MTV VMA Awards 2022: Taylor Swift won the biggest award of the night in New Jersey

Taylor Swift won this Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards. The American singer won the highest accolade of the evening, Music Video of the Year, for “All Too Well ”in its 10-minute version.

As icing on the cake, Swift, who starred in an elegant silver rhinestone chain minidress from designer Oscar de la Renta, as well as receiving awards for best long-running video and best director, announced that on 21 October will release a new album.

The album will be called “Midnights”, will tell thirteen stories of sleepless nights over the course of his life and will be his tenth studio production, after “Folklore” and “Evermore”, which debuted two years ago.

During her speech at the packed Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Swift praised other women in the Video of the Year category that included Doja Cat and Olivia Rodrigo, and thanked her die-hard fans in her speech. “We wouldn’t have been able to make this short if it wasn’t for you, the fans,” she said.

“I couldn’t have re-recorded my albums if it wasn’t for you, you gave me the courage to do it” He added. Taking the award for best long-running video, meanwhile, he thanked many of his collaborators, including actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, who starred in it. “We put our whole heart into it,” she said.

Award for Bad Bunny and Anitta

From the beginning of the evening the expected musical number had been announced bad bunny it would be presented remotely, live from Yankee Stadium in New York.

The Puerto Rican star started singing “Titi Asked Me” right after it was announced as winner of the artist of the year award and he was very surprised when they finally gave him his statuette.

“I have no words to describe what I feelthe pride I feel in being here tonight at Yankee Stadium to receive this award, “he said, getting a standing ovation from the audience who had just sung his song with him.

The Central American artist added: “I said it and I always believed from the beginning that I could grow up, that I could become one of the biggest stars in the world, without having to change my culture, my language, my language. ., my jargon.I am Benito Antonio Martínez from Puerto Rico for the whole world, thank you! ”.

For its part, the category of the best Latin music videos was very close, but Anitta was the winner for her hit “Envolver”. The urban artist performed his song live on the MTV stage, where he gave a funk-infused twerking class towards the end of his performance.

Like Bad Bunny, Anitta did not expect to win the award which was announced shortly after. Having known her distinction of hers, she was proud to be the one first Brazilian artist to win a “Moon Man”, as the award statuettes are known.

“Today we make history, it is the first time that Brazil is here”, he said. “Today I interpreted here a rhythm that for many years in my country was considered a crime. I was born and raised in a ghetto and for anyone born there, we never thought it was possible, so thank you very much, ‘”she added.

This year’s awards were widely distributed with three joint statuettes for Lil Nas X Y Jack Harlow for his version of the song “Industry Baby”, and three more for Harry Styleswho did not attend the event, but took the astronaut to the best album of the year for “Harry’s House”, while his song “As It Was” was chosen as the best pop music video and best photography.

In addition to Styles, Billie Elish, who garnered 6 nominations and her work “Happier than Ever” won the best song of the year award, also did not attend the event.

For her part, Harlow also won a solo statuette for “First Class”, chosen as the best song of the summer.

Nicki Minaj, another great protagonist of the evening

the rapper Nicki Minaj17-time VMA nominee and 5-time winner of hits like “Anaconda”, “Chun-Li” and “Hot Girl Summer”, she became the star of the night where received the honorary Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Awardin addition to the statuette for the best hiphop video for his song “Do We Have a Problem?”.

Other Michael Jackson Award winners have included Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Kanye West, Rihanna, P! Nk, and Jennifer Lopez.

But, beyond the prizes, Minaj’s personality prevailed at the ceremonyin which she not only starred in a performance that raised the spirits of the audience, but she also acted as a presenter alongside rappers LL COOL J and Jack Harlow.

Latin and K-Pop beats blared at the Prudential Center and nearby Yankee Stadium. The popular South Korean musical genre won three astronauts, 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, won by BTS.

Likewise, the work “Saoko” by the Spanish artist Rosalía was awarded the prize for the best edition.

With information from AP and EFE.

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