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This Sunday's MuchMusic Video Awards will be light in actual awards but should make up for it in celebrity high jinks and throngs of screaming teenagers. Chloe kicks off our daily look at the show with her top 5 MMVA Fails.

An award show is planned to the tee. Spur-of-the-moment shenanigans are usually plotted beforehand and the unexpected is, well, usually expected. But what producers can't control are singers who can't perform.

The MTV Music Awards may have Britney's hair-raising dud, but the MuchMusic Video Awards have had their fair share of terrible musical moments - and we love them for it. Here are our top five most cringe-worthy MMVA moments of recent years.

5. Nick Lachey
I love '90s boy bands (Backstreet Boys forever!), so I'm not picking on Nick just because he still thinks he's in one. But his cheesetastic performance of "What's Left of Me" in 2007 left me cringing. The half-hearted fist pumps and the agonizing drops to the floor made me think I was watching a tryout for a really bad teen band. Isn't Nick 30 years old?

The song is supposedly inspired by his split with Jessica Simpson, but the way he was singing it, you would think he never got a divorce. I will give him credit for singing live, but dude has to amp up his moves.

4. Girlicious
Whereas the Pussycat Dolls have killer moves, tight choreography and most importantly Nicole Scherzinger, Girlicious have...none of those. The lip-synching is expected, but does the track have to sound like it was generated by a Commodore 64?

And does the dancing have to be so uninspired? My 16-year-old cousin moves with more enthusiasm then these so-called professionals. All the girls can do is shake their money-makers. And still, the Pussycat Dolls do it so much better.

3. Fergie
From her first "la da das," you know it's going to be bad. Fergie may have great songs, but she could have used the Black Eyed Peas' help at the MMVAs in 2007. Her voice strains and cracks when she attempts the high notes, so she tries to make up for her vocal missteps by growling.

Her songs are supposed to be high energy, but she barely moves around the stage preferring to stroll and shake her hips a little. Even Britney at her worst put more effort into it.



2. Avril Lavigne Mooning
This is not technically a musical performance but a performance nonetheless. Playing off her butt crack slip from the year before, in 2003 Avril decides to show off her cheeks again with the letters MMVA emblazoned across her derriere. No one wants to see that, Avril!

Even at the height of her success, I don't think many people thought "that's hot" when she pulled down her pants. Definitely one of the most cringe-worthy moments in the award show's history.

1. Ashlee Simpson
But not even Avril's moon can outshine Ashlee Simpson's 2005 performance of "Lala", itself one of the most obnoxious songs ever written. Ashlee is off-key, out of tune, and screeches her way through the song.

On top of that, she doesn't know what to do with herself on stage, so she alternates between touching herself like an amateur stripper and gyrating on the floor. It's incredibly painful to watch, but you can't turn away from this train wreck. At least Ashlee seems to have recognized her shortcomings and has since chosen to focus on non-musical pursuits.

So tell us: What are your worst MMVA memories? Do you disagree with our list?