2016 MTV’S VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS

The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards was held this past Sunday, August 28, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. This was the first time in 33 years, that the awards ceremony was held in Madison Square Garden, but this was the 16th time the awards ceremony aired in New York. MTV has been known to have one of the most outrageous, spontaneous and surprising award shows of all time, and without an official host this year, no one knew what to expect. The ceremony kicked off with a surprising opening performance from this year’s MTV Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award recipient Rihanna, an award that was given to artist in the previous year’s such as Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Brittney Spears, and Beyoncé.
Rihanna’s opening performance as well as the other 3 performances throughout the show
featured a melody of some of her hit songs from the past, and a few from the present. Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande preformed “Side to Side” a song on Grande’s recently released album “Dangerous Woman”. Taylor Swift was reported to not attend this year’s awards, no statements
were released as to the reason why but we were perceived to believe it is because of her recent situation with the Kardashian-West family. In Kanye’s song “Famous”, on his recent album “The Life of Pablo” there is a lyric that is crediting West for the amount of success Swift has. It states,
“For all my Southside niggas that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, Why? I made that b**** famous”
Swift publically announced that she didn’t know anything about the lyrics at all and that no one should take accountability for anyone’s success, but Kim Kardashian-West did not take to what Swift had to say well. She released footage of a phone conversation between Taylor and Kanye where it was clearly stated what the lyrics of the song would be. Despite those circumstances, Kanye didn’t have anything negative to say at all. When he took the stage at the ceremony to
release a new video for his song “Faded” which featured G.O.O.D Music Artist, Teyana Taylor
her Fiancé professional basketball player Iman Shumpert, and their son, Iman Shumpert Jr. If
none of that kept you interested one of the most talked about moments of this year’s VMA’s had to be the Beyoncé performance. “The Queen Bey’s” performance of her recent album “Lemonade” was mind-blowing as usual though she didn’t perform every song on the album as she did in the 2014 MTV VMA’s for the “BEYONCE” album, she did just enough to show us why we call her “The Queen”. Following Beyoncé, Brittney Spears preformed “Make Me” featuring rapper G-Eazy. Towards the ending of the show, Rihanna preformed “Stay” and “Love on the Brain” some of her more soulful songs, and Rapper Drake presented her with her Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Drake and Rihanna have been reported to be dating, but there were no officials. Prior to the awards Drake presented a billboard that said “Congratulations to Rihanna from Drake and everyone at OVO,” Which aided everyone’s suspicions, but he just
about cleared all the rumors during his speech. “She’s someone I’ve been in love with since I was 22 years old.” were some of his closing words to end the speech, followed by a kiss and a
hug. The list of award categories, nominees, and winners are all online at http://www.mtv.com/vma/winners, and if you want to watch it again the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards will air again, Tuesday 6:10 CST.