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... And boy are our hands tired. We have our suspicions, but we, like you, won't know fo sho until this Friday night on FNMTV, when the final nominees in the "Best New Artist" category are announced, along with the "Best Dancing In a Video" noms. Seriously, someone's mom's gonna be super proud when she finds out she's one step closer to getting a Moonman to proudly display on her fridge.

Anyheezy, out of the eight pages (!!?!?!?) of possible VMA Best New Artist nominees, here are 10 of our favorite picks and their A+ videos.

+ OneRepublic, "Stop and Stare" -- Their smash hit "Apologize" is also a contender, but "Stop and Stare" hurts even better.

+ Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love" -- Buckets of sexy, soulful emotion!

+ A Cursive Memory, "Everything" -- Punk'd 2.0!

+ Tokio Hotel, "Ready, Set, Go!" -- Duh...

+ Taylor Swift, "Teardrops on My Guitar" -- Seriously, how could Drew make our little pretty pretty princess cry!?!?

+ Vampire Weekend, "Oxford Comma" -- Wes Anderson + grammar = nerds unite!

+ Kid Sister, "Pro Nails" -- Inspiring us to keep our tips fly!

+ Estelle, "American Boy" -- Inspiring us to up our frequent flyer miles. And ring Kanye about another breezy duet.

+ She & Him, "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" -- Oh, Zooey. Why do you have to be so cute?

+ The Teenagers, "Love No" -- Frothy drinks, rollerskates, sexual tension and lotsa tongue? Yes, please!

More VMAs here.

Tags A Cursive Memory, Celebrity, Estelle, FNMTV, Kid Sister, Leona Lewis, Music, OneRepublic, She & Him, Taylor Swift, The Teenagers, Tokio Hotel, Vampire Weekend, VMAs

Despite a wholesome-enough-sounding name like the Virgins (you've heard them on Gossip Girl -- OMFG! -- about a zillion times), I wouldn't exactly want to watch their "Private Affair" video with my grandma.

The video, which has nothing to do with Jessica Simpson's "Public Affair," (and happy birthday, by the way!) combines elements of:

+ Snoop's "Sensual Seduction" -- that gritty, grainy effect that can only come from taping something on TV straight to a used VHS, if you can remember back that far...

+ ... With the Teenagers' "Love No" video...

+ ... With the fake '80s cable access-ness of Gnarls Barkley's clip, "Run."

Plus: Stroke-a-like guitars; Pet Shop Boys-esque chorus; microphones as male anatomy presented in ways far too blatant to be considered innuendo; yoga performed in ways yoga was not intended; and almost as much ass jiggle as Kanye's "Flashing Lights" video.

Also, lead singer Donald Cumming (a most unvirginal name) reads like a mad scientist-manufactured hybrid of Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta and Deerhunter/ Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox. Also, I need a shower.

Tags Celebrity, Cobra Starship, Deerhunter, Gabe Saporta, Gnarls Barkley, Jessica Simpson, Music, Snoop Dogg, The Strokes, The Teenagers, The Virgins, video, Videos

Watch the French pop trio and their band of jailbait extras glide around on roller skates and eat suggestive snacks in an even more suggestive manner in their tee-hee cheeky new video, and check out photos from the video set on the Subterranean blog.

Tags Celebrity, Music, The Teenagers, video, Videos

We'd enter willingly into Artist of the Week ex-officio Kate Nash's world of candy hearts, kissing booths, creepy furries and adorkable boys (like photographer Wesley Goode, who plays her love interest in the video).

Partizan director Kinga Burza, who also directed Kate's "Mouthwash," "Foundations" and "Caroline's A Victim" videos (as well as videos for The Teenagers and Calvin Harris) gave "Pumpkin Soup" some awesome anime treatment, and the results are sinisterly sweet, in a Murakami-Goes-On-Holiday-To-Wonka-World-And-Cabbage-Patch-Land way.

Check out the video above, read an in-depth interview with Kinga Burza, and watch Kate's exclusive Backstage Pass interviews on mtvU.com.

Tags Calvin Harris, Celebrity, Kate Nash, Music, The Teenagers, The-Teeangers, video, Videos

Next up in a long line of pop songs dedicated to famous folks -- Adam Green's "Jessica Simpson"; Mojo Nixon's "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin"; "Robert De Niro's Waiting" by Bananarama; that weird, annoying, and stalkerish "David Duchovny" song by Bree Sharp; Gorillaz's homages to Clint Eastwood; every song written about or inspired by Winona Ryder; all 19,000 songs written about Elvis; all 10,000 songs about Bob Dylan; and, let's not forget, ABC's cloying "When Smokey Sings," to name just a few -- is a tribute to Scarlett Johansson. It's a sly, softly sexed-up tribute to the actress by the aptly-named French pop band The Teenagers, whose influences include Red Bull, sex (duh), vodka and "ham rollz." Word. We're only surprised it took someone so long.

And speaking of Scarlett, upon her return from visiting an American military base in Kuwait, she coyly thwarted rumors of her engagement to Ryan Reynolds by telling reporters that she's engaged to an altogether different famous man who'll probably also inspire some songwriting of his own: Barack Obama. No word back from Obama's people.

Tags Celebrity, Music, News, Scarlett Johansson, The Teenagers, The-Teeangers, video, Videos