Music’s most meaningless awards show returned to Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center last night. The VMAs have been a husk of its former self for a while now, and this year’s edition isn’t going to change that. Still, it’s a relatively sizable platform amid the increasingly fragmented world of music, and a lot of beloved stars showed up to perform, including Olivia Rodrigo, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Shakira, and Doja Cat.
The biggest star in the building, Taylor Swift, didn’t sing a word, but still managed to be the main character. Along with collecting a gang of trophies for her “Anti-Hero” video, she once again stole the spotlight with her exaggerated reactions, rhythm-curious dancing, and gobsmacked acceptance speeches. She fawned over a reunited *NSync (“Are you doing something?!” she asked them, almost as a dare). She blew a kiss to the Måneskin guy. She obediently waved her hands side to side during an all-star version of “Walk This Way.” She made the show a little more fun to watch—which is more than we can say for some of the people who actually played. Here are the best and worst moments of the 2023 VMAs.
The Best
Olivia Rodrigo couldn’t exactly clone herself for the VMAs, but she pulled off a show-stopping fake-out nonetheless. Lounging in a blood-red tennis outfit amid lush foliage on the Prudential Center stage, Rodrigo first slipped into her vengeful Guts ballad “Vampire.” The set recreated director Petra Collins’ calamitous visual for the single, complete with falling plants, a shower of sparks, and askew camera angles. Rodrigo, who seems to foster an impish thirst for chaos, escaped the “fiasco” unscathed, and then launched into a bracing rendition of the brilliantly indecisive new song “Get Him Back!”
Fronting a chorus of Olivia lookalikes (in bubblegum pink tennis fits), the singer contorted through the emotional rollercoaster of loving, losing, and plotting revenge. Her backup dancers followed suit, their campy expressions flitting between joy and treachery, lending the scene a delightfully creepy edge. The performance culminated in a giddy fit of flailing and squealing, before Rodrigo’s stand-ins did a synchronized death drop. There is, of course, only one real Olivia Rodrigo—but be careful not to piss her off. She just might multiply. –Madison Bloom
Shakira has long reminded us that she has the range. After all, the 46-year-old Colombian icon has taken Ivy League-level philosophy courses, broken Guinness World Records, and taught herself English by reading the works of Leonard Cohen and Walt Whitman. Now she can count the Video Vanguard Award among her many accomplishments.
Showing exactly why she deserves such an honor, she ran through 25 years of hits, from classics like “Ojos Así” to her recent eviscerating Gerard Piqué kiss-off, in a breathless, 10-minute medley. She first appeared in a golden cube, a nod to her classic 2009 video for “She Wolf,” contorting her body into the kinds of physics-defying shapes only she can. From there, her versatility shone through: There was derbake drumming, crowd surfing in a vueltiao hat, and even some knife dancing. Somehow, through it all, she barely broke a sweat. –Isabelia Herrera
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