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Taylor Swift. Ice Spice and crowdsurfing Shakira. The 2023 Video Music The 2023 Video Music Awards (VMAs) were held at the Prudential Center in Network. New Jersey, on Tuesday night, and while they were absent any major scandal or breaking news, there were still plenty of unmissable moments. Find the most notable performances, wins and speeches from this year’s VMAs (because, come on, who can watch every single award show?
It was Taylor Swift night in America (again)
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Swift was nominated for a huge 11 VMAs this year, and she took home a cool nine of them, breaking her record for most wins at this particular award show.
Ice Spice correctly won Best New Artist
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I’m a devoted Renee Rapp stan who was genuinely rooting for her to win best new artist, but nobody’s music has had the impact of Ice Spice’s, and I was thrilled to see her take home the coveted award. (Perhaps even more thrilling was hearing Rapp tell Ice Spice, “Anything you say, I’ll do,” and thus continue her streak of being the most relatable queer woman alive.)
Olivia Rodrigo nailed her performance of “Vampire”
Some weird stuff going on with the set dressing during her performance, Rodrigo (unsurprisingly) knocked the hit song from her sophomore album out of the park. The bright red outfit was perfect, too, in a very Britney-circa–” Baby One More Time” way that feels appropriate and nostalgic.
Shakira crowd-surfed her way into everyone’s hearts
Nobody performs a 10-minute song-and-dance medley quite like Shakira, especially when it’s capped off by a truly epic crowd surf. (I would be afraid of being dropped, but that’s why Shakira is Shakira and I’m me.)
Diddy’s performance was an adorable family affair
You either die young or live long enough to see yourself become a dad with accordingly dad-like (ie. slightly goofy) dance moves and that’s exactly what seems to have happened to Diddy, who had his kids on stage with him as he was accepting the Global Icon Award.
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