DUESSELDORF, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Taylor Swift walked away with 4 prizes at MTV’s Europe Music Awards on Sunday, together with greatest video for her 10-minute “All Too Properly”.
Double-award winners included Nicki Minaj for greatest track and greatest hip-hop, and the French DJ and file producer David Guetta received the very best digital award and greatest collaboration.
The occasion, broadcast on MTV from Duesseldorf in western Germany, honoured musicians from Brazil to South Korea.
It featured an look by Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, the winner of this 12 months’s Eurovision Tune Contest, which carried out “Stefania” in an enviornment glowing with Ukraine’s nationwide colors of blue and yellow.
The U.S. pop singer Swift, sporting a gown of bejewelled mesh, received greatest artist, greatest pop, greatest video and greatest lengthy kind video.
“I felt like I realized a lot about how making movie could be a pure extension of my storytelling,” Swift stated as she accepted the lengthy kind video award.
In “All Too Properly”, Swift attracts inspiration from Seventies Hollywood and recounts a fraying romantic relationship that disintegrates, abandoning solely a shawl and reminiscences.
“It was uncommon, I used to be there, I bear in mind all of it too effectively”, Swift sings.
[1/4] Taylor Swift receives the award for the Greatest Video in the course of the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) on the PSD Financial institution Dome in Duesseldorf, Germany, November 13, 2022. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Minaj’s successful track “Tremendous Freaky Lady” incorporates the 1981 hit “Tremendous Freak” with lyrics “I can lick it, I can journey it when you slippin’ and slidin'”.
British pop star Harry Kinds received within the “greatest stay” class and the Thai-born Lalisa ‘Lisa’ Manoban received greatest Okay-pop. South Korea’s BTS, the worldwide Okay-pop sensation, received the most important followers class.
The hosts for the present have been British pop star Rita Ora and the movie director Taika Waititi, who married this 12 months. Ora herself received for “greatest look”.
Duesseldorf has a musical heritage as house to the pioneering German digital band Kraftwerk, which influenced generations of pop and dance musicians with mesmerising tracks corresponding to “Autobahn”.
The town additionally hosted the Eurovision Tune Contest in 2011.
Screaming teenagers watched the celebrities stroll down a purple carpet earlier than the occasion was broadcast from the PSD Financial institution Dome.
Julian Lennon, the son of the Beatles’ John Lennon, stated as he entered that he had not seen a live performance in years and was trying ahead to it.
The rock band Muse, which received the very best rock award, stated it was dedicating its victory to the individuals of Ukraine and Iran.
Kalush Orchestra’s frontman Oleh Psiuk, donning a pink hat, stated earlier than the efficiency that he hoped extra Ukrainian bands can be current subsequent 12 months.
Reporting by Matthias Inverardi in Duesseldorf and Tom Sims in Frankfurt. Modifying by Jane Merriman
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