King and his renowned career while the camera panned to a guitar on an empty stage. Host Ludacris offered some words about the late B.B. Other performers included Pitbull with Chris Brown and Little Big Town with Faith Hill. Meghan Trainor performed a duet with John Legend and won hot 100 song for 'All About That Bass.' She was teary and shaky onstage, as was her friend and collaborator Charlie Puth, who performed 'See You Again' with Wiz Khalifa earlier in the show. Swift and Zendaya sang along as Nicki Minaj mainly danced, barely singing or rapping live and relying on a backing track during 'Hey Mama' and 'The Night Is Still Young.' She ended with a strong high note, though.īritney Spears was energetic when she performed her new single, 'Pretty Girls,' in a sheer black cat suit alongside Azalea. Taylor Swift is best known and beloved as a storyteller, often weaving personal details. Here's a complete breakdown of 31 songs in Swift's catalog from a queer perspective. Songs like 'Welcome to New York' and 'You Need to Calm Down' contain overt nods to LGBTQ causes. It’s 12 : 00 PM on day 1984 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read 2 Timothy 3, learn one new thing it is true that they are mammals, but dolphins only have hair when they are first born. Taylor Swift fans have long found queer subtext and themes in her music.

She followed it with new single, 'Infinity,' where she also struggled. It's named after the year Perry was born, '1984,' which is only five years off from frenemy Taylor Swift's record-breaking album '1989.' Perhaps Katy is giving Taylor a taste of the 'Bad Blood. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Mariah Carey sang her first hit, 'Vision of Love,' which was pitchy.

Sometimes she thought about all the men she'd ever loved, but it always came back to one man. Van Halen was the night's first performance and rocked the crowd with its 1984 hit 'Panama.' Julia learned that very well a few years ago. Azalea also won top streaming artist and rap artist. Iggy Azalea won top rap song for 'Fancy' as her NBA player boyfriend, Nick Young, watched her with emotion. The boy band also won top touring artist. 'There is one more person to share this with, and that's our brother Zayn,' Liam Payne said of Zayn Malik, who left the group. One Direction, which recently downsized to four members, won the night's first award for top duo/group. 'I am so excited I got to show the world,' Swift told the audience. Nearly six years after the infamous MTV Video Music Awards at which Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swifts award acceptance speech, the two powerhouses have. Swift swapped her first two verses with new ones from rapper Kendrick Lamar for 'Bad Blood,' a song rumored to be about Swift's friendship with Katy Perry.

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