Pop star Taylor Swift won this Tuesday at the MTV Music Video Awards with the song “Anti-Hero”, in a gala dominated by women, hip-hop celebrations and last-minute confusion.
Taylor Swift, currently in the spotlight with her “The Eras” tour, took home the most coveted awards: artist of the year, video of the year, song of the year, best pop song and achievement.
Swift won nine of the seven awards she was nominated for: she also won album of the year, best summer show, cinematography and visual effects.
However, MTV sowed confusion when, after four hours, the gala at the Prudential Center, in New Jersey, United States, ended without announcing the winners in several categories, which they later updated on the social network X (formerly Twitter) and on the website itself, without answering questions from the media.
The gala was special for the women, who absolutely dominated all the nominations for artist of the year, and especially for the Latinas, who took over the stage and distinguished themselves throughout the night, such as Shakira, Karol G and the Brazilian Anita.
The Colombian Shakira won the Video Vanguardia Award, in honor of her career, which she dedicated to the “Latin American people”, and then collected another with her compatriot Karol G for the collaboration “TGQ”, in which they remembered Barranquilla and Medellín. their cities.
In addition to Shakira’s performance, Anitta’s was another highlight, followed by Cardi B and Karol G.
Fat Joe and Thalía presented the award in the Latin category, and Anitta repeated her victory for the second year with “Funk rave.”
Hip-hop was another star, commemorating the 50th anniversary, with a closing concert that featured pioneers such as Grandmaster Flash, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, who took the award for best music video of the genre for ” Super weird girl.”
Before, P. Diddy, who received the Global Icon award, recalled his most popular songs on stage, such as “I’ll be miss you” and “Anoche”, accompanied by Keyshia Cole; and there were other notable names, such as the young rapper Ice Spice, awarded the award for best new artist.
MTV gave several awards by musical genre and this year premiered the “Afrobeats” distinction, awarded to the Nigerian singer Rema for the song “Calm Down”, with the Mexican-American Selena Gómez.
The MTV Awards date back to 1984.
Source: TSF
