The awards show just ended and it was killer to say the least!

Check out the fashion here.

To sum up the night:

Video of The Year: Single Ladies, Beyonce
Best New Artist: Lady Gaga
Best Hip Hop Video: We Made You, Eminem
Best Male Video: Live Your Life, T.I. feat. Rihanna
Best Pop Video: Womanizer, Britney Spears
Best Rock Video: 21 Guns, Green Day
Best Female Video: You Belong with Me, Taylor Swift
Best Video that Should Have Won a Moonman: Sabotage, Beastie Boys
Breakthrough Video: Lessons Learned, Matt & Kim
Best Art Direction: Paparazzi, Lady Gaga
Best Choreography: Single Ladies, Beyonce
Best Cinematography: 21 Guns, Green Day
Best Direction: 21 Guns, Green Day
Best Editing: Single Ladies, Beyonce
Best Special Effects: Paparazzi, Lady Gaga

Of course, the show was stolen by my top four moments:
1. Kanye West taking the mic from Taylor Swift during her win for Best Female Video and announcing Beyonce as the right full winner.
2. All four outfits by Lady Gaga.
3. Taylor Swift's adorable subway performance.
and
4. Pink's sky high show.

Its been a long, loud night.

I suppose I'm a little too indie for the VMA's,
there's hardly ever a band on there that I like, much less a video I actually think is decent-
however I am pretty excited to see Muse perform tonight!

Although I can't say that the other half of CTS has the same views on the awards show,
we've both decided to put together our own Top Five Video Countdown lists-
basically who we thought deserved an award for their videos.

You can check out the videos here.

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I grew up driving in the backseat of an old Station Wagon listening to my dads music play through speakers that were...
well, less then brilliant.
It's no wonder the likes of the Walkmen and Interpol wore off on me.
And I couldn't be happier they did.

A few days ago I was skipping through my newest episode of MTV2's Subterranean (definitely check it out) for the third time when I finally watched a certain video with a certain familiar looking lead singer the whole way through.
Well, not quite.

It o...
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