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Katy Perry Accepts Video Vanguard Award With Dance-Heavy Hits Medley, Encourages Other Artists to ‘Block Out the Noise’


Katy Perry's Video Vanguard performance at the VMAs featured a career-spanning hits medley, while her speech gave artists social media advice.

You know her as a global superstar who brings love light and her unique sense of humor to every song she writes and every music video she creates. After a short video intro, Katy Perry began her career-spanning performance with a remixed version of her “Dark Horse” collab with Juicy J, as she hung suspended from the middle of a big webby circle on stage. She went on to give thanks to a few people, including her team, her label Capitol Records and her parents (“We don’t always agree, but what a lesson that those disagreements can still be full of love”).

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