What’s up guys, it’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver Music, and the VMA’s are this
Sunday, so while we’re excited to tune into the show and see the winners, there were also
some major snubs this year!
Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga led the nominations this year with nine each, followed by Billie
Eilish and The Weeknd, who each received six nominations.
But not all artists saw the same treatment in the major categories for the 2020 VMA’s.
Starting with Dua Lipa, who had a huge year, as she dropped her highly anticipated album,
‘Future Nostalgia,’ along with three music videos that blew us all away.
Many fans were upset that Dua wasn’t given a nomination for Artist of the Year, or even
Song of the Year, as we all know that ‘Don’t Start Now’ is basically one of the best
breakup songs of this year!
Fans took to Twitter sharing their disappointment.
One fan wrote, “Dua Lipa isn’t nominated for Artist of The Year at the VMA’s now
that is a big snub.”
Another fan tweeted, “We don’t need a devalued award to validate the fact that Dua
Lipa is the artist of the year.’”
And other fans were upset at the fact that male artists like Justin Bieber and DaBaby
are nominated for best artist of the year instead.
Like this fan who tweeted, “dua lipa the most streamed female artist and 3rd overall
who has one of the biggest hits of 2020 (dont start now) and the best music video this year
(physical) didnt get nominated for artist of the year or any other category meanwhile
justin who’s last hit song was 5 yrs ago and dababy who’s a one hit wonder got nominated
for artist of the year..
sexist much??.”
But Dua was nominated in four technical categories, including Best Direction for ‘Don't Start
Now,’ Best Art Direction, Visual Effects, and Best Choreography for ‘Physical.’
And Harry Styles was snubbed this year as well.
He originally received three nominations, none of which are in any of the major categories.
Harry’s 2020 VMA’s nominations include Best Direction, Art Direction, and Visual
Effects for his hit, ‘Adore You.’
But with his hugely successful hits including ‘Watermelon Sugar’ and ‘Adore You,’
which are both part of his 2019 album, ‘Fine Line,’ fans were upset that the singer didn’t
get more recognition from MTV.
MTV recently announced that Harry’s ‘Watermelon Sugar’ is nominated for song of the Summer.
But fans weren’t thrilled, with one fan replying by saying, “Video of the year would
be better.”
And other fans believe that MTV only nominated Harry for Song of the Summer after he declined
to perform at the show.
One fan wrote, “oh so now you want to nominate him after he declined to perform?
no thanks.
tired of him being looked at as a pretty face.
bye. call him when you want to actually recognize his work.”
And this fan shared similar sentiments, writing, “U obviously nominated him because he declined
performing and u tryna cover up the fact u didn’t nominate him for anything and asked
him to preform.
I’m glad he knows his worth.”
Fans were also surprised when the music video for Normani’s ‘Motivation’ was snubbed
of a Video of the Year nomination.
While she did receive one nomination for Best Choreography, she was snubbed in other major
categories.
And when MTV shared this throwback clip of Normani’s incredible 2019 VMA’s performance
of the song, fans weren’t thrilled.
One fan replied by saying, “y’all literally post her every week but when it comes to nominated
her in main or pop category it’s crickets chilee.”
And another fan tweeted, “what about to stop tweeting her name just to gain likes
or wtv and start nominating her and give her real recognition??”
Selena Gomez came back to music with a bang last year with her beautiful and subtle music
video for ‘Lose You To Love Me,’ which became an instant fan favorite.
But the song didn’t get any recognition at this year’s VMA’s.
Instead, her most recent single, ‘Boyfriend,’ is nominated for Best Art Direction.
Some fans tweeted things like, “@MTV @vmas please never tweet about Selena Gomez again.
Stop using her for clout.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH” to share their frustration with the lack of recognition for Selena at
this year’s show.
And when another awards show posted that Selena is nominated for multiple major categories,
this fan replied by saying, “@vmas take notes.”
While Halsey received two nominations for this year’s VMA’s, fans were expecting
much more recognition, as her 2019 album ‘Manic’ was accompanied by multiple great hits and
powerful music videos.
Her nominations include Best Pop Song for ‘You Should Be Sad’ and Best Editing for
‘Graveyard,’
While we wish that Halsey was nominated for more awards this year, we are happy that she
at least received two noms.
In 2018, she replied to a fan who asked her why she wasn’t at the VMA’s.
Halsey answered by saying, “bc I directed all my own music videos this album just to
have @MTV “#wcw” me to death and not nominate me for anything so it didn’t feel right
to go.
I’m happy you guys liked the videos.
That’s all that matters to me.”
Let’s just hope MTV learned their lesson with that one!
And Miley Cyrus was also snubbed this year, as ‘Mother’s Daughter’ was only nominated
in two technical categories for best art direction and best editing, while her widely loved hit
‘Slide Away’ wasn’t nominated for any VMA awards.
And fans are excited for Miley’s performance this year at the VMA’s, but also tweeted
things like, “The way VMAs r using her for promo wish they could’ve nominated her for
slide away.
Well she'll kill it as usual.
Can't wait #MidnightSky.”
And last but certainly not least, BTS, being one of the biggest and most talented bands
in the world, was snubbed of the three major VMA’s categories this year.
They were nominated in three categories for their song, ‘On,’ for Best Pop, Best Choreography,
and Best KPOP, which is actually a controversial category, as some fans feel that the category
creates a barrier between KPOP artists and universal recognition.
The BTS Army took to Twitter to share their frustration, with one fan writing, “BTS
is snubbed for Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year and other categories
by the 2020 MTV @vmas where is the diversity!?”
Another Army member said, “for like the second year in a row the vmas snubbed bts
from main categories that they literally have the sales and fame to be in.. all because
bts is korean.”
And while we know there were many other artists who were snubbed for this year’s VMA’s,
now I want to turn it over to you.
Who else deserved nominations they didn’t receive?
And are you looking forward to this year’s show?
Sound off in the comment section below.
After that, click right over here to find out why Roddy Ricch backed out of performing
at this year’s show!
Thanks for watching Clevver Music, I’m Sussan Mourad and I’ll see ya next time!