MTV awards to feature cutting-edge videos
This year's Video Music Awards ceremony may celebrate music videos as it originally intended to
New York
AS music awards shows go, MTV's annual Video Music Awards ceremony - the VMAs - is by far the loosest, the most vibrant and the most prone to disruption. It has long been the platform where pop stars know a medium amount of misbehaviour will be tolerated - encouraged, actually. The show isn't about trophies, but moments. That MTV itself isn't much in the music business anymore only makes the playing field clearer for provocation: Acting out here is like trashing a hotel room, not your house.
Accordingly, in recent years, the most memorable parts of the awards have been . . . not quite musical. There was the Kanye West-Taylor Swift…
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