In the next case of a bag of mixed reactions, Californian Producer/Rapper Flying Lotus has spoken out on Twitter against the YouTube Music Awards, set to air from the site on November 3.

The awards, which aims to be the new ‘by the people, for the people’ fan-based awards ceremony will be hosted in New York City by beardy heartthrob actor Jason Schwartzman. Organisers have managed to grab a mixed bag of performers for the event including M.I.A, Earl Sweatshirt, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Tyler the Creator and Arcade Fire.

Seemingly unimpressed however, Lotus challenged the reasons for the whole thing on twitter today.

Seems like the YouTube music awards are pretty much the same as the VMAs. I don’t really see the point.

— FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

Accusing YouTube of simply pegging acts that are already popular in an abuse of commercial power, Lotus continued;

They had an opportunity to shine a light on all the artists that they helped to gain notoriety just to shit on them for uber famous acts

— FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

If it’s all about hits sure I get it but let’s be fair. YouTube award nominations clearly don’t care about cutting edge/innovation. — FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

Before doing the obligatory Kanye move,

No disrespect to the nominees yadda yadda

— FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

When considering the categories for awards (below), we kind of see where Lotus is coming from. It seems that the state of popular music awards is pretty dismal as a whole (pretty sure J-Lo took a tumble weed as her date to the last Grammys). But hey, as long as we don’t see any twerking, that’s an improvement right…right…?

Certainly ain’t no Aria’s… Trol. Lets just worship a lock of Flume’s hair.

YouTube Music Awards 2013 Nominations

Video of the Year: Nominees represent the videos with the most fan engagement on YouTube over the last year.

Epic Rap Battles Of History – ‘Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney’
Demi Lovato – ‘Heart Attack’
Girls’ Generation ­- ‘I Got A Boy’
Justin Bieber (feat. Nicki Minaj) – ‘Beauty And A Beat’
Lady Gaga ­- ‘Applause’
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Mary Lambert) – ‘Same Love’
Miley Cyrus ­ – ‘We Can’t Stop’
One Direction – ‘Best Song Ever’
PSY – ‘Gentleman’
Selena Gomez ­ – ‘Come & Get It’

Artist of the Year: Focused on acts YouTube fans have made stars, nominees represent the most watched, shared, liked, and subscribed ­to artists.

Eminem
Epic Rap Battles
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Nicki Minaj
One Direction
PSY
Rihanna
Taylor Swift

Response of the Year: Best fan remix, parody or response video, these nominees represent the top “unofficial” fan videos on YouTube based on views, shares and other social activity.

Boyce Avenue (feat. Fifth Harmony) ­- ‘Mirrors’
Jayesslee ­- ‘Gangnam Style’
Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix ­- ‘Radioactive’
ThePianoGuys ­- ‘Titanium / Pavane’
Walk Off the Earth (feat. KRNFX) – ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’

YouTube Phenomenon: Nominees are based on the phenomena that generated the most fan videos.

Rihanna – ‘Diamonds’
Psy – ‘Gangnam Style’
Baauer – ‘Harlem Shake’
Taylor Swift – ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’
Macklemore – ‘Thrift Shop’

YouTube Breakthrough: Focusing on breakout new acts, nominees represent the artists who experienced the biggest growth in views and subscribers.

Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Naughty Boy
Passenger
Rudimental

Innovation of the Year: Most creative and innovative music videos on YouTube.

Anamanaguchi ­- ‘ENDLESS FANTASY’
Atoms For Peace ­- ‘Ingenue’
Bat For Lashes ­- ‘Lilies’
DeStorm ­- ‘See Me Standing’
Toro Y Moi – ‘Say That’

[via MusicFeed]