Wayne Coyne, Blake Shelton, Shiny Toy Guns nominated for MTV’s O Music Awards 2
Wayne Coyne (Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman Archive)
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, country music star Blake Shelton and electronica/indie band Shiny Toy Guns – who all have Oklahoma ties – are nominated for O Music Awards 2, MTV’s second fan-friendly celebration of digital music.
Fan voting continues online at www.omusicawards.com/vote through Oct. 15. The awards will be handed out Oct. 31, with the event streaming at OMusicAwards.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, CMT.com, LogoTV.com and MTVHive.com.
Coyne, leader of Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips, is nominated for The Digital Genius Award, along with Bjork, Girl Talk, Devo and music video director Chris Milk.
An Ada native who lives in Tishomingo, Shelton is nominated for Must-Follow Artist on Twitter, and he is competing against Lady Gaga, Blink 182′s Mark Hoppus, Snoop Dogg and Cher.
Shiny Toy Guns, which includes Shawnee native Jeremy Dawson and Chad Petree, are up for Best Artist With A Cameraphone. Other nominees in the category are Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, The Deftones, Portugal. The Man, Young The Giant, The National, Katy Perry, Amanda Palmer and Ben Folds.
MTV premiered the OMAs in late April, pledging to offer a celebration of digital music that would vary greatly from standard industry award shows. It featured interactive, fan-voted awards that culminated in a live, multiplatform webcast on MTV Music Group websites.
In the spirit of the fast-changing nature of digital music, an MTV official recently told the Associated Press that the OMAs may crop up two or three times a year instead of annually, and the categories will remain in flux and have changed from the spring edition.
For the second OMAs, Lady Gaga and Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator are among the leading nominees, with two nominations each. Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, The Weeknd, Demi Lovato and Sinead O’Connor also received two nominations.
The first OMAs generated 3 million votes cast online and resulted in MTV’s second-largest streaming audience ever, according to the AP.
“The audience is there,” Shannon Connolly, vice president of digital music strategy for MTV, told the AP. “We know we can give them something they love even more.”
-BAM
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