Newark (USA) (AFP)

American pop superstar Taylor Swift launched the MTV Video Music Awards on Monday, presenting excerpts from his new album, the long-awaited "Lover", already the best-selling album of the year in the US after only two days.

The 29-year-old singer, wearing a golden bustier and a purple jacket, conquered the audience at the Prudential Center near New York, New Jersey, playing two hands-on, pink guitar tunes. album: "You Need to Calm Down" and the eponymous track, "Lover".

With ten nominations, Taylor Swift will be one of the great personalities of this annual gala of American music and music videos, broadcast on the MTV channel.

Ten years ago, when she was a promising young artist, rapper Kanye West, who was already a big provocateur of American rap, interrupted her speech of thanks saying she did not deserve the prize. had just been handed over.

The scene has become one of the most famous of recent American pop culture. President Barack Obama himself reacted by calling the rapper a "jerk".

"I learned that we never know what can happen in this show," she smiled Monday on the red carpet, since since this unfortunate incident, five albums have made her success one of the biggest stars on the planet.

Level rewards, it is the rapper Cardi B which was the first distinguished, for the best hip-hop clip.

Rapper Lil Nas X, whose hit "Old Town Road" has been dancing the United States and the whole world all summer, will be one of the other main attractions of the evening.

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