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2010 AMA NOMS...
The nominees for the "38th Annual American Music Awards" were announced yesterday. This is the biggest 'competitor' to the Grammys....and this year, EMINEM and LADY ANTEBELLUM tied for the most nominations with five apiece.

JUSTIN BIEBER was next with four...and KATY PERRY, KE$HA, USHER and rapper B.O.B. followed with three each.

Yes, Bieb seriously got more nominations than Katy, Usher, and B.o.B
If he WINS more than them, THAT will be a true travesty!

Eminem and Justin will face off in three categories...including the top award, Artist of the Year. LADY GAGA is also up for that, along with Katy Perry and Ke$ha. And any of those artists deserve the crown far more than Justin, let's be honest...

AMA nominees are determined using a formula that weighs artists' music sales, prevalence on radio and TV, Internet streams and videos...plus, "additional online metrics," which includes "social-media activity."

ABC will air the ceremony live on Sunday, November 21st.

As usual, YOU will choose the winners. Voting is open NOW at AMAvote.com. You'll have to provide an email address to register before casting your vote.

NOMINATIONS AND MY COMMENTARY:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
--Justin Bieber
--Eminem
--Ke$ha
--Lady Gaga
--Katy Perry

ROB THOUGHTS: Tough call. You could probably rule out the Bieb right away. Ke$ha had much success, but not as much as the others. I bet it goes to Lady Gaga, but 2009 was her year. Not 2010. Eminem should get it, in my opinion, though I wouldn't hate it going to Katy P.



BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST:
--B.o.B
--Justin Bieber
--Taio Cruz
--Jason Derulo
--Ke$ha
--Lady Antebellum
--Travie McCoy
--Mike Posner

ROB THOUGHTS: Travie was with Gym Class for several years so I say no to him. Who should get this? I'm going with B.o.B or Mike Posner. While I like Taio and Derulo, they didn't really hit as hard as B.o.B, and re-ignite an entire genre of music as he did with hip-hop.
But, I bet Lady A wins this.



FAVORITE MALE ARTIST - POP / ROCK:

--Justin Bieber
--Eminem
--Usher

ROB THOUGHTS: Eminem or Usher. I like Usher here.



FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST - POP / ROCK:

--Ke$ha
--Lady Gaga
--Katy Perry

ROB THOUGHTS: Katy



FAVORITE BAND, DUO OR GROUP - POP / ROCK:

--Black Eyed Peas
--Lady Antebellum
--Train

ROB THOUGHTS: Train or Peas



FAVORITE POP / ROCK ALBUM:

--"My World 2.0", Justin Bieber
--"Recovery", Eminem
--"Teenage Dream", Katy Perry

ROB THOUGHTS: Eminem. Hard to deny his huge success with this album.



FAVORITE ARTIST - ALTERNATIVE ROCK:
--Muse
--Phoenix
--Vampire Weekend

ROB SAYS: Muse or Phoenix. I'm going Muse.


FAVORITE MALE ARTIST - RAP / HIP-HOP:

--Eminem
--Drake
--B.o.B

ROBBIE SEZ: Em or Drake



FAVORITE RAP / HIP-HOP ALBUM:

--"Recovery", Eminem
--"Thank Me Later", Drake
--"B.o.B Presents", B.o.B

ROB: Give it to Em







MY FUTURE GIRLFRIEND IS ABOUT TO BE IN PLAY...
Celebrity breakups are apparently the big thing this year...because CHRISTINA AGUILERA and her husband, Jordan Bratman, are trying it too.

A so-called "source" says, "Yes they are separated. Right now they're just trying to figure things out. There are no divorce proceedings at this point. They have their ups and downs like all married couples. They argue like everyone else."

Another source says, "They were very much in love. But over the last six months, it became clear they were more like friends than husband and wife."

Christina released a brief statement saying, "Although Jordan and I are separated, our commitment to our son Max remains as strong as ever."

Max will be 3 in January. Christina and Jordan got married in 2005.







RICHTER DOES CONAN...
CONAN O'BRIEN'S longtime sidekick, ANDY RICHTER, will follow him to TBS.

Andy said, "I'm thrilled to be going back to work with Conan...and very excited to start a whole new venture on TBS. However, I am mostly looking forward to getting out of the house again."

And Conan joked, "This decision was made without my authority. I will get to the bottom of this."

The new show starts November 8th!






SEXY VIDS...
Fuse TV recently conducted a survey to determine pop music's "Top 10 Sexiest Video Hotties"...and after over 30,000 votes were counted, BEYONCÉ came out on top. She received the honor for her "Sweet Dreams" video. Which I gotta tell you, is flat out WRONG. Xtina's "Dirrty" is just about the sexiest video of all time in the history of ever. And while it's on the list, it should have beaten Beyonce! As should Womanizer...and Teenage Dream! Anyway...

