The American Music Awards have long been about this country’s greatest virtues: popularity and blazer-heavy dance battles. The Dick Clark-produced extravaganza began in the 1970s, and the program’s top-honored music group of all time is not Pink Floyd, U2 or Radiohead, but the Backstreet Boys. And that’s fine! Alison Krauss can win her goddamn statue some other day. But after this morning’s nomination announcement for the 2009 ceremony, the popularity contest turned a strange corner as Michael Jackson was nominated for five awards, including two for his 2003 greatest hits album Number Ones. Movieline uncovers the explanation, as well as the chilliest award speech in AMA history, after the jump.
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