American pop star Taylor Swift won seven statuettes at the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday night. Overall, she already has the same number of them as Beyoncé, the most in the forty-year history of this award.
Taylor Swift takes home the top award for music video of the year at Wednesday’s ceremony thanks to her somber black-and-white video for the track Fortnightfilmed with rapper and singer Post Malone. The clip takes place in a mental hospital. “I wanted to show you what was going through my head when I came up with this music,” said the author. She included the song on this year’s album The Tortured Poets Department.
At the anniversary ceremony, she remembered the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Later, Taylor Swift thanked her friend, American football player Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs team. “When you watch the clip, it looks really sad, but it was actually a lot of fun filming it,” she added as she accepted the statuette. It traditionally has the shape of an astronaut walking on the surface of the moon.
One of America’s biggest celebrities also thanked fans and urged them to come to the US presidential election in November. The ceremony took place on the same day when Taylor Swift posted on the social network Instagram she supported Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. However, she did not mention it by name at Wednesday’s gala.
Thirty-four-year-old Taylor Swift now has 30 MTV Video Music Awards to her name, just like Beyoncé. On Wednesday, she also received awards for artist of the year and hit of the year. She was nominated for the main award for the video clip of the year for the fifth time in history, and also for the third time in a row. In 2022, she received it for a longer version of the song All Too Welllast year for the track Anti-Hero.
The MTV Video Music Awards have been awarded by the music television of the same name since 1984. They became famous, for example, for the moment when on stage they kissed singers Madonna and Britney Spears or when Lady Gaga on the red carpet she arrived in clothes made from pieces of raw beef.
Twenty-six-year-old Chappell Roan became the discovery of the year. | Photo: Reuters
From this year’s ceremony, the award for the discovery of the year goes to the twenty-six-year-old singer Chappell Roan, who drew attention to herself with the song Good Luck, Babe. In her acceptance speech, she endorsed “all the queer kids in the American Midwest that you’re watching right now, I understand you because I’m one of you,” she declared.
The song of the year was recorded by Sabrina Carpenter, she succeeded with a hit Espresso. The best video in the k-pop category, which is a South Korean genre, went to singer and dancer Lisa, known from the girl group Blackpink, for the hit Rockstar. South African Tyla rejoices in the Afrobeats genre with the song Waterand in the category of Latin American music, the Brazilian Anitta with a song A thousand times.
Rapper Eminem opened the ceremony. He performed the song live Houdini from recent album The Death of Slim Shady, before being joined by country singer Jelly Roll over the telebridge to perform their hit Somebody Save Me together.
Katy Perry also performed live, wearing a dress with giant plastic wings she sang hits Teenage Dream or Firework. She also received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, which was presented to her by her husband, actor Orlando Bloom. They shared a long kiss in front of the camera. “Thank you MTV for believing in how weird I am from the beginning,” the singer said.
Video: Taylor Swift’s award-winning music video for Fortnight
The top award for music video of the year went to Taylor Swift thanks to the video for the song Fortnight. | Video: Republic Records
