Yes, the MTV Music Video Awards remains the wildest award show on planet earth where anything goes and often, nothing is predictable!
So what were the highlights this year? Well I started watching the ceremony right from the pre-show to the main event but because of the time difference with America, I couldn’t stay up throughout the night -well partly because of the long breaks and the annoying shouting and screaming of hosts/presenters.
But here is what I know courtesy of the worldwide web!!!
Michael Phelps loves hiphop
Michael Phelps revealed the song that inspired #PhelpsFace. Remember the record-breaking medalist’s fierce stare of determination during the Summer Olympics in Rio? Phelps said while he was creating the face, he was listening to Future’s 2015 song “Stick Talk.” The swimmer made the revelation while introducing the rapper, who went onto perform a number of his songs, including “F— Up Some Commas.”
Yes Drake loves Rihanna
Drake presented Rihanna the Michael Jackson Vanguard award 2016 and before he handed the award to her, he said: “She’s someone I’ve been in love with since I was 22 years old, she’s one of my best friends in the world. All my adult life I have looked up to her even though she is younger than me. She is a living and breathing legend of our Industry…”
Another kind of love…Ariana Grande and Mac Miller more than just friends?
Days after Ariana Grande was photographed kissing Mac Miller, it seems that she and the rapper are getting closer than ever. Still, by Sunday night at MTV’s Video Music Awards the two were inseparable. Grande even addressed their relationship during the pre-show during an interview. When asked about Miller’s whereabouts, Grande said he was “being supportive.”
make me as happy as @MacMiller looking at @ArianaGrande pic.twitter.com/cpj36qhf30
— K.I.D.S (@N_anderson2123) August 29, 2016
Kanye The Menace
A speech from the always-unpredictable Kanye West is either great fun or a great reason to change the channel. This Sunday, it was a little bit of both. Fans and foes weren’t totally disappointed, however. These were some of the highlights of his 4-minute or so speech:
1. After musing about the “audacity” of fame – and namechecking Vogue editor Anna Wintour and presidential candidate Donald Trump – West crowed abruptly, “I see you, Amber,” and pointed to his former girlfriend Amber Rose, who was in the audience. Following a quick camera shot of Rose’s stiff smile, West cheerfully added, “My wife” – i.e., Kim Kardashian West – “is a G” for letting him give a shout-out to his ex.
2. West also called out his on/off nemesis, Taylor Swift, with whom he has infamously been embroiled in conflict for most of this year regarding his provocative single “Famous.” “I love all of y’all,” he noted. “That’s why I called her.” Swift herself was not in attendance to react, nor did she reply at press time on social media.
3. West attempted to touch on social issues, referring to the recent violence in his hometown of Chicago last week. However, he twisted the commentary into an odd discussion regarding the importance of role models, naming his own… and including himself in the bunch: “Truman, Ford, Hughes, Disney, Jobs, West. Wow!”
4. The audience, per usual, responded to West’s proclamations in typical silent “what was that?” fashion, save West’s proud wife, Kim, who reacted with tears and applause.
Beyonce vs Britney Spears
How did two of MTV Music Video Awards most decorated and revered female performer, Britney Spears and Beyonce match up to each other?
For her first VMAs performance in nine years, Spears spent half the number playing backup to her duet partner, G-Eazy … not exactly a huge show of confidence on MTV’s part in her ability to pull her own weight. Worse, Spears’s lip-synched vocals on “Me, Myself and I” — presumably recorded specifically for this occasion — sounded like they were being piped in from Mars. When she squatted behind the rapper and reached her hand through his legs, it looked like she was having trouble finding his crotch for a moment. But actual disaster was averted, and she can still whip that mane like nobody’s business, which may be good enough to sell more Vegas tickets, if not necessarily copies of Glory.
The opening of Beyoncé’s epic Lemonade condensation also began with some overhead shots, with her angelically dressed backup dancers falling one by one (or two by two) in sudden baths of red, presumably cut down by the infidelity that is the subject of the song. If she’d stopped right there, it would have been the highlight of the night, but there were still about 12 minutes to go in her performance.
The closing segment of Bey’s Lemonade megamedley had her dancers seen from overhead, Busby Berkeley-style, forming the ♀ symbol. Feminism, meet marching-band precision!
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