Beyonce’s top-notch performance starkly contrasted with that of Spears, who returned to the VMA stage after 10 years. When “Formation” took home the night’s biggest prize, Beyonce dedicated the award to the people of New Orleans.
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Beyonce isn’t afraid to throw a curveball or two: dropping surprise albums, making pregnancy announcements mid-performance, changing the game with visual albums. She’s one of my best friends in the world.
Drake kisses Rihanna after presenting her with the Video Vanguard award.
Beyonce and Rihanna earned more than awards during Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.
Drake and Rihanna are official.
One moment Taylor is doing some sort of 21st-century “Flashdance” homage, then she’s randomly in the shower with some other dude, and finally at the end, she turns into a cat and is sitting among a large flock of sheep. Grande spent the first verse cycling and the second verse catching her breath.
However, he seemingly stamped on her foot by accident as she let out a yelp before checking on the clumsy rapper.
In true Kanye fashion, the rapper ranted onstage, touching on subjects from music to his beef with Taylor Swift to violence in his hometown Chicago before he debuted his music video for “Fade”, which starred Teyana Taylor.
Dressed in a formal tux, the One Dance star told the crowd at New York City’s Madison Square Garden: “The first time I met Robyn Fenty in 2005, she was shooting a music video at a restaurant called Avocado in (his hometown) Toronto”.
“She’s someone I’ve been in love with since I was 22 years old”, Drake added, proceeding to hand Rihanna her award and giving her a hug.
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He’ll have another chance to own the night since his controversial “Famous” music video – featuring what appears to be naked images of West, Swift, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump – is nominated for best male video and video of the year. Sunday, it was hyped, would be Britney’s triumphant VMA return. It was spiteful of MTV to schedule her right after the “Lemonade” performance, but you really have to appreciate Spears’ effort to lip-sync her way through “Make Me”.
