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The American singer
Taylor Swift
won this Sunday at the
Video Music Awards (VMA
), the oldest music awards on the
MTV
network , in which her song "
All Too Well
" received the coveted award for
best video clip of the year
as well as the distinctions for best long-form video and best direction.
The prizes of this year's contest, delivered in a packed
Prudential Center
, in the town of Newark (New Jersey), have been widely distributed with three joint statuettes for
Lil Nas X
and
Jack Harlow
for their version of the song
"Industry Baby
" , and another three for
Harry Styles
.
Styles, who has not attended the appointment, took the astronaut to the
best album of the year
for "Harry's House", while his song "
As It Was"
was chosen as the best pop video clip and best cinematography.
Harlow
also took home a solo statuette for "
First Class
", chosen as the best song of the summer.
TAYLOR SWIFT ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM
Swift
, who has come with an elegant minidress with silver rhinestone chains by the designer
Oscar de la Renta
, announced during the award ceremony that she will release a
new album
on
October 21
entitled "
Midnights
", in which she will have 13 stories of sleepless nights throughout his life.
The American, in her speech, praised the work of women behind the cameras and highlighted that this year, for the first time, four female directors of video clips had been nominated.
NICKI MINAJ, THE GREAT PROTAGONIST OF THE NIGHT
The rapper
Minaj
, 17 times nominated for the VMAs and 5 times winner for hits like "Anaconda", "Chun-Li" and "Hot Girl Summer", has become the great protagonist of the evening in which she received the
award honorary Michael Jackson Video Vanguard
, in addition to the statuette for the best hiphop video for his song "Do We Have a Problem?".
Other Michael Jackson award winners have included
Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Kanye West, Rihanna, P!nk and Jennifer Lopez.
But, beyond the awards, Minaj's personality has prevailed in the ceremony, in which she has not only starred in a performance in which she has raised the spirits of the public, but has also acted as master of ceremonies together with rappers
LL COOL J and Jack Harlow.
LATIN AND KOREAN FLAVOR
In addition to the well-known awards for
best Latin music video
, which went to the song "
Envolver
", by the Brazilian
Anitta
, and
Korean
, which
Lisa
won for "
Lalisa
", Latin rhythms and K-Pop sounded strong in the Prudential Center and at nearby Yankee Stadium, which also joined the party.
Anitta, who has highlighted the distinction for the first time of a Brazilian artist at the VMAs, has sung before the energetic audience, where the Colombians
J Balvin and Ryan Castro
and the Puerto Rican
Bad Bunny
have also performed .
Bad Bunny has won, for his part, the award for
best artist of the year
and in a brief speech he has made a plea for Puerto Rico, its culture and its language.
"I always believed, from the beginning, that I could become great, that I could become one of the best singers in the world without having to change my culture, my language, my language, my jargon; I am Benito Antonio Martínez de Puerto Rico for the whole world", said the Puerto Rican artist.
Likewise, the work "
Saoko
" by the Spanish artist
Rosalía
was distinguished with the award for
best edition.
K -
Pop
has taken three astronauts, beyond the one reserved for this category: the one from "Push Performance", which fell on SEVENTEEN;
best metaverse video, which went to Blackpink and best group of the year, which BTS won.
ABSENCES AND EXTRAVANGANCE ON THE RED CARPET
The red carpet of these awards born in
1984
and in which this year the astronaut has been personified by actor
Johnny Depp
, has been marked by the absences and outfits of
Lizzo and Lil Nas
X.
The artist, who has won the award in the "Video for Good" category for her song "About Damn Time" and who has made her personal process of acceptance and self-confidence part of her career, has been one of the first to make her red carpet appearance in a striking, voluminous teal-black gown by Jean Paul Gaultier.
Lil Nas X, for his part, has walked the carpet with a striking crown of black feathers matching a carnival-inspired skirt designed by Harris Reed.
But the absences of some of the nominees were also striking.
In addition to Styles, Billi Elish
, who had 6 nominations and her work "Happier than Ever" has won the award for best song of the year
, has also not attended the event.
The evening also missed the presence of
Olivia Rodrigo
, who had four nominations and last year won the new artist award, which in this edition went to
Dove Cameron
.
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