Top music stars flock to MTV’s Video Music Awards

Swift and Post Malone landed the best collaboration trophy for their pop song “Fortnight” to kick off MTV’s annual Video Music Awards.

Swift, wearing a tartan Dior gown from the label’s resort 2025 collection, went into the red-carpet ceremony with the biggest stack of nominations among all artists, with 12.

Winning the first award of the night, she praised Malone as “ridiculously talented” and “unfailingly polite.”

“It has taken me forever to get him to stop calling me ma’am,” she said next to Malone on stage at the UBS Arena outside New York City.

Malone returned the compliments, calling megastar Swift “absolutely one of the most kind and talented people I’ve ever had the honor of knowing.”

The black-and-white “Fortnight” video was released in April to accompany the first single from Swift’s album “The Tortured Poets Department.” The video shows Swift in a bleak hospital, a setting she said reflected what she was seeing in her head as she wrote the “Tortured Poets” songs.

Malone said he watched Swift direct the video while she was strapped to an operating room table on the set. “It was pretty bad ass,” he said.

“Fortnight” also took out the evening’s top honor – video of the year – against Billie Eilish’s “Lunch,” Eminem’s “Houdini,” SZA’s “Snooze” and others.

Chappell Roan, who has had a huge impact on the music scene this year, nabbed the honour for best new artist.

 

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Eminem opened the show with “Houdini” before country singer Jelly Roll joined him for their hit collaboration “Somebody Save Me.”

Katy Perry was honoured with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her lifetime work.

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