This Year's VMAs Have Britney's Head Spins vs. Rihanna's Revenge

-- Grace Chu from AfterEllen.com

 

The nominees for Best Female Video have been announced for the 2008 MTV Music Video Awards, which will air September 7, 2008. This post will outline not-so-obvious things that come in threes in each of the nominated videos.

1) Rihanna “Take A Bow” – Three Sexy Outfits

Before Rihanna torches what appears to be some of her boyfriend’s possessions at the end of the video, she wears three different sexy outfits. Moral of the story: If you are going to exact revenge on your cheating snake of a boyfriend, you should do it in style. Committing arson never looked so good.

 

2) Britney Spears “Piece of Me” – Three Dangerous Head Spins

 

Britney Spears does her patented 360 degree nun-chuck hair whirl three times in the music video for “Piece of Me.” However, I think she needs to be careful. She hasn’t been too stable as of late, and rattling around what’s in her skull would probably be ill-advised.

 

 

3) Katy Perry “I Kissed A Girl” – Three Faux-Bashful Hand Gestures For Being A Faux Lesbian

In the universe of Katy Perry, kissing girls is “not what good girls do.” I suppose this is why she puts her hand up to her mouth in an ostensibly guilty manner not once, not twice, but three times in the video for “I Kissed A Girl.”

 

 

4) Mariah Carey “Touch My Body” – Three Hits On A Computer Geek With Nine Lives

Mariah Carey shoots the guy from 30 Rock (or at least puts him in a laser tag checkmate position) three times in her “Touch My Body” video. Watching Mariah Carey geek out almost makes her human.

 

 

5) Jordin Sparks “No Air” – Three Martyr Poses

Chris Brown becomes so distraught over his fictional break-up with Jordin that he emotes a position of “I-am-so-broken-up-over-this-girl-but-I-must-die-slowly-and-painfully-in-an-exquisitely-poetic-manner”  three times. Poor guy — you really do want to put him out of his misery.

 

 

So, who do you think will win the Moon Man for Best Female Video?