DUSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Taylor Swift gained massive at Sunday’s MTV EMAs. Swift who led the nominations together with Harry Kinds with seven a chunk, walked away with 4 wins for ‘Greatest Artist,’ ‘Greatest Video,’ ‘Greatest Pop’ and ‘Greatest Longform Video.’
Presently topping the charts with ‘Anti-Hero’ from her document breaking new album ‘Midnights,’ Swift made a shock look on the awards in Dusseldorf to gather her haul, the newest in a protracted line of accolades for the singer-songwriter. Accepting her first award of the evening she mentioned “the followers are the one purpose any of this occurs for me.”
David Guetta and Bebe Rexha opened the present with their hit collaboration ‘I’m Good (Blue),’ a observe that just about didn’t get launched.
Rexha defined on the carpet “we had no concept that it was gonna blow up and be so viral on TikTok. And right here we’re performing it and nominated for ‘Greatest Collab.’”
Sizzling on their toes have been Muse who returned to the EMAs for a fiery efficiency of ‘Will of the Folks,’ later successful ‘Greatest Rock’ act. They devoted their award to the folks of Ukraine and the ladies of Iran.
This yr’s present was hosted by newlyweds Rita Ora and Taika Waititi. Ora didn’t disappoint with a number of outfit modifications and Waititi joked he was channeling his internal popstar.
An absent Nicki Minaj additionally got here out on high with a trio of prizes for ‘Greatest Music,’ ‘Tremendous Freaky Lady’ and ‘Greatest Hip Hop’. Kinds, who’s at the moment touring within the US, gained ‘Greatest Reside’.
Following their Eurovision win in Could, Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra gave some of the highly effective and transferring performances of the evening, turning the auditorium blue and yellow in assist of Ukraine. Speaking on the pink carpet frontman Oleg Psyuk defined that with their new discovered fame they might assist and unfold consciousness of the plight of the Ukrainian folks
“It’s vital for us to be a voice of Ukraine, to have alternative to be all around the world, to carry out and to say about Ukraine, to say about struggle, to say about our tradition, tradition that fights towards struggle.”
British rapper Stormzy carried out ballad ‘Fireplace Babe,’ launched this week from his extremely anticipated third album ‘That is What I Imply.’
OneRepublic carried out their ‘Prime Gun: Maverick’ tune ‘I Ain’t Apprehensive,’ with a particular video intro from the person himself, Tom Cruise, which they mentioned wasn’t straightforward to get.
Different performers on the evening included Ava Max who sparkled in a large diamond singing ‘Million Greenback Child’ and Tate McRae who carried out a medley of her hits, ‘she’s all i wanna be’ and ‘uh oh.’
Voted for by the followers 17 gender-neutral classes have been introduced throughout the night. The present, broadcast from the PSD Financial institution Dome will likely be proven in additional than 170 international locations.
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