Post by cinestertheater on Mar 7, 2010 7:00:46 GMT -5
(because, like a grizzly bear or a great white shark, Kanye is neither really good or evil... he simply is)
....but I've been thinking back on it, and the VMA nominations just don't make sense.
Taylor Swift won for "Best Female Video". There's an awful lot implied there: of all the music videos put out by female artists (including Beyonce), Taylor Swift's was considered The Best. Of all the other nominations for that category (including Beyonce), Taylor Swift's video was the absolute, very best, none-can-be-rated-higher winner. That's what "Best" means. So what we can fairly conclude from Taylor Swift's win is that, no matter what else, Taylor Swift's music video was better than Beyonce's. And this isn't just opinion... that's what whatever committee in charge of deciding these things has said too. And while we can agree or disagree all we like, they invented the "Best Female Video" trophy and they can give it to whomever they wish... and, as I'm sure they will confirm, they give that trophy only to the woman who made the absolute best music video all year.
But then, Beyonce won "Music Video Of the Year".
"Music Video Of The Year" transcends gender boundaries- it is considered to be the Very Best Video, better than every single other video made that entire year by anyone, regardless of gender. If you take all the music videos made in that year and throw them into a pile, the winner of "Music Video Of The Year" is the absolute best one you could ever possibly hope to pull out of that pile. Anything less might still be good, but you'll be left with the knowledge that there was an absolutely irrefutable Better Choice.
...wait....
Of all vagina-owning music-video artists, Taylor Swift made The Absolute Best Female Music Video. Nobody with a vagina made a better music video than she did... because if they had, then obviously they would have won Best Female Video. That's what the word "Best" means.
Beyonce, who strangely was nominated for the very same award as Taylor Swift and lost (which, if you ask me, is MTV explicitly stating that Taylor Swift's video is better than Beyonce's), then goes on to win for Music Video of the Year. But since it had already been determined that, no matter what else, Taylor Swift's Female Music Video was absolutely 100% better than Beyonce's Female Music Video, then the only way that Beyonce could have possibly come out on top for Music Video of the Year is.... if she...
I'm pretty sure MTV wants me to think that Beyonce has a penis.
....but I've been thinking back on it, and the VMA nominations just don't make sense.
Taylor Swift won for "Best Female Video". There's an awful lot implied there: of all the music videos put out by female artists (including Beyonce), Taylor Swift's was considered The Best. Of all the other nominations for that category (including Beyonce), Taylor Swift's video was the absolute, very best, none-can-be-rated-higher winner. That's what "Best" means. So what we can fairly conclude from Taylor Swift's win is that, no matter what else, Taylor Swift's music video was better than Beyonce's. And this isn't just opinion... that's what whatever committee in charge of deciding these things has said too. And while we can agree or disagree all we like, they invented the "Best Female Video" trophy and they can give it to whomever they wish... and, as I'm sure they will confirm, they give that trophy only to the woman who made the absolute best music video all year.
But then, Beyonce won "Music Video Of the Year".
"Music Video Of The Year" transcends gender boundaries- it is considered to be the Very Best Video, better than every single other video made that entire year by anyone, regardless of gender. If you take all the music videos made in that year and throw them into a pile, the winner of "Music Video Of The Year" is the absolute best one you could ever possibly hope to pull out of that pile. Anything less might still be good, but you'll be left with the knowledge that there was an absolutely irrefutable Better Choice.
...wait....
Of all vagina-owning music-video artists, Taylor Swift made The Absolute Best Female Music Video. Nobody with a vagina made a better music video than she did... because if they had, then obviously they would have won Best Female Video. That's what the word "Best" means.
Beyonce, who strangely was nominated for the very same award as Taylor Swift and lost (which, if you ask me, is MTV explicitly stating that Taylor Swift's video is better than Beyonce's), then goes on to win for Music Video of the Year. But since it had already been determined that, no matter what else, Taylor Swift's Female Music Video was absolutely 100% better than Beyonce's Female Music Video, then the only way that Beyonce could have possibly come out on top for Music Video of the Year is.... if she...
I'm pretty sure MTV wants me to think that Beyonce has a penis.
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