The 2015 “MTV Video Music Awards” took place at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles with several of the performances emanating from the VMAs Downtown Los Angeles stage outside the iconic Orpheum Theatre. Host, Miley Cyrus, delivered a raunchy rainbow spectacle dripping in glitter, wild outfit changes and hilarious skits featuring the likes of Andy Samberg and Snoop Dogg.
Kanye West received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at recent “MTV Video Music Awards” in a 13-minute speech in which he reflected on his life and work, artistry and consumer culture – not to mention his, at times, tenuous relationship with award shows. Upon receiving the award from Taylor Swift, West expressed regret at crashing the stage during the 2009 “MTV Video Music Awards” but remained defiant in his defence of artistes. He has declared his intention to run for the presidency in 2020.
Taylor Swift won four Moonmen, including “Video of the Year” for her sci-feminist epic “Bad Blood” at the 2015 “MTV Video Music Awards”, emerging as the evening’s big winner. Swift also won “Best Female Video” for “Blank Space” and Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars took home “Best Male Video” for their infectious hit “Uptown Funk”.
Nicki Minaj opened the show perched atop a throne sculpted of backup dancers to tear through banger “Trini Dem Girls.” Minaj then segued into her soaring single “The Night Is Still Young” and, though indeed it still was, the surprises started early. Taylor Swift unexpectedly emerged from below the stage to join Minaj for the performance in an epic, chill-inducing squashing of beef.
They performed a muscular, funky version of hit “Can’t Feel My Face” while bathed in red light. The Canadian artiste shuffled around the stage before settling into a ring of fire that blazed up from the floor below and rotated around him.
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