The 2005 JMA Winners

Since 1999, I have done my own version of the Grammy Awards mixed with the Video Music Awards where I pick my favorite album, follow up album, video/song, and new artist in music for each year. This should not be taken seriously, these are just based on the albums and music(from the artists I know and love) that I bought or listened to this year. Artists like Coldplay, Foo Fighters, or Beck are not included on this post because I didn't even listen to their latest albums. So here are the 2005 winners, according to me.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
MESMERIZE- SYSTEM OF A DOWN
JMA Award winner- Best New Artist 1999




















FOLLOW UP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
(Albums that are somewhat better than the last release)
t.A.T.u.- DANGEROUS AND MOVING
JMA Award Winner- Best New Artist of 2003





















SONG(S)/VIDEO(S) OF THE YEAR
TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET Chapters 1-12
R. KELLY




















BEST NEW ARTIST
????
I'll think about this one later because it seems that no new group came out and totally amazed me like others in the past years. With most new artists, or at least artists new to me, I only heard one song such as:
Different- Acceptance
Gravity- Embrace
Slide- Mark de Clive-Lowe
There are a couple artists I would highly consider.
1. Fall Out Boy- I can tell they didn't come, or start, out this year, but probably a lot of people didn't know them before 2005 either.
2. James Blunt- I like the current single "You're Beautiful" but another song named "Goodbye My Lover" totally had me wanting to burst into tears, which I like, after hearing him perform it on SNL.
So I don't know about which one should be the choice, I'll just have to see what these artists do later and then I'll decide the 2005 Best New Artist.

Along with System of A Down & t.A.T.u., here are the other nominees for album of the year.



311's Don't Tread On Me- Excellent album, but I don't want to be too biased on my favorite group every year. 311 has won several JMAs in the past including 1996, 1999, and 2003 Album of The Year.

Family Guy Live In Vegas- Very funny and it's cool to include a comedy album in the category. What a year it's been for Seth MacFarlane and the creators of the popular FOX show: the show comes back funnier than ever and this CD is released.

Daft Punk's Human After All- Probably would of won Album of the Year if it was longer and it had better songs. It absolutely doesn't measure up with their previous release, Discovery from 2001 which won Best Album for that year. I think they made it too quick, it does have two really amazing songs: Human After All & Robot Rock