Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, BTS dominate VMAs
Pop stars Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, and South Korean music sensation BTS emerged big winners at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), taking home four Moon Person trophies each at the ceremony. Gaga and Grande, who entered the competition with nine nominations, won three awards – song of the year, best collaboration and best cinematography – for their hit song RainOnMe.
In individual capacity, Gaga won two more trophies of artist of the year and a newly-minted MTV TRICON Award, which recognises a highly accomplished performer across three or more disciplines. The inaugural award recognised Gaga for her talents as a global music superstar, award-winning actor and undisputed fashion icon. The singer has won 13 VMAs, 11 Grammys, an Oscar and Golden Globe awards and has achieved six number one albums.
Talking about their collaboration, Gaga dedicated the award to Grande and herself. “Me and Ariana are truly soul sisters. Girl, this is for us. We’ve both been through some s***...We turned our tears that felt like endless rainfalls into diamonds and I will treasure those diamonds with you forever,” she said.
Prior to their RainOnMe performance, where both of the singers performed in masks to highlight the message of safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, Grande took to Instagram to share her gratitude towards Gaga and their fans.
“Also just want to say thank you to MTV being so diligent in making this such a safe and healthy experience for all of the performers and crew involved. It’s so greatly appreciated and I can’t imagine how difficult it was to figure out,” she wrote. BTS, whose full name is BangtanSonyeondan or Beyond The Scenes as they are known to global audience, had a big night as they four awards for their powerful anthem On. The South Korean septet – comprising RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook– earned VMAs for best pop, best K-pop, best group and best choreography. They also performed their brand new first Englishlanguage single Dynamite live for the very first time.
Another K-pop group, girl band Blackpink, was recognised for their record-breaking track HowYouLike That as the song of the summer.
The quartet, which consists of Lisa, Jennie, Rose, and Jisoo, defeated Cardi B ft Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP, Harry Styles’ WatermelonSugar, Taylor Swift’s Cardigan, among others to win the prize.
video, actor Disha Patani on Sunday treated her fans with a clip that featured her two furry friends. The star posted an amusing video to Instagram as she captures the reaction of her two pets while she enacts and lip-syncs along with the video. In the video, Disha looks gorgeous sporting a white top and matching hairband with her golden locks open while the actor nails a no-makeup look.
As the video starts with the dialogues, the actor hilariously lip-syncs with the dialogues that have been compiled in the rap, and the actor also has added the reaction of two of her pets. As the video progresses, the pets are seen reacting to the video and watching the star saying the dialogues. With the video hitting Instagram, it garnered more than 14 lakh views. Earlier, Kartik Aaryan gave his twist to the viral rap video, and asked the question with folded hands to his fans.