Here's the Top 10:
#1.) BEYONCÉ, for her "Sweet Dreams" video
#2.) KATY PERRY, for her "Teenage Dream" video
#3.) BRITNEY SPEARS, for her "Womanizer" video
#4.) LADY GAGA, for her "Bad Romance" video
#5.) FERGIE, for her "London Bridge" video
#6.) RIHANNA, for her "Hard" video
#7.) CHRISTINA AGUILERA, for her "Dirrty" video
#8.) PINK, for her "Sober" video
#9.) SHAKIRA, for her "She Wolf" video
#10.) NICKI MINAJ, for her "Massive Attack" video







AKON'S NEW DISC...
AKON'S new album, "Stadium", is scheduled to drop sometime next month.

He chose that title because he's getting BIGGER, apparently. He says, "I started getting bigger, the music kind of grew with it." That musical growth includes a new "worldly" blend of music and beats.

Akon says, "[I'm still] the type of artist that created my music based from my experience. I'm always in Europe, always in Asia, always in India, always in Japan, always in Africa, the U.K., France, and this is the kind of music that I'm exposed to."






T SWIZZLE SAYS "I'M AN A-HOLE"...
We know TAYLOR SWIFT loves to trash her ex-boyfriends in the songs she writes. Well, guess what? She actually wrote a song admitting SHE was the A-hole in the relationship.

It's called "Back to December", and it's on her album "Speak Now". (The song is available now on iTunes. The album drops October 25th.)

Here's what Taylor said about "Back To December", quote, "(It) addresses a first from me in that I've never apologized to someone in song before. Whether it be good or bad or an apology, the person I wrote this song about deserves this.

"This is about a person who was incredible to me, just perfect to me in a relationship, and I was really careless with him. So, this is a song full of words that I would say to him that he deserves to hear."

Taylor didn't say who the song is about...but Popeater.com suggests its "Twilight" stud TAYLOR LAUTNER. As you know, they dated for a while last year, and broke up in...wait for it, December!!!

At the time, they both called it a mutual breakup, but Popeater claims Taylor Swift is the one who ended it because she was feeling smothered.

They cite a rumor going around that Lautner flew to Nashville to surprise Taylor Swift on her twentieth birthday, which was December 13th. But Taylor Swift didn't appreciate the intrusion, and she broke it off.

So now the song "Back to December" comes out and it's no stretch to believe it's about Taylor Lautner. I agree.






HOW TO GET AHEAD...
If you decided to have SWEET, TABOO RELATIONS with your BOSS, do you think it'd help you get promoted? Apparently, for one out of every six people, the answer is a definite YES.

A new survey of American workers found that 17%...or about one out of six...say that they think having an affair with their boss would get them a promotion or a better salary.

And 7%...or about one out of 14...say they've followed through and HAD relations with their boss. For some reason though, the people running the survey didn't ask the follow-up question about whether those people DID get promotions.

The survey also found that only 18% of people are connected to their boss on a social networking site like Facebook or LinkedIn. (Our boss doesn't do the social networking thing)

Of those people, 45% have adjusted their privacy settings to keep some parts of their profile...and photos...blocked from their boss.

91% of people think their boss respects them. (Even though they want to sleep with him or her AND give up access to all the dumb stuff their friends are posting on Facebook? Must be a really forgiving boss.)







SPEAKING OF FACEBOOK...
This is quite ridiculous: An artist named Benjamin Lotan launched a website called PrintingFacebook.com, where he'll print you a poster featuring photos of ALL of your Facebook friends. It only runs $20, plus $6 shipping.

The poster is 20 inches by 40 inches. It can accommodate as few as 200 friends, or up to 2,200 friends. If you have more than that, or you don't want to include all your friends, you can select a specific group of friends you want for the poster. So, I could plaster 912 people on my wall (....my actual wall)

Benjamin says that looking at all of your friends on a poster, "Is totally different from looking at pictures on Facebook. You get drawn into it. It's a trace of everyone you've known or met."

Pffffft!





THE BROWNS ARE THE 26TH MOST-POPULAR NFL TEAM...
The Dallas Cowboys haven't really been Super Bowl contenders in a long, long, long, long, long, long time. But apparently, the fans they made when they WERE champs aren't the bandwagon jumpers!

Harris Interactive just released the results of its annual NFL poll, and for the fourth straight year, the Cowboys are the most popular team in the U.S.

The five most popular teams are the Dallas Cowboys, the Indianapolis Colts, the Green Bay Packers, the P***sburgh Steelers, and the New Orleans Saints.

As expected, everyone jumped on the New Orleans bandwagon last year, after they won the Super Bowl: They made the biggest jump, from the 24th most popular team in 2009, to fifth most popular in 2010.

