Singer Taylor Swift won the MTV Video Music Awards, with “All Too Well” winning best music video of the year, as well as best long-form video and best direction.
This year’s awards, at a ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, were split evenly, with three statuettes going to Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow for their cover of the song “Industry Baby,” and three to Harry Styles.
Styles, who was not in attendance, took home album of the year (“Harry’s House”), while his song “As It Was” won best pop music video and best photography.
Harlow also won, individually, with “Fist Class,” named the best song of the summer.
Swift took advantage of the ceremony to announce that she will release a new album on October 21, titled “Midnights”, in which she will tell 13 stories of sleepless nights throughout her life.
The American, in her speech, praised the work of women behind the cameras and highlighted that this year, for the first time, four music video directors have been nominated.
Rapper Minaj, a 17-time award nominee and five-time winner with hits like “Anaconda,” “Chun-Li” and “Hot Girl Summer,” was the star of the night, receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, as as well as the statuette for the best hip hop video for the song “Do we have a problem?”.
Other Michael Jackson Award winners included Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Kanye West, Rihanna, P!nk and Jennifer Lopez.
The Brazilian Anitta won the award for Best Latin Music Video and the Puerto Rican Bad Bunny in the category of artist of the year, while the Spanish artist Rosalía, with “Saoko”, was distinguished with the award for best edition.
K-Pop won three statuettes, in addition to the one reserved for this category: “Push Performance”, which went to SEVENTEEN; best metaverse video, which went to Blackpink; and best group of the year, which went to BTS.
Source: TSF
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