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In a move which mirrors last week's Relentless Energy Drink Kerrang! Awards, Paramore and 30 Seconds To Mars are to battle it out once again at the MTV Video Music Awards.30 Seconds To Mars' Kings And Queens and Paramore's Ignorance are both vying for pole position in the Best Rock Video category, while Airplanes - Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams' collaboration with rapper B.o.B - is up against Kings And Queens in the Video Of The Year category.Airplanes is also nominated for the Best Collaboration award, while Kings And Queens has been nominated in the Best Art Direction and Best Direction categories. "I was completely blown away," 30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto told MTV. "It was so unexpected that my first reaction was, 'Holy fucking shit fuck fuck fuck!' We had no idea this was the way these things worked. It was the furthest thing from our minds. And then someone sent me the list of artists we're nominated with, and we couldn't believe that either. It really is exciting. It truly is an honour just to be nominated!"In related news, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown and Muse's Uprising have both been nominated in Best Special Effects category, while Uprising is also up for the Best Rock Video gong.The MTV VMAs will take place at the Nokia Theatre in LA on Sunday, September 12.Who do you think is going to win? Tell us below.
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Paramore is a fucking awesome band. If you can’t understand that, I don’t know what to tell you. They performed great songs they wrote on Good Morning America this morning — their top-10 smash “Ain’t It Fun” followed by mall-punk anthem “Misery Business” (with super-...
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The question is not so much “How did Paramore end up on American Idol?” as “Why did it take them so long to get there?” As I explained at length last month, the Warped Tour scene that carried Hayley Williams and company to stardom was very much a pop star delivery system, and if anyone [...]
Emo-pop survivors Paramore released a self-titled album last year, and that thing has legs. Their new-wavy single “Ain’t It Fun,” which has persistently refused to go away, is one of the best guitar-driven pop hits in recent memory. And last night, the band got one of the rare musical-guest spots on Late Night With ...


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