For the second straight year...and the fifth time in six years...the Jacksonville Jaguars are the LEAST popular NFL team.

The Seattle Seahawks had the biggest drop, from 14th last year to 31st out of the 32 NFL teams this year.

Overall, 53% of Americans say they actively follow professional football. That's up from 51% last year.
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/582/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx






GAGA DID SOPRANO...
LADY GAGA had a tiny part in an episode of "The Sopranos" back in 2001.
(That was the third season. At the time, she was still known as Stefani Germanotta.)

She played "a 15-year-old rebel." (The video just popped up online. You can watch it below. NOT SAFE FOR WORK...there's an F-bomb)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmOeGAQOlPI







TV? DYNAMITE!
Fox has ordered six episodes of a new animated series based on "Napoleon Dynamite". But it isn't going to be just a lame knock-off with no connection to the original movie.

A lot of the stars from the original movie will be back to voice their characters, including Jon Heder as Napoleon, Efren Ramirez as Pedro, Aaron Ruell as Kip Dynamite and Jon Gries as Uncle Rico.

Plus, brothers Jared and Jerusha Hess, who co-wrote the movie, will serve as executive producers. (Jared Hess also directed the movie.)

So just to be clear...this doesn't mean that it can't end up being a lame knock-off with a strong connection to the original movie.

There's no word on when it might premiere. More than likely, it'll eventually end up among Fox's animated lineup on Sunday nights.






LAMBERT IS PROTESTED....
OK. It's that time once again...time for us to tell you about the latest performer whose upcoming concert is being protested by the strict Muslim fundamentalists in Malaysia.

It's ADAM LAMBERT!!!

Usually, these Malaysian protests are over female performers who are known for showing a lot of skin onstage. But as you've probably guessed, their problem with Adam is the fact that he's a gay man.

Although, his onstage wardrobe may very well be a contributing factor.

A spokesperson for an anti-Adam Lambert group says, "[His] shows are outrageous, with lewd dancing and a gay performance that includes kissing male dancers. This is not good for people in our country."

In Malaysia, gay sex is a CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

The concert is scheduled for Thursday, and as of last night, it was still a GO.

Adam has responded on Twitter..."While I don't believe that my Glam Nation tour is in any way offensive, I have agreed to make a few minor adjustments out of respect for the Malaysian government."

He added, "Does my show 'promote the gay lifestyle'? It promotes living ANY lifestyle that includes the freedom to seek love and intimacy. Gay, straight, bi, young or old. It's all inclusive. Plus, what's THE gay lifestyle? There isn't just one.

"There are so many different kinds of gay people. We have a variety of different lifestyles. There's not only one lifestyle lived by straight folks. Generalizing..."






LADIES, YOU WON'T LIKE THIS...
A new study has a theory for why women like to cuddle after sex and men don't.

And unfortunately for the ladies, it comes down to a hard scientific truth: Men are already focused on their next sexual conquest.

The researchers say it's grounded in basic biological instincts: After a woman has sex, her instincts tell her to bond with the man as much as possible, and keep him around in case he just knocked her up.

After a man has sex, his instinct is to do whatever it takes to have sex again as SOON as possible, to try to increase his chances of reproducing as MUCH as possible.

In the study, women almost universally were more into intimate talking, kissing, cuddling, and talking about the state of their relationships after sex.

Men were more into claiming a reward, whether it was smoking a cigarette, watching TV, going to sweet, delicious sleep...or moving on to the next lady.

But, there was one sign that men ARE evolving: Men found it equally important to say "I love you" to their long-term partner after relations.






YES!!!
There's a man who's $1 MILLION richer today...and all he had to do was risk getting shot and killed by a Secret Service marksman.

On Sunday, 24-year-old Juan James Rodriguez STREAKED in front of PRESIDENT OBAMA during a speech in Philadelphia.

A British billionaire named Alki David was offering $1 MILLION to anyone who was willing to perform the stunt while shouting the name of Alki's website six times in front of the president.

I first told you about this offer back in August...but at the time, the prize was $100,000, not $1 MILLION. Looks like upping the stakes finally got someone to risk getting thrown in prison.

That website is Battlecam.com, and it's a fairly generic video-sharing website. In fact, none of us would ever have heard of it without this stunt, so I guess it worked. Alki has confirmed he'll pay Juan once he sees Juan's friend's video of the streak.

On Sunday, Juan stripped down with "Battlecam.com" written across his chubby torso, and started screaming the website while Obama spoke. He was arrested for public nudity, but otherwise it looks like he'll be getting away with it.

Weirdly enough, during Obama's speech, a different man THREW A BOOK at him. The book missed...the Secret Service says that the book was thrown by an excited fan and wasn't a threat.

There's no video yet but we're sure they'll post it eventually!






That'll be it! LOTS of stuff today! Enjoy your humpday!