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Taylor Swift’s black-and-white video “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone won video of the year, the top honour at MTV’s annual Video Music Awards, on Wednesday.
The “Fortnight” video was released in April to accompany the first single from Swift’s album The Tortured Poets Department, and also landed the best collaboration trophy.
Swift took home seven trophies, tying her with Beyonce for the most lifetime honors in the 40-year history of the video accolades.
“This video seems very sad when you watch it, but it actually was the most fun video to make,” Swift said as she accepted the Moon Person statuette.
After each take, she would hear a cheer from a person across the studio. “That one person was my boyfriend Travis,” she said, referring to Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce.
“Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic,” she said. “I want to thank him for adding that to this shoot.”

Earlier, when “Fortnight” won best collaboration, Swift praised Malone as “ridiculously talented” and “unfailingly polite.”
Swift, on a break from her record-setting Eras Tour, went into the red-carpet ceremony with the biggest stack of nominations among all artists, with 12.
Winning the first award of the night, she praised Malone as “ridiculously talented” and “unfailingly polite”.
“It has taken me forever to get him to stop calling me ma’am,” she said next to Malone on stage at the UBS Arena outside New York.

Malone returned the compliments, calling megastar Swift “absolutely one of the most kind and talented people I’ve ever had the honour of knowing”.
The black-and-white “Fortnight” video shows Swift in a bleak hospital, a setting she said reflected what she was seeing in her head as she wrote the Tortured Poets songs.
Malone said he watched Swift direct the video while she was strapped to an operating room table on the set. “It was pretty bad a*s,” he said.

Swift’s other awards included artist of the year and song of the summer.
“Fortnight” was competing for the evening’s top honour – video of the year – against Billie Eilish’s “Lunch,” Eminem’s “Houdini,” SZA’s “Snooze” among others.
Eminem opened the show with “Houdini” before country singer Jelly Roll joined him for their hit collaboration “Somebody Save Me”. Women dominated the award show.
Chappell Roan won the MTV Video Music Award for best new artist.

“I dedicate this to all the drag artists who inspire me,” she said in her speech, while wearing chain mail, reading from a written speech in her diary. “And I dedicate this to queer and trans people who run pop. … Thank you for listening.”
Sabrina Carpenter won the trophy for song of the year for “Espresso”.
“This is really special,” she said in her speech, dedicated to her fans. “And thank you to that me-espresso.”

Earlier in the night, she brought her summery-pop to the award show, powering through her hit singles “Please Please Please,” “Taste” and “Espresso” while dancing with a moon man and an alien.
Tyla won the best Afrobeats award.
Katy Perry received the Video Vanguard Award, performing an eight-song medley spanning her career: “Roar”, “E.T.”, “California Gurls”, “Teenage Dream”, “I Kissed a Girl”, “Firework” and “Lifetimes”.
She also teased a new song, “I’m His, He’s Mine,” featuring Doechii, which samples the Crystal Waters classic, “Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da)”.

Previous recipients of the Video Vanguard Award include Shakira, Beyoncé, Minaj, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna and Missy Elliott.
Blackpink’s Lisa, the best K-pop award winner, made her way to the VMA stage for the first time as a soloist, powering through two of her brand-new singles, “New Woman” and “Rockstar”.
Shawn Mendes made along-awaited return, debuting a new John Mayer-esq. acoustic number, “Nobody Knows”.

Anitta performed “Paradise”, “Alegria”, and “Savage Funk,” joined by DJ Khaled, Fat Joe and Tiago PZK. Camilla Cabello performed in a panopticon. Benson Boone seemed as stoked as ever to perform his viral hit “Beautiful Things” on the VMAs stage. Lenny Kravitz proved rock isn’t dead with “Are You Gonna Go My Way”, “Human” and finally “Fly”, in which he was joined by Quavo.


