MTV MVA Betting Odds - Video Of The Year

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This Sunday sees the 2005 MTV Music Video Awards take place in Miami, and if you’ve been following our betting odds coverage, you’ll have built up an encyclopedic knowledge of who’s favourite to take each trophy.

Today is the last day of our MVA betting odds, and we’ve saved the best category for last. We’re going to be looking at the top banana, the big kahuna, the cream of the crop. It’s time to find out who’s up for Video Of The Year. Which musicians have made the single most awe-inspiring music video of the last twelve months?

Let’s take a look at the latest odds for the nominees in the MTV MVA Video Of The Year category, with a little bit of help from Betfair.com…

Coldplay: Speed Of Sound - X&Y, Speed Of Sound’s parent album,
has sold roughly six copies for every single human being on Earth. It’s
easy to see why, it sounds big and it’s not very taxing. Especially the
lyrics, which are uniformly cack. It’s harder to understand why Speed
Of Sound is a contender for Video Of The Year; it’s just a bog-standard
performance by the band in front of some neon tubes while Chris Martin
does his trademark cod-Messianic shtick. Current odds - 35/34

Gwen Stefani: Hollaback Girl - As well as teaching the youth of
today how to spell the word banana, we like this video because -
although it starts off as a generic "top down in the hood" vid, it
quickly turns into something a lot weirder, with a marching band
following Gwen around a supermarket. Plus she’s dressed as a
cheerleader in it. However, as good as the video is, Gwen’s boycotting
the MVAs this year, so it’s unlikely that she’ll win. Current odds -
Evens

Snoop Dogg w/Pharrell: Drop It Like It’s
Hot - Rolf Harris should sue for copyright infringement: this song has
all kinds of clippy-cloppy mouth noises in it. If it didn’t have a man
talking about shit and pimps and stuff in it, it’d be the spitting image of
the Rolf’s Cartoon Club theme-tune. Hard to see why this is on the
shortlist - although it looks nice, nothing actually happens in it.
Current odds - 4/5

Green Day:
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Lots of people like Green Day - even if
the singer does sound like a cartoon dog swallowing it’s own tongue. We
said this yesterday, but we’ll repeat it: Why, when the song is pretty
much the line "I walk alone" all the time, does the video consist of
three men walking together? Either change the video to people walking
alone, or change the line to "three of us kind of saunter around
together in a vigorously rehearsed nonchalant way". Current odds - 1/2

Kanye
West - Jesus Walks: Kanye West is certainly the man of the moment. His
new album comes out on Monday, and people are still queueing up to give
him awards for his last one. We still haven’t worked out which Jesus
Walks video is up for the award - the one in a church, the one with
Jesus creeping about behind Kanye, or the one where the KKK man
accidentally sets himself on fire. Either way, Kanye is joint-favourite
to win. Current odds - 1/2

That’s it - no more MTV MVA odds from us. Next stop: The Emmys. The MTV awards take place on Sunday, so you have until then to head over to the USA Special Bets section of Betfair.com to place all manner of bets. Good luck.

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