the V girl Ty SW the 2024 MTV VMAs was a huge night in music with so many standout performances and big wins the biggest winner of the night was Taylor Swift who took home video of the year for fortnite during her acceptance speech she shouted out boyfriend Travis Kelce who brought his electric energy to the set of her music video I would always just hear like someone like like cheering and like woo like like from across from across the studio um where we were shooting it and that that one person was my boyfriend travus everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and Magic so I want to thank him for for adding that to our shoot she also thanked the fans who voted for her video of the Year win and encouraged everyone to vote on Election Day too please register to vote for something else it's very important com the24 president election in addition to video of the Year Taylor won artist of the year and best pop and fortnite won song of summer and best collaboration when she and post Malone accepted the best collab award the artists raved over each other on stage and had a funny exchange where Taylor highlighted the gentlemanly way he addresses her you're the most down toe person honestly so unfailingly polite it has taken me forever to get him to stop calling me ma'am um so do you want to say something Austin Yes Man absolutely Katy Perry also had a huge night taking home the annual video Vanguard award her fiance Orlando Bloom presented the award and sang her Praises with a loving introduction you fell in love with her as Katie Perry I fell in love with her as Katherine Hudson she loves with her whole heart and it's kind of irresistible congratulations on this owner baby I'm so proud of you 143 Katie then went on to perform a medle of her hips saring above the stage during Dark Horse and rocking giant Chrome butterfly wings during firework as Taylor Swift danced and cheered along when she finished her Performance Orlando gave her the award and a romantic kiss in Her speech she thanked her longtime supporters and loved ones mentioning both Orlando and their daughter thank you to Orlando for keeping me grounded celebrated and doing the dishes and lastly for my Daisy the only flowers I'll ever need another big winner of the night was Chapel ran who scored the best new artist award Chapel emotionally read a speech she had written in her diary thaning the drag artist that Inspire her and sending a message to her young queer fans for all the queer kids in the midwest watching right now I see you I understand you because I'm one of you and don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't be exactly who you want to be I needed took home best Latin for me bues well Sabrina Carpenter won song of the year for espresso best afro beats went to Tyla for water and Lisa won best K-pop for rockar star blinks and lies all around the world thank you so much for this award um K between all of the big speeches there were tons of amazing performances from artists of all different genres including Eminem Carol G glorilla Lenny Kravitz and LL Cool J Chapel rone brought the house down with her performance of her hit song good luck babe dressed in a stunning suit of armor with a castle set of Blaze and nights dancing behind her Camila Cabo's performance was visually in she paused a video of her singing June Gloom before launching into godspeed and later smashed the laptop on the ground Megan the stallion slayed her signature dance moves as she wrapped a medley of her hits including boa and his Benson Boon was in total Rockstar mode belting out beautiful things even doing a backflip off the piano Hy also rocked out to their new song ego and Shan mes got behind his guitar for a performance of nobody knows Nita got everybody dancing with a medley of paradise Allegria and Savage Funk Sabrina Carpenter descended in on a glittering swing while singing please please please then performed taste with an astronaut an alien and closed the song with a memorable kiss [Music] [Applause] another memorable moment in the night came from flavor flave who presented an Award with Jordan CH he took the opportunity on stage to give the Olympian a touching gift to make up for her being stripped of her bronze medal I got you something that they can't take away from me wow what I don't even know what to say here thank you so much [Music]