Ryan Loredo
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Pop stars, movie icons, and general celebrities all converged at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California for the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.
With no single host for this year’s VMA, each person presenting awards brought their own talent and taste to the event.
Lady Gaga was one of the first artists to open the event; she dressed as her male alter ego Joe Calderone and began to smoke on stage while ranting about Lady Gaga.
After the on-stage rant she began to sing her latest hit song “You and I.” Queen guitarist Brian May joined Gaga for the song and created a rocking opening for the awards.
After the duo departed the stage, Kevin Hart began to give an opening speech complaining how he was not able to host the event in its entirety.
After Hart’s speech came the first award, Best Pop Video, which was awkwardly presented by artist Nicki Minaj and actor Jonah Hill.
Their conversation before presenting the nominees focused on Hill’s recent weight loss, which was followed by a “Why did the chicken cross the road?” joke which ended with a Jonah-Hill-style punch line.
The nominees for this category were Adele for “Rolling in the Deep,” Bruno Mars for “Grenade,” Britney Spears for “When the World Ends,” Katy Perry for “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” and Ne-Yo for “Give Me Everything.”
The winner for this award was pop artist Britney Spears.
Snowboarder Shaun White and singer Miley Cyrus presented Best Rock Video after Hill and Minaj departed the stage.
Nominees for the category included Foo Fighters for “Walk,” Cage the Elephant for “Shake Me Down,” Foster the People for “Pumped Up Kicks,” The Black Keys for “Howlin’ for You,” and Mumford and Sons’ “The Cave.”
The winners of the Moon Man were the Foo Fighters.
After Best Rock Video came “The Beastie Boys of the Future” played by comedians Jack Black, Seth Rogan, and Will Ferrell to present the award for Best Hip-Hop Video.
Nominees included Lil Wayne featuring Cory Gunz for “6’7’,” Kanye West featuring Rihanna and Kid Cudi for “All of the Lights,” Chris Brown with Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes for “Look at Me Now,” Lupe Fiasco’s “The Show Goes On,” and Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass.”
Minaj took the award for this category in a mix of joy and excitement.
The next category for awards was the Best Collaboration.
Nominees for this category included Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Nayer and Afrojack for “Give Me Everything,” Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes for “Look At Me Now,” Kanye West featuring Rihanna and Kid Cudi for “All Of The Lights,” Katy Perry Featuring Kanye West for the song, “E.T.,” and Nicki Minaj featuring Drake for “Moment 4 Life.”
The winners for the award were artists Katy Perry and Kanye West.
Best Male Video was the next award presented in the event. The nominees included Kanye West for “All of The Lights,” Cee Lo Green for “F- You,” Eminem for “Love The Way You Lie,” Bruno Mars for “Grenade,” and Justin Bieber for “U Smile.”
Justin Bieber took the award for Best Male Video.
After Best Male came a fantastic dance performance by artist Chris Brown.
During his performance he danced to several different genres of music and ended it by flying across the audience.
After Brown left the stage, Lady Gaga came up to introduce a tribute act to Britney Spears.
The tribute act was a group of young girls dancing to various Spears songs all dressed in her various outfits for her music videos.
Lady Gaga then presented the Micheal Jackson Video Vanguard Award to Spears, which was followed by a performance by Beyoncé.
When Beyoncé left the stage, Selena Gomez and Taylor Lautner presented the award for Best New Artist.
The nominees were Foster the People for “Pumped Up Kicks,” Wiz Khalifa for “Black and Yellow,” Tyler, The Creator for “Yonkers,” Big Sean featuring Chris Brown for “My Last,” and Kreayshawn for “Gucci Gucci.” Tyler, The Creator won the award and sprinted towards the stage to receive it.
Young The Giant performed after The Creator left the stage.
It was their VMA debut as a band and were well received by the audience while performing their song “My Body.”
Actress Cloris Leachman and the Jersey Shore girls gave out the next award, Best Female Video.
The nominees were Adele for “Rolling In The Deep,” Katy Perry for “Firework,” Beyoncé for “Run The World (Girls),” Nicki Minaj for “Super Bass,” and Lady Gaga for “Born This Way.”
Gaga took the Moon Man and ended her speech with her line “You were born this way.”
Actor Russell Brand later came to the stage to introduce a tribute for artist Amy Winehouse.
He recalled experiences he had with her and introduced Tony Bennett. Bennett recalled a recording session with Winehouse and displayed a video clip of the same recording session.
Brand then introduces Bruno mars as part of the tribute and performed the song “Valerie.”
After the tribute came a trailer for the upcoming movie, “The Hunger Games,” which will premier March 23, 2012.
After the trailer came the final award of the event, Video of the Year.
The nominees for this category were Adele for “Rolling in the Deep,” Tyler, The Creator for “Yonkers,” Katy Perry for “Firework,” Beastie Boys for “Make Some Noise,” and Bruno Mars for “Grenade.”
The winner of the final Moon Man was Katy Perry.
The show’s final performance was Lil Wayne performing his songs “How to Love” and “John.”
With a hard rock background with his performance Wayne gave the 2011 VMA a well-deserved closing performance.
Ryan Loredo can be contacted at rloredo@keene-equinox.com
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