10 September, 2010 - MTV.com
'The first single I ever bought was 'The Real Slim Shady,' Florence Welch admits.By James Montgomery
Florence and the Machine's Florence Welch with MTV News' James Montgomery
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Ever since she was announced as a (rather unexpected) multiple MTV Video Music Awards nominee last month, things have gotten sort of weird for Florence and the Machine's Florence Welch. It's not so much the awards show thing — back in her native U.K., they have become mainstays at shows like the Brits and the Q Awards — as it is the overwhelming number of questions Welch has had to answer about fellow VMA nominees Eminem and Lady Gaga (both of whom have videos up against her "Dog Days Are Over" clip for Video of the Year).