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Taylor, Megan, Chappell, and Sabrina Turn the 2024 VMAs Into a Real, Live Party

The 2024 MTV VMAs saw Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter turn the Video Music Awards into a real live party.

She wore armor and used a crossbow to shoot a flaming arrow into a castle as she did “Good Luck, Babe!” It would have been perfect to see a chainmail-clad Chappell grab that red-carpet paparazzo who told her to shut up and disembowel him onstage with her bare hands. Karol G showed everybody what true star power looks like with her all-over-the-room rendition of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.” Halsey did some excellent garage-rock, in an actual onstage garage, debuting the scathingly honest “Ego.” There were great performances from Glorilla, Benson Boone, and Rauw Alejandro, who was introduced by the model Alessandra Ambrosio. Tyla won the Best Afrobeat category and gave an excellent speech praising the reach and diversity of African music, while charmingly insisting that a not-entirely-willing Lil Nas X come over and carry her Moon Person for her, since it was too heavy, while she declared, “Thank you MTV, my team, God, everyone.”

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