Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. DJ extraordinaire Norman Cook, received four MTV Video Music Award nominations last Wednesday for his amateur-dance-squad clip "Praise You," including Best Dance Video, Breakthrough Video, and, interestingly enough, Best Choreography.

Before the DJ spun discs for three hours at Woodstock's Saturday night rave, MTV News' John Norris caught up with Cook and talked to him about how the crowd-pleasing video got made.

[article id="1444020"]"The record company really didn't want me to make it,"[/article] Cook told MTV News. [article id="1444020"] "And me and [directors] Spike [Jonze] and Roman [Coppola] really wanted to make it. And I basically just kind of put my finger up to my ear. I said, 'Let's just make a video. Everybody likes really glossy, good, expensive videos. Let's make a useless one that's really funny.' And I'm so glad that kind of people got the joke."[/article]

The 1999 MTV Video Music Awards will be broadcast

live from New York's Metropolitan Opera House on September 9 at 8 p.m. (ET), with Chris Rock returning as host.

For a complete list of VMA nominees, see "Korn, Ricky Martin, Will Smith, TLC Lead 1999 Video Music Award Nominees; Martin, Backstreet Boys, TLC To Perform".

For an interview with Fatboy Slim plus RealVideo of the mixmaster spinning live at Red Rocks, Colorado, be sure to check out the MTV.com feature "KTCL's Rave on the Rocks: Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim".