premise: Touch My Body is a music video.
hypothesis: `` Touch My Body '' is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey , taken from her eleventh studio album , E = MC ² ( 2008 ) . `` Touch My Body '' was released as the album 's lead single on February 12 , 2008 . The song 's music video was directed by filmmaker Brett Ratner , who had previously worked with Carey on five other music videos . The music video won in the category of `` Best Comedic Video '' at the 2008 BET Awards , and won the `` MTV Video Vanguard Award '' at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Japan . Additionally , the video was nominated for `` Best Female Video '' at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards .