Taylor Swift calls out Trump, John Travolta has awkward mix-up and more moments you missed
Taylor Swift came back to the 2019 Video Music Awards Monday – almost 10 years to the day since Kanye West’s disputable stage-slamming in front of an audience minute – with a presentation that commended her new collection, ““Lover,” ” by giving its title track a dramatic introduction.
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Under a colossal rainbow, sponsored by a differing cast of artists, Swift began at the center of her second single “You Need to Calm Down,” getting to her “conceal never made anyone less gay” line immediately, before wearing a jacket and guitar and strolling down the catwalk to play out her “Darling” title track.
The presentation was a fitting embodiment of Taylor Swift “Darling” promotion cycle, enormous and showy with her initial two singles (“ME!” and “You Need to Calm Down”) and the more repressed, musician situated feel of “The Archer” and “Sweetheart,” which were all discharged before her new collection at long last dropped on Aug. 23.
USA TODAY commended Taylor Swift‘s new collection and “how transparently Taylor Swift delights in her childhood” on the 18-track gathering off to a great extent blissful tunes.
Quick ventured out on the VMAs celebrity lane in head-to-toe Versace, displaying a brilliant jacket dress over a pink sequined leotard, matched with thigh-high dark boots.
Here are the five things you have to know from the current year’s VMAs, held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Taylor Swift Makes us Misty-Eyed, Dings Trump’s White House
On the impact points of discharging her widely praised seventh collection “Sweetheart” last Friday, Swift opened the VMAs with a heart-pulling version of the sentimental title track, which she performed on guitar all-important focal point in a sparkly purple coat and gold leotard.
In spite of being the greatest name at Monday’s show, the vocalist astutely moved to one side to give her kindred craftsmen a chance to sparkle, supporting exhibitions from Lil Nas X and Missy Elliott with her mark unbalanced move moves, and giving the mic to YouTube star Todrick Hall to acknowledge the Video for Good grant for “You Need to Calm Down.”
At the point when Swift took the mic in the wake of winning Video of the Year, she kept her discourse brief yet forcefully political, recognizing the Equality Act request included toward the part of the arrangement studded video.
You Need to Calm Down’ Wins Big
Later in the show, Swift brought home the Video for Good grant for “You Need to Calm Down,” making that big appearance with a team of beautifully clad partners as her video co-star Todrick Hall gave the discourse.
“I experienced childhood in the community of Plainview, Texas, and my whole life, all I needed to be was Ariel from The Little Mermaid,” Todrick said with Taylor Swift next to him, as indicated by MTV. “I put a red towel on my head and integrated my legs and bounced in a pool, nearly suffocated — and from that point forward, individuals began to disclose to me the things I couldn’t do and couldn’t achieve on the planet.”
So you decide in favor of this video implies that you need a reality where we’re altogether treated similarly under the law, paying little respect to who we cherish, paying little respect to how we distinguish,” she said.
Quick additionally yelled out her appeal for the Equality Act toward the part of the arrangement, “which currently has a large portion of a million marks, which is multiple times the sum it would need to warrant a reaction from the White House.”
“My cast experienced their lives so truly, thank you for being the model you are, I adore you to such an extent. Much obliged to you to MTV for lifting up this point in this video,” she wrapped up.
