From smooches with aliens to a number of cloned Eminems to jaw-dropping outfits, the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards featured loads of memorable moments. This yr’s present marked the fortieth anniversary since its inauguration in 1984. The evening, hosted by Megan Thee Stallion, was crammed with dancing, singing, and, after all, a number of awards.
Viewers witnessed a contemporary tackle the music awards as first-time winner Chappell Roan took residence the award for ‘Greatest New Artist,’ whereas Katy Perry, the recipient of the 2024 Video Vanguard Award for her excellent profession, delivered a efficiency of a lifetime.
HollywoodLife has rounded up among the most iconic moments from this yr’s VMAs.
Sabrina Carpenter was undoubtedly one of many artists many had been excited to see, as 2024 has been her yr with hit singles like “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Style,” which she carried out in a medley. Throughout her efficiency of her newest observe, that includes Jenna Ortega within the music video, she danced round an alien and an astronaut till, whereas singing “And singin’ ’bout it don’t imply I care / Yeah, I do know I’ve been identified to share,” she playfully pushed the astronaut away and headed for a kiss with the alien.
Karol G had everybody exhibiting off their Latin dance strikes as she carried out her current single “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.” The 33-year-old Colombian singer received your complete viewers on their toes, dancing to the merengue beat. Whereas taking on the VMAs stage, she made her approach to the gang the place trade colleagues like Taylor Swift, Put up Malone, and Camila Cabello had been seated, encouraging them to bounce alongside along with her.
Katy Perry was one of many night’s most distinguished stars, receiving the MTV Video Vanguard Award and becoming a member of previous recipients like Shakira, who was honored in 2023. To have fun her achievements all through her music profession, the 39-year-old singer carried out a medley of her biggest hits, together with “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “Lifetimes,” and extra.
In her heartfelt speech, she thanked her husband, Orlando Bloom, who introduced the award, her daughter Daisy Dove, and her fanbase. She addressed her followers, saying, “My Katy Cats! You stood by me for a lifetime, and the LGBTQ group who I acknowledge I’d not be right here with out and who present me you could be each sort and c**t.”
Megan Thee Stallion boldly recreated Britney Spears’ iconic outfit from her “Slave 4 You” music video, full with an actual snake wrapped round her arms. As the gang went wild, she screamed in concern, “Okay! Okay! Cease the music! Cease the music! I’m simply enjoying — come get this snake. I don’t know this snake, and this snake doesn’t know me.”
Eminem kicked off the fortieth annual occasion in Elmont, New York, with a efficiency of his songs “Houdini” and “Someone Save Me” from his most up-to-date album, The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). His present featured a number of males in blonde wigs resembling his early 2000s Slim Shady look, together with a younger look-alike model of himself.
Taylor Swift received the MTV ‘Video of the 12 months’ award for the third yr in a row for her music video “Fortnight,” that includes Put up Malone. Whereas thanking her staff and the 29-year-old musician for his or her assist in creating the mission, she made positive to provide a particular shoutout to her boyfriend, Travis Kelce. In her speech, she shared, “One thing that I’ll at all times bear in mind is after I would end a take and say ‘minimize,’ I’d at all times hear somebody cheering ‘woo’ from throughout the studio the place we had been capturing, and that one individual was my boyfriend, Travis.”
Chappell Roan reacts to photographer telling somebody to “shut the f*ck up”:
“You shut the f*ck up!”
— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) September 11, 2024
Chappell Roan made headlines final evening after a photographer reportedly shouted, “shut the f**okay up” whereas she was posing on the carpet. The 26-year-old singer instantly responded, pointing a finger on the individual and yelling again, “You shut the f**okay up!”
