Date: 3 August 2010
Lady Gaga wins record 13 MTV video music nominations
via_MTV_Lady Gaga may just have to get used to this.
Just one year after crashing the Video Music Awards with eight nominations, the “Alejandro” singer has upped the ante once again by piling up a record 13 noms for this year’s VMAs. Not only did she set a new bar for total nominations, Gaga also became the first female artist nominated for two different clips in the coveted Video of the Year category for “Bad Romance” and “Telephone.
Recently she said, “I’ll tell you what we have to do about SB 1070,” Gaga continued. “We have to be active. We have to actively protest, and the nature of the Monster Ball is to actively protest prejudice and injustice, and the bullshit that is put on our society.” “I will not cancel my show,”
Gaga told her Phoenix fans. “I will yell, and I will scream louder, and I will hold you, and we will hold each other, and we will peacibly protest this state. Do not be afraid, because if it wasn’t for all of you immigrants, this country wouldn’t have shit.”
In breaking records she is also able to speak to the masses of music fans, globally.. so, regardless of your taste, her reach looms large, for now.
As Andy Warhol said: 15 minutes of fame, alternatively famous for 15 minutes, is short-lived, often ephemeral, media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression was coined from Andy Warhol, who said in 1968 that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
but then, having reached the one billion online video views, may indeed help keep the gaga lady in the media for many years to come.
The company maintains a list that it calls “The 100 Million Views Club.” It’s populated by “franchises” and online videos that have achieved at least 100 million views and according to the Visible Measures, Gaga is the first to join the “The Billion Views Club.”
