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Give Give. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. Spotify to Acquire Audiobook Platform Findaway. By Joe Lynch. Copied to clipboard. Click to copy. Lorde Lorde has always marched to the beat of her own drum, and her VMAs performance may be the strangest, most fearless thing she's done yet.

Julia Michaels Michaels' red, poofy dress was stunning, and her voice sounded gorgeous on her irresistible hit "Issues. Alessia Cara Alessia Cara's sweetly soulful voice is one of the best things to enter the mainstream consciousness in the last few years.

Miley Cyrus Baby bikers, senior citizens dressed up as pink ladies and greasers, a dance line— yes, it was another idiosyncratic Miley Cyrus VMAs performance on Sunday Aug. Logic, Alessia Cara and Khalid Logic, Alessia Cara, Khalid and a troupe of people wearing the phone number for the suicide prevention hotline — , also the name of their collaboration — brought strong visuals and a powerful message to the VMAs.

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Music Aug 28, Read Full Article. What to Read Next. A drink and a punch were thrown. Most of the ceremony committed the ultimate awards show sin: It was boring. Swift did none of those things. For someone who constantly talks about how much she hates playing the publicity game, she sure is good at it. Every cut to Perry was progressively more cringeworthy. But all she did was prove how out of step she truly is. As the credits rolled, Perry stood atop a basketball hoop and seemingly tried to pass the time by limply attempting to dab — a sad but completely fitting end.

But the real reason they won is that when they kicked off their performance by sending a shadowy fifth woman careening backward into space — a clear reference to ex-Fifth Harmony member Camila Cabello ditching the group — they won my heart. If you're gonna shade somebody, at least do it right. Fifth Harmony, ladies and gentlemen VMAs pic. Somewhere, Swift is kicking back in her sweatpants, unfurling a wicked smirk at just how handily she won the night without even showing up.

And I do mean that literally : As the wall behind him lit up, a stunt performer engulfed in flames careened in front of him.