Britney Spears has had a great comeback and has managed to stay on the wagon, while under the conservatorship of her dungeon master daddy. No tales of her acting like a wayward tween or falling out of clubs in the middle of the night. In fact, the only sign that she may be wobbling is that her weave seems to be a little out of control.
Anyways, Spears has landed seven nominations at the 26th Annual MTV Video Music Awards, including the top category for Video of the Year, but a number of industry insiders are questioning whether or not the pop princess and the video accompanying her hit single Womanizer really deserve quite so many nominations.
“We were surprised she got so many nominations because she has been ‘lip synching’ and while she is talented, the terrain has changed so this may be sympathy nominations because she is getting well,” one baffled industry insider told Fox News on Wednesday.
Some bigwigs in the music world have even suggested that MTV simply handed Britney the massive number of nods to encourage a boost in the VMAs lagging ratings. Britney’s almost career-ending performance at the 2007 Video Music Awards sent viewership sailing up from the year before by more than 41 percent. “Every network is hurting for eyeballs. Britney always draws an audience.” (via Pop Crunch)
I’d say that for the most part I agree. Her new material is hardly worthy of so many nominations in a year with so many more deserving artists coming onto the scene. Pity nominations only degrade the VMA brand further.
The 2009 MTV VMAs airs from Radio Music Hall in NYC, Sunday, September 13.
Image credit to Fame Pictures.
