The MTV VMAs are recognized for creating popular culture moments yearly, as celebrities present up, present out and provides us recollections that final perpetually. With out fail, this 12 months’s MTV VMAs have been no exception and due to A-list names like Nicki Minaj, Lil Nas X and Lizzo, there have been sufficient show-stopping moments to go round.
Earlier than the present even began, Lil Nas X did what he does greatest—which is completely shutting down the pink carpet with a jaw-dropping look. This time, he managed to up the ante as soon as once more, as he confirmed up carrying a two-piece black ensemble manufactured from hair, full with a full skirt an identical headpiece. Beneath, he saved issues barely extra easy with fitted black leather-based pants and boots. Nonetheless, that was solely the beginning as a result of through the present he made a fast outfit change right into a flooring size gown with giant cutouts.
Co-host Jack Harlow opened the present performing his summer time hit ‘First Class,’ nonetheless it was his shock visitor that immediately went viral. As his tune samples the 2006 Fergie hit ‘Glamorous,’ audiences have been loving that Jack really introduced Fergie out to carry out it with him.
When it was introduced that she could be pulling double-duty this 12 months as each a co-host and the recipient of the Video Vanguard Award on the 2022 MTV VMAs, followers knew that Nicki Minaj would by some means discover a strategy to create a viral second.
Throughout her 15-minute efficiency spanning her profession, Nicki had the Barbz in a frenzy and the celebrities in attendance on their toes. As soon as she was accomplished hitting the stage, she gave a heartfelt speech thanking her followers and musical inspirations, together with Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.
Then it was Lizzo time! After accepting her MTV VMA award for Greatest Video For Good, Lizzo took the latter a part of her speech to not directly deal with the pointless and unprovoked feedback from 90s comic Aries Spears. Following Aries being fully dragged on-line all through the previous few days, Lizzo made it clear that she doesn’t have to clapback as a result of, “B**ch, I’m profitable!”
General, the night time was stuffed with a profitable mixture of music, type and statements on one of many trade’s greatest nights.