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Taylor Swift and Post Malone love-in at MTV Video Music Awards as ‘Fortnight’ collab wins

Taylor Swift and Post Malone accept the award for Video of the Year for “Fortnight” during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York. Photo: Reuters

Taylor Swift with the award for Video of the Year for “Fortnight” on stage at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. Photo: Reuters

Host Megan Thee Stallion presents the Video of the Year award for “Fortnight” to Taylor Swift, Rodrigo Prieto, Post Malone, and Ethan Tobman during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena in New York. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

US rapper Eminem performs during the MTV Video Music Awards. Photo: AFP

US singer Tinashe (left) presents US singer Chappell Roan with the Best New Artist award during the MTV Video Music Awards. Photo: AFP

Sabrina Carpenter performs during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. She won song of the year for “Espresso”. Photo: Reuters

Katy Perry performs during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. Photo: Reuters

Blackpink’s Liaa poses with the award for best K-pop for “Rockstar” at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. Photo: Reuters

What is HKPAX, Hong Kong ‘mega’ cultural event for performing arts from around world?

Hong Kong artists Anna Lo and Rick Lau will perform at HKPAX. Photo: HKPAX

Denmark-based Uppercut Dance Theatre will feature at Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo this October, as well as comedy, dance and orchestral music acts from Europe, Asia and beyond. Photo: HKPAX

Hong Kong artists Anna Lo and Rick Lau’s LauZone, a cabaret show that honours Chinese dialects, will feature in the HKPAX performance programme, which runs from October 14-18. Photo: HKPAX

Performing at HKPAX will be Finnish-Mexican artist Gabriela Muñoz, who will adopt a clown character for her piece Perhaps, Perhaps … Quizas. Photo: HKPAX

A promotional poster for Time in a Bottle, a theatrical presentation integrating music, scent and perfume bottles as part of HKPAX. Photo: HKPAX

South Korean artist Seo Jungmin ‘s piece ONE, My Utopia! will be among the performances at HKPAX. Photo: HKPAX

Czech group Burkicom will perform The Island! at HKPAX. Photo: HKPAX

A promotional poster for 1014, a production fusing jazz with nanyin, a classical style of narrative Chinese singing. Photo: HKPAX

With Lisa at LV, BTS’ Jin at Gucci, Stray Kids at Met Gala, luxury fashion embraces K-pop

K-pop boy band Stray Kids pose at the Met Gala in New York. Fashion label Tommy Hilfiger’s collaboration with the group is an example of how luxury fashion houses are seeking to benefit from the star power of K-pop idols. Photo: Reuters

Felix of Stray Kids at the SS25 Tommy Hilfiger show in New York. Photo: Reuters

Blackpink’s Lisa attends the Louis Vuitton womenswear autumn/winter show as part of Paris Fashion Week. Photo: Getty Images for Louis Vuitton

BTS’ Jin is the new Gucci ambassador. Photo: Gucci

NMIXX are brand ambassadors for luxury fashion label Loewe. Photo: Twitter/@Loewe

Viral singer in hijab Ghaliaa Chaker paves the way for other girls to achieve music dreams

Syrian singer Ghaliaa Chaker performs during her concert in Beirut on August 25, 2024. She has 439,000 followers on Instagram, is part of all-girl biker group, sings mostly in Arabic – and wears a hijab. Photo: AFP

Ghaliaa Chaker plays a keyboard at a recording studio in Dubai. The 26-year-old Syrian has become a social media sensation. Photo: AFP

Chaker gets ready for a recent concert in Beirut. She says she often receives criticism online. Photo: AFP

Chaker performs during her concert in Beirut. She has 437,000 followers on Instagram and millions of views on her YouTube channel. Photo: AFP

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Swift, winner of 7 prizes, hails Post Malone, co-winner of video of the year trophy, as ‘ridiculously talented’, he returns the compliment


Swift, winner of 7 prizes, hails Post Malone, co-winner of video of the year trophy, as ‘ridiculously talented’, he returns the compliment.


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