
Bruno Mars’s “The Lazy Song”
LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock
Best Editing
Winner: Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”
Katy Perry’s “E.T.” feat. Kayne West
Thirty Seconds To Mars’s “Hurricane”
Kanye West “All of the Lights” feat. Rihanna and Kid Cudi
Manchester Orchestra’s “Simple Math”
Best Special Effects
Winner: Katy Perry’s “E.T.” feat. Kanye West
Manchester Orchestra’s “Simple Math”
Kanye West’s “Power”
Linkin Park’s “Waiting For The End”
Chromeo’s “Don’t Turn The Lights On”
Best Cinematography
Winner: Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”
Beyonce’s “Run The World (Girls)”
Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” feat. Rihanna
Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream”
Thirty Seconds To Mars’s “Hurricane”
Best Art Direction
Winner: Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”
Katy Perry’s “E.T.” feat. Kanye West
Lady Gaga’s “Judas”
Kanye West’s “Power”
Death Cab For Cutie’s “You Are A Tourist”
Best Direction
Winner: Beastie Boys’ “Make Some Noise”
Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”
Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” feat. Rihanna
Katy Perry’s “E.T.” feat. Kayne West
Thirty Seconds To Mars’s “Hurricane”
Best New Artist
Winner: Tyler the Creator
Foster The People
Wiz Khalifa
Big Sean feat. Chris Brown
Kreayshawn
Video of the Year
Winner: Katy Perry’s “Firework”
Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”
Tyler the Creator’s “Yonkers”
Bruno Mars’s “Grenade”
Beastie Boys’ “Make Some Noise”
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