CAMILA SHOCKS AT MTV VMAS

The former Fifth Harmony singer surprisingly beat out the likes of Drake, Bruno Mars, Cardi B, Ariana Grande and Post Malone for the Artist of the Year award, as the industry’s top acts gave the event a miss. Plus, all the fashion from the red carpet

WITH MOST OF music industry’s top acts absent – from Beyonce to Bruno Mars – the MTV Video Music Awards lacked star power and felt flat, and some of the winners turned heads – for the wrong reasons.

Exhibit A: Camila Cabello beat out Drake, Mars, Cardi B, Ariana Grande and Post Malone for artist of the year.

“I can’t believe this is for me,” Cabello said Monday onstage.

Neither can we.

Cabello achieved the unthinkable later in the show when she took home the top prize – video of the year – for Havana. Cabello’s song was a No. 1 hit and of the video of the year nominees, Havana was the second-most viewed clip behind Drake’s

God’s Plan. But that’s partly since Havana was released last year while the other videos came out this year.

It was the night’s most shocking moment, and MTV seemed to send a message: You’re punished for not showing up and rewarded for attending.

Grande won best pop and Post Malone took home song of the year. Drake, the most successful musician of the last year, didn’t win a single award. Beyonce, Jay-z, Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar were restricted to technical honors like editing, art direction, cinematography and visual effects. And Gambino picked up best direction, choreography and video with a message for his heralded video This Is America.

The show hit another low when Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B and DJ Khaled won best collaboration for Dinero – a song that has peaked at No. 80 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart – besting the recordsetting hit Meant to Be, by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line, and Mars and Cardi B’s anthemic

Finesse remix.

Haddish get sarcastic

After congratulating ex-fifth Harmony member Cabello on her five nominations, Haddish said sarcastically, Hi Fifth Harmony. When Nicki Minaj accepted an award moments later, she looked to Haddish and said, “Don’t be coming for Fifth Harmony because Normani is that (chick).” Normani currently has her first hit apart from the group with the Khalid-assisted

Love Lies.

Minaj, who has been a trending topic this week after she madly tweeted about why her new album debuted at No. 2 behind Travis Scott, also provided the first bleeped moment of the night when she told the audience to listen to her Apple Music radio show this week to hear “who the (expletive) of the day award is going to.”

There was just one political moment, orchestrated when Logic was joined onstage by young immigrants wearing T-shirts that read, “We are all human beings” to protest the Trump administration’s separation of migrant children from their parents after they illegally crossed the Us-mexico border. The rapper, best known for the suicide prevention anthem 1-800-273-8255, wore a T-shirt that read, “(Expletive) the wall.”

There was one posthumous winner: Avicii, who died in April, won for best dance for Lonely

Together alongside Rita Ora.

I can’t believe this is for me.”

Camila Cabello