VMAs Adds New Category for Lyric Videos: MTV's 5 Inaugural Nominees

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Lyrics videos will get some time to shine at the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 24.

MTV has added a new category — Best Lyric Video — and Mashable has learned which five videos are the category's inaugural nominees (see them below).

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"Lyrics are as important to music fans as ever, and the evolution of lyric videos is evidence of that," Amy Doyle, MTV's executive vice president of music and talent programming strategy, told Mashable. "As we started discussing new categories for this year's show we immediately gravitated to celebrating the emerging art form of the lyric video." Read more...

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