Jimmy Fallon presents the award for Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, in NY. “‘That’s right, take Taylor, ‘ and I’m like, ‘Bro, I love all y’all, that’s why I called her” …
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– Video of the year: Beyonce, “Formation”. I see you Amber.
The superstar then draped her shoulders in a spotted black and white fur for “Don’t Hurt Yourself”, concluding the number surrounded by flames. So let’s relive these epic performances and figure out which one really was superior, shall we?
Her album “Glory” had released on 26 August and the track “Make Me” from it was out few weeks back, and there were no prizes for guessing that Britney would be performing to the number. This year it is being awarded to Rihanna, who split up her performances throughout the night, singing hits such as “Work”, “We Found Love” and “Love on the Brain”.
Rihanna and Drake are the Sam and Diane of the twenty-first century. She also received Drake’s heart, rather, message and confession of love on stage before thousands of people and a million others watching through live streams. She is among my best friends on the planet.
“Pray You Catch Me” launched the spectacle, which looked like a fever dream from which she emerged to shake for “Hold Up”.
Taking a different approach to red carpet glamour was songstress Alicia Keys, who made headlines earlier this year when she announced she would be going make-up free.
Moments later, Kanye mentioned that his role models are “artists” and “merchants”, then proceeded to name them: “Truman, Ford, Hughes, Disney, Jobs, West”. But now my success is not my own. “It’s my family, my fans, my country … it’s women, it’s black women”.
The sexy routine also saw G-Eazy get involved, with Britney placing her perfectly manicured hand on the rapper’s crotch at one point. Not only did she lip sync, in typical fashion, but she did so badly. Beyonce practically put on a whole concert during her performance, singing “Pray You Catch Me”, “Hold Up”, “Sorry,” “Don’t Hurt Yourself”, and “Formation” – and there was never a tiresome moment.
Beyoncé on Sunday dominated the MTV Video Music Awards as she won a near-record award haul and awed the audience with a fiery dance medley that carried an unstated political message. I’m always wishing for Beyonce to win, so. “Have a lovely night”.
The rapper gave the speech before debuting the video for song Fade.
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West, who famously jumped on stage to interrupt Taylor Swift at the VMAs in 2009, didn’t perform, but instead took the time to explain his controversial music video “Famous”.
