By JAKE COYLE Associated Press

BEST R&B VIDEO

Nominees: Alicia Keys, ''Karma''; Mariah Carey, ''We Belong Together''; Ciara featuring Ludacris, ''Oh''; Usher & Alicia Keys, ''My Boo''; John Legend, ''Ordinary People.''

Will win: Usher and Alicia Keys. Their back and forth vocals are the '00s answer to Positive K's ''I Got a Man.''

Should win: Alicia Keys is great and all, but she's a little too earnest, too well-meaning for a contemporary R&B crooner. Give me R. Kelly. Or Prince. They're plenty weird. The Artist's ''Cinnamon Girl'' also might have been the only genuinely thought-provoking video in the past 12 months. It stars Keisha ''Whale Rider'' Castle-Hughes as a girl contemplating terrorism.

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video awards?, whens the last time they played a video?

4nowneway said:

My thoughts exactly.

4nowneway said:

Okay, that's getting old. They do play videos. They really do. Sure, they only play them at the wee hours of the morning, when no one would be awake to watch them. And sure, they pretty much loop the same 7 videos constantly in a four hour period. But, they do play them.

"Cinnamon giiiiirll... der der de derrrr de"