One of the biggest nights for MTV is the Video Music Awards, the night to honor artists with the classic Moonman in different categories!
As always, the event kicked off with the pre-show. The star-studded red carpet featured appearances from top celebs like One Direction, 2 Chainz, and The Wanted and we even got a performance from new X-Factor judge Demi Lovato (I love her)!
Before the main event even started, three Moonmen were given out. Demi Lovato won the first official Moonman of the night for Best Video with A Message for her song “Skyscraper.” DJ Calvin Harris snagged one for Best Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Video for “Feel So Close,” and the ever so popular British-Irish boy band One Direction got a Moonman for Most Shareworthy Video for “What Makes You Beautiful.” Between these guys and Justin Bieber, girls FALL OUT!
On the red carpet, Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose officially announced that they are indeed expecting a baby. It’s something we already knew, but it’s nice to have some confirmation. Congratulations to them!
Now on to the main event!!!! Rihanna opened the show with “Cockiness” before rolling into the crowd to sing and party to “We Found Love.” She killed it! I wish that she had performed “Where Have You Been” instead of “Cockiness,” but since that’s her new single, she wanted to sing that, I guess.
MTV brought back Kevin Hart (take notes BET! Stick with what WORKS…just saying) to host the show. This crazy fool came out as the “president” of the show with little people as his security! Of course, he wouldn’t be himself if he didn’t crack some jokes. He proceeded to talk about the need for forgiveness on some mistakes on Drake and Chris Brown‘s beef (they were both present last night btw), Frank Ocean‘s coming out (funny but tasteful, at least to me), Snooki and Baby Lorenzo, and the HUGE elephant and the room, the Kristen Stewart and Robert Patterson cheating scandal (He had to be expecting that!). I was absolutely dying the whole night! I love Kevin as a host, and if the execs over at BET had any sense in their heads, they would bring him back next year for the BET Awards.
Katy Perry presented Best Pop Video to One Direction for “What Makes You Beautiful.” No surprise there. Pink then came out to perform her new song “Blow Me One Last Kiss.” I also found out earlier that she is the newest face to grace the CoverGirl brand, in addition to Ellen DeGeneres, Sofia Vergara, Janelle Monae, and more! I love it!
Rita Ora and Demi Lovato presented Best Male Video to Chris Brown for “Turn Up The Music.” Though I love Chris to death, it was kind of surprising because I always expect Justin Bieber to win just about any award he’s up for, but he didn’t. Congrats Chris! Zoe Saldaña presented what I thought was the best performance of the night (maybe I’m biased), Frank Ocean who sung “Thinkin Bout You.” Besides some grass and fire behind him, Frank had a microphone and an acoustic guitarist to back him up and he sung the HELL out of that song, hitting that falsetto amazingly! I really love him.
Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg presented the award for Best Rap Video to Drake and Lil Wayne for “HYFR.” Again, no surprise there. Figured it would be either him or Nicki. I did need Lil Wayne to quit acting like he didn’t want or need to be there with those headphones on all night though! After this award, One Direction hit the stage and performed “One Thing.”
The Wanted and Rebel Wilson (who is absolutely hilarious to me!) presented the Best Female Video to Nicki Minaj for “Starships.” Now I like Nicki and 75% of her music. However, I’m going to need her to stop being so over the top every time she accepts an award! Not taking away from her win at all, but all this “I didn’t–Oh my god–I can’t believe–“. Nicki, you know that you are the biggest female rapper out right now. Stop doing all of that, and just calmly go up to the stage to get your award! And I’m sorry, but why is it when one person in Young Money wins an award, EVERYBODY has to come on stage?! Goodness. Afterwards, 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne performed “Yuck” and “No Worries.” I’m just going to keep my mouth closed on that one. Green Day also hit the stage with “Oh Love,” and I was rocking out!
The night also featured a new look at Breaking Dawn Part 2 (the end of the Twilight saga which looks mad intense!). Several members of the cast were there (including my boo Taylor Lautner), excluding Kristen Stewart for uh…obvious reasons!
The award for Best New Artist went to…One Direction for “What Makes You Beautiful.” Shortly after, the Women’s Gymnastics Olympic team brought out Alicia Keys to perform “Girl on Fire,” with Nicki Minaj. Now I love Alicia, and I like the new song, but she was all the way OFF KEY last night! The best part of the entire performance was when Gabrielle Douglas came out to do flips across the stage with ease (the whole time I was thinking please don’t fall on that slippery stage!). She KILLED it for the short seconds she was there!
The most coveted award of the night, Video of the Year, went Rihanna for “We Found Love,” which was greatly deserved. It was a great visual with a deep story line. What we didn’t see was Rihanna greet Chris Brown with a kiss (on the cheek or on the lips…has yet to be determined!) Now there are rumors of Karreuche and Chris being done (again, not confirmed!). If that’s the case, I would honestly love to see them together. I know that people may not agree, but that love connection is definitely still there. Honestly, if that incident hadn’t happened, those two would probably still be together. Maybe they could give each other a second chance.
Taylor Swift ended the show with “We Are Never Getting Back Together.” I wouldn’t have placed her at the very end of the show, but she did a good job! Overall, it was a great night, and I had a lot of fun watching and tweeting as always! And a big shoutout to MTV for starting the show early so people could watch President Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention! Hopefully one day, I’ll be on that red carpet (interviewing of course!). A full list of the winners and their acceptance speeches can be seen here! Congrats to all!
Images via MTV/Reuters
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