Taylor Swift has dominated this 12 months’s MTV Europe Music Awards, taking dwelling 4 of the six gongs she was up for – greatest artist, greatest video, greatest pop and greatest longform video.
There had been excessive hopes for among the British stars up for awards – together with Adele, Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles, who had led the nominations, nonetheless – Swift proved herself to be queen of the MTV EMAs.
The 32-year-old megastar – who not too long ago re-recorded a few of her earliest hits with the intention to regain management of her work – praised her legion of followers (referred to as Swifties) as she accepted every award, thanking them for his or her unwavering help.
When introduced with one of the best artist gong by Baywatch star David Hasselhoff, Swift advised the auditorium of screaming followers: “You have no idea how much this even means to me to do this as a career…
“There’s not a single second I take that with no consideration. I like you a lot, I am unable to imagine I get to do that as a job, and it is all due to you. Thank you so, a lot.”
The annual worldwide music awards, which befell in Dusseldorf, Germany, and was hosted by superstar power-couple Rita Ora and Taika Waititi, additionally noticed stars together with Nicki Minaj, Muse and Gorillaz take dwelling gongs from 20 gender-neutral classes.
Read extra: See the total checklist of MTV EMA winners right here
Performances on the night time included Stormzy – who away from his regular model carried out his ballad Fire Babe on TV for the primary time – plus stay music from Lewis Capaldi, Bebe Rexha, and Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra.
British TikTok star and Eurovision runner-up Sam Ryder additionally purchased a little bit of Eurovision glam to the night time, presenting the award for greatest collaboration to French DJ David Guetta and US star Bebe Rexha. Guetta additionally took greatest digital act.
There was even a shock recorded message from Hollywood A-lister Tom Cruise, introducing OneRepublic’s Top Gun: Maverick hit tune I Ain’t Worried.
As her night time of wins continued, Swift accepted one of the best longform video award – which was one in every of two new classes this 12 months – from singer/songwriter Julian Lennon, the son of the late John Lennon.
As she took to the stage, Swift once more praised her followers for his or her continued help, telling them: “You’re the reason that anything has ever happened to me.”
She defined: “I have been writing and directing my music videos for a long time but this was the first short film I have made and I felt like I learned so much about myself of how making film can be a natural extension of my storytelling just like song writing.”
Stranger Things star Sadie Sink and Teen Wolf actor Dylan O’Brien starred within the music video which went viral earlier this 12 months after followers speculated the tune was based mostly on Swift’s break-up with actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
As nicely because the long-form prize, it additionally took greatest video, with Swift telling followers: “This almost never happened,” happening to clarify that when she first launched the tune 10 years in the past it wasn’t a single, and did not have a video.
She went on: “I can only explain this by saying that the fans willed this to happen. I will never stop thanking you for this.”
The video additionally picked up the celebrated video of the 12 months gong on the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this 12 months.
When handed one of the best pop prize, Swift joked: “You gotta wear a lot of sequins and learn choreography and that is very hard.”
She has been dominating the charts the world over in latest weeks following the launch of her new album Midnights – the 12 months’s quickest promoting album.
Nicki Minaj took the award for greatest tune with Super Freaky Girl, together with greatest hip hop act.
Despite having probably the most nominations (seven), ex-One Direction star Harry Styles solely took dwelling one award on the night time – greatest stay efficiency. He wasn’t there in individual to select up his prize.
Best rock act went to Muse, who opened the ceremony with their new observe Will Of The People.
Refusing to shrink back from onerous political truths amid the glamour of the showbiz night time, lead singer Matt Bellamy advised the MTV viewers: “We’d love to dedicate this whole album to the people of Ukraine and the women in Iran who are fighting for their freedom as we celebrate tonight.”
Gorillaz – fronted by Blur star Damon Albarn – took greatest various band, whereas Sam Smith took video for good.
It was additionally a superb night time for Ok-pop, with South Korean boyband Seventeen taking greatest new act and greatest push, Blackpink taking greatest metaverse efficiency (the second new class of the night time), and one of many band’s members, Lisa, taking greatest Ok-pop act, and BTS taking greatest followers.
Best Latin performer went to Anitta and greatest R&B to US star Chloe.
The MTV EMAs 2022 was broadcast stay on MTV on Sunday 13 November. You can watch the total 2022 MTV EMA present from 14 November on Paramount+ UK
Source: information.sky.com”