Sunday 7 September 2014

Written by Khandhan Nadarajan, Junior 1 Higgs, Class of 2015

Recently, the MTV Video Music Awards were held to honour the best of the best artists for their music videos presented by MTV. This year’s Video Music Awards was very different but still featured elements and essences of last year’s Video Music Awards. The 31st annual award show was held at The Forum in Inglewood, California. 
The number of nominations were led by Beyonće, with 8 nominations including Video of the Year, Best Female, Best Collaboration, Best cinematography and more. Following Queen Bey were newcomer Iggy Azalea and VMA veteran Eminem with 7 nominations each. Eminem’s nominations included Best Hip-Hop Video, Best Male, Best Collaboration, Best Editing and more. Iggy Azalea made her VMA debut thanks to her #1 hit “Fancy” which will allow her to battle for Video of the Year, Best Female, Best Pop, Best Collaboration and more. Other nominations included Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Lorde, Ariana Grande, Sam Smith, Pharrel Williams and many more. They entire list was made available through Snapchat on July 17

Video of the Year Nominees
From Left to Right: Iggy Azalea, Miley Cyrus, Pharrel Williams, Beyonce and Sia
Best Female
From Top to Bottom: Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Iggy Azalea, Beyonce and Lorde.
Best Male
From Top to Bottom: Pharrel Williams, Ed Sheeran featuring Pharrel Williams, Eminem, Sam Smith and John Legend.

Now for the most significant awards of the entire show, Video of the Year, Best Female, Best Male, Best Pop, Best Rock, Best Hip-Pop and Best Collaboration. The Moonman for Best Video of the Year went to Miley Cyrus for “Wrecking Ball”, managing to beat out Beyonće and Jay Z’s “Drunk in Love”, Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX’s “Fancy”, Pharrel William’s “Happy” and Sia’s “Chandelier”. On the other hand, Best Male Video went to Ed Sheeran and Pharrel Williams for their single “Sing” and Best Female Video went to Katy Perry and Juicy J for their single “Dark Horse”.


Futhermore, Ariana Grande’s “Problem” took the Moonman home for Best Pop and “Hold on We’re Going Home” by Drake and Majid Jordan won for Best Hip-Pop. Lets all not forget Lorde and her chart-topper “Royals” that won Best Rock. Moreover, the winners for the non-voting category were Sia’s “Chandelier” for Best Choreography, OK Go’s “Writing on the Wall” for Best Visual Effects, Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor” for Best Art Direction and more. 


The show was entertained with a myriad of performances, opened by Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj and Jessie J with “Break Free”, “Anaconda” and “Bang Bang”. “Break Free” was performed by Ariana Grande with an amazingly out of this world set. It was immediately followed by Nicki Minaj’s jungle themed rendition of “Anaconda”. The femme fatale filled performance was finished with “Bang Bang” performed by all three of the esteemed artists. The VMAs continued with performances from Taylor Swift with her new pop anthem “Shake it Off” and Sam Smith with an heart-clutching rendition of “Stay with Me”. The plethora of performances carried on with Usher featuring Nicki Minaj with “She Came to Give it to You”, “Amnesia” performed by 5 Seconds of Summer and “Black Widow” performed by Iggy Azalea with Rita Ora and Maroon 5 performed “Maps” (for the first time on a major award show) and “One More Night”.
The cornucopia of entertainment were then tied together by Beyonće’s larger-than-life 15 minute medley. The stomping performance compiled all of the tracks from Beyonće’s surprise visual album, from an alluring performance of “Drunk in Love” and “Flawless” to a touching rendition of “Blue” and “XO”. The performance was ended with Beyonće receiving the MTV Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award (also known as the Lifetime Achievement Award, given to artists that helped shape the MTV culture. The award was presented by Beyonce’s husband, Jay Z and their child Blue Ivy.  

The best part of the show was when Miley Cyrus won Video of the Year with “Wrecking Ball”. Much to our surprise, the “Wrecking Ball” singer didn’t go on stage to receive the award. Contrary to last year, when Miley Cyrus caught our attention for all the wrong reasons, she caught our attention this year for one very right reason. That reason was allowing a formerly homeless youth, Jesse, to accept the award on her behalf accompanied by a heartfelt speech. Unlike last year, Miley Cyrus used her popularity along with the popularity of the VMAs to give homeless youths the attention they need. With the most shocking and beautiful moment of the night, there is no more fitting way to end this article than with the young man's speech itself.



“Thank y’all, my name is Jesse and I am accepting this award on behalf of the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youths in the United States who are starving, lost and scared for their lives right now, I know this because I am one of these people. Though I may have been invisible to you in the streets, I have a lot of the same dreams that brought many of you here tonight.”
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