Taylor Swift took dwelling essentially the most coveted award of the night time on the MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday, breaking a number of data with the win. The celebrity gained video of the 12 months for her tune “Fortnight,” that includes Submit Malone.
Swift gained seven VMAs this 12 months, bringing her all-time whole to 30, tying her with Beyoncé for many VMA wins of all time.
After being offered the trophy by VMAs host Megan Thee Stallion, Swift took to the stage to share her appreciation for her followers and everybody who helped deliver the music video to life, together with Submit Malone, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles (who made cameos within the video), cinematographer/DP Rodrigo Prieto and manufacturing designer Ethan Tobman.
“Directing this video and placing it collectively and writing it was essentially the most fantastic expertise. And that’s due to all of the folks that I acquired to make it with,” she stated in her acceptance speech. “The factor is that this video appears very unhappy if you watch it, nevertheless it really was like essentially the most enjoyable video to make.”
Swift additionally praised a particular individual in her life who was all the time on set whereas filming the music video, cheering her on between takes.
“One thing that I’ll all the time keep in mind is that after I would end a take and I’d say, ‘minimize,’ and we’d be accomplished with that take, I might all the time simply hear somebody cheering from throughout the studio the place we had been taking pictures it. And that one individual was my boyfriend Travis [Kelce],” the singer added, resulting in screams from the viewers. “Every part this man touches turns to happiness and enjoyable and magic, so I wish to thank him for including that to our shoot.”
Swift concluded, “To the followers, I’m all the time attempting to determine a method to say thanks to you for making my life what it’s, for making the Eras Tour what it has change into, for making The Tortured Poets Division what it has change into. That’s all you guys for doing that and for voting for this award. … I respect it a lot.”
Swift broke a number of data together with her video of the 12 months win, together with extending her document for the most-awarded artist within the class, as she beforehand gained for “Unhealthy Blood,” “You Have to Calm Down,” “All Too Nicely: The Quick Movie” and “Anti-hero.”
She additionally grew to become the primary artist to win the VMA for video of the 12 months three years in a row. She took him the award final 12 months for “Anti-hero” and in 2022 for “All Too Nicely: The Quick Movie.”
The “Merciless Summer season” artist can also be identified for steering a number of of her music movies through the years. Because of this, her video of the 12 months win for “Fortnight” additionally prolonged her document because the artist with essentially the most wins within the class for movies that she directed or co-directed. Her previous movies for “You Have to Calm Down,” “All Too Nicely: The Quick Movie” and “Anti-hero” had been all directed/co-directed by Swift.
Swift beat out Ariana Grande with “we will’t be associates (wait on your love),” Billie Eilish with “LUNCH,” Doja Cat with “Paint The City Pink,” Eminem with “Houdini” and SZA with “Snooze.”
Earlier within the night time, whereas accepting her finest collaboration award with “Fortnight” collaborator Submit Malone, the singer additionally took a second to recollect the tragedy of the 9/11 terrorist assaults on the twenty third anniversary: “Every part that occurs tonight falls behind that.”
It’s been a triumphant 12 months general for Swift, who not solely gained the Grammy for album of the 12 months for Midnights earlier this 12 months, however she additionally launched her eleventh studio album The Tortured Poets Division, which sat on the prime of the Billboard 200 chart for 15 straight weeks. She’s additionally been busy performing for followers across the globe on her Eras tour, which wraps up in North America later this 12 months.
The 2024 VMAs, hosted by Megan Thee Stallion, had been held at Lengthy Island’s UBS Area Wednesday night time. Discover the full checklist of winners right here and all of the purple carpet seems right here.