Taylor Swift is taking a moment to reflect while accepting the award alongside post Malone for best collaboration for their song fortnite at the MTV Video Music Awards Taylor paused to remember the September 11th terrorist attacks guys I wanted to say you know waking up this morning in New York on September 11th I've just been thinking about what happened 23 years ago everyone who lost a loved one and everyone that we lost the music icon said that remembering the tragic attack is quote the most important thing today and went on to thank the people that worked on their video everything that happens tonight falls behind that um but it is so amazing to have the opportunity to thank and honor the people who worked so hard with me on this video the lover sress continued her acceptance speech by giving a sweet shout out to post Malone there is a very clear reason why post Malone is everyone in music's favorite person to collaborate with and it is because you are so ridiculously talented you are so versatile and you're the most downto Earth person honestly so unfailingly polite it has taken me forever to get him to stop calling me ma'am and the Entertainer was understandably speechless when it was was his time to gush about Taylor um Taylor is uh a lot absolute loss for words um absolutely one of the most um kind and talented people I've ever had the honor of knowing [Music]