Over the course of her 11-plus-year career, Rihanna has been nominated for 23 VMAs and won four, including two Video of the Year Moonmen for “Umbrella” (2007) and “We Found Love” (2012).
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Beyonce’s wins included best female video, pop video, breakthrough long-form video, choreography, direction, cinematography and editing.
It was a big night for Rihanna, who won the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award, a kind of lifetime achievement award.
“First of all I’d like to thank my lovely daughter and my incredible husband for all of their support”, she said during one acceptance speech.
But nearly as incredible as her decade of hits and breakthrough music videos, was the completely swoon-worthy introduction Drake gave the “Work” singer in front of millions of live viewers.
Opening the show in a Hood By Air get-up, the Barbados native then showed her versatility with several performance looks throughout the ceremony! All my adult life I have looked up to her even though she is younger than me.
“So many people feel like their little piece is such a major part of this puzzle and I have to thank you guys for supporting me, over and over…”.
She rocked a sultry sheer yellow number and performed, “Make Me” and then “Me Myself and I” alongside G Easy.
The odd, sexy video was the talk of Twitter with plenty of women and men gaping over her incredible figure, which is all the more incredible because she gave birth to her daughter less than a year ago.
In video footage posted on Instagram by an MTV employee, the Canadian rapper just catches his balance and recovers from the stumble with a little fancy footwork, as Rihanna laughs off his clumsiness.
Comedian Jimmy Fallon introduced the Video of the Year by dressing up as Lochte and singing Justin Bieber‘s “Sorry”.
Adele was behind Beyonce with eight nominations. Fifth Harmony was a double victor, taking home song of summer and best collaboration video.
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Beyonce brought the audience to its feet with a show-stopping selection of songs from “Lemonade”.
