MTV EMA Winners (Reviews - Music)
In
Berlin, RedKarpet watched U2 and Jay-Z (above) storm the Gate while
Beyoncé emerged as the major winner of the evening at the 2009 MTV
Europe Music Awards (EMAs) with three EMA trophies; Best Female, Best
Song and Best Video - at Berlin's O2 World on 5 November. Sat Bal (9
Nov'09)
Eminem won the coveted Best Male category at the Awards, which honours and celebrates Europe’s contemporary music stars, while Jay-Z
triumphed in the Best Urban category. U2 clinched the Best Live Act –
scoring their third EMA award win since the MTV Europe Music Awards
debuted in 1994.
(Below) Buddies Shakira & Beyoncé at the EMAs
The creative, but absent, Lady Gaga was honoured in the Best New Act category while Green Day scored a victory over the Best Rock contenders. Best Group went to German rockers Tokio Hotel,
who also wowed the 9,000-strong crowd with their hit The World Behind
My Wall, culminating in an explosive pyrotechnical display and the
band’s instruments consumed by flames.
Placebo captured the Best Alternative prize while Turkey’s maNga carried off the crown for Best European Act. Best World Stage Performance was won by Linkin Park while Pixie Lott
was pronounced the first ever MTV Push Artist – both categories were
added to this year’s EMAs for the first time in recognition of the
artists who have been championed by MTV on their global music
franchises.
Held in Berlin to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 2009 EMAs also featured Leona Lewis, Foo Fighters, Shakira and U2, broadcasting to more than 500 million households around the world.
The EMAs burst into life with openers Green Day, followed by Katy Perry’s irreverent mash-up of the five Best Song contenders that included Beyoncé’s monster hit Halo and Kings of Leon’s Use Somebody.
(Above) Tokio Hotel set the place alight
The
hostess kept her wardrobe team busy with circa 12 costumes and looks
inspired by burlesque and Liza Minnelli’s Oscar-winning appearance in Cabaret,
the novel which lifted the lid on decadent 1930’s Berlin. Cameras cut
to Katy in a crystal-covered bowler hat, reclining in a giant cocktail
glass and or soaring high above the audience on a glittering half-moon
shaped swing.
Rock icons U2 brought Berlin to a standstill with
their performance which was beamed into the show from the city’s
historic Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of peace and reconciliation to
people around the world and site of the first ever EMAs.
Some 10,000 music fans lapped up U2 chestnuts Sunday, Bloody Sunday and the inspired Magnificent and One – the haunting anthem inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
(Pic) Soul singer Joss Stone hosted digital show 2009 EMA
Foo Fighters' rock medley of Wheels and All My Life had the crowd captured as did Colombian siren Shakira with her steamy performance of Did It Again, performed with dancers dressed only in skimpy towels.
This year's sponsors were Sony Ericsson, Dell and MTV Games/Harmonix's The Beatles:Rock Band.
MTV's Shoeperstars
We
all know that a girl can never have enough shoes - and the red carpet
girls below proved this to dazzling effect. Will this collection
inspire a new award category of "Best Red Carpet Heels?" Over to you,
MTV...
Brought to heel : Pixie Lott in D&G Shakira in Gianni Versace's final collection
Joss Stone, suited & booted Juliette Lewis in Rock Chick workwear
EMA '09 Winners
Best Male: Eminem
Best Female: Beyoncé
Best Urban: Jay-Z
Best Group: Tokio Hotel
Best Video: Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Best Song: Beyoncé – Halo
Best Rock: Green Day
Best New Act: Lady Gaga
Best Live Act: U2
Best Alternative: Placebo
MTV Push Artist: Pixie Lott
Best World Stage Performer: Linkin Park
Best European Act: maNga
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