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Taylor Swift again urges fans to vote at MTV VMAs

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Agence France-Presse

<div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-1" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_y9GPyRtcZ/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fnews-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A6912261.399999976%2C%22ls%22%3A20358.800000071526%2C%22le%22%3A20589.300000071526%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="881" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-1" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Taylor Swift on Wednesday repeated her call for fans to register to vote in the US presidential election as she accepted MTV&#x27;s top Video Music Award.</p><p>Swift won the Video of the Year for &quot;Fortnight,&quot; which also featured Post Malone, and thanked her loyal Swifties for bestowing her with the fan-chosen award, which she took home for the third straight year.</p><p>&quot;To the fans, I&#x27;m always trying to figure out a way to say thank you to you for making my life what it is,&quot; Swift, who directed the video, said onstage.</p><p>&quot;If you are over 18 please register to vote for something else that is very important,&quot; she added.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CtTMbBzFrjY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>The 34-year-old international megastar&#x27;s call follows her endorsement of Kamala Harris in the minutes after the previous evening&#x27;s presidential debate between the Democratic hopeful and Republican Donald Trump.</p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,&quot; Swift said in a lengthy Instagram post in throwing her support behind the Democratic nominee.</p><p>Also among the night&#x27;s big winners was Chappell Roan, the &quot;Midwest Princess&quot; whose career has skyrocketed in recent months.</p><p>She wore a full suit of armor as she took the stage with a fiery crossbow to channel Joan of Arc in her performance of &quot;Good Luck, Babe!&quot; set in front of a flaming castle.</p><p>She dedicated her Best New Artist trophy to &quot;queer and trans people who feel hot, to the gays who dedicate my songs to someone they love or hate.&quot;</p><p>&quot;And for all the queer kids in the Midwest watching right now I see you,&quot; the Missouri native continued. &quot;I understand you, because I&#x27;m one of you, and don&#x27;t ever let anyone tell you that you can&#x27;t be exactly who you want to be.&quot;</p><div><strong>Performance over prizes</strong></div><p>South Africa&#x27;s Tyla, meanwhile, won Best Afrobeats for &quot;Water,&quot; a result she called &quot;such a big moment for Africa.&quot;</p><p>&quot;The global impact that &#x27;Water&#x27; had on the world just proved that African music can be pop music too,&quot; she said to wild applause. &quot;Like this is just so special but also bittersweet, because I know there&#x27;s a tendency to group all African artists under Afrobeats.&quot;</p><p>&quot;African music is so diverse -- it&#x27;s more than just Afrobeats,&quot; Tyla said.</p><p>The vast majority of awards were doled out offstage during the evening far better known for its performances and stage antics than its prizes.</p><p>Megan Thee Stallion hosted, at one point even recreating Britney Spears&#x27;s iconic 2001 set when she performed with a live python.</p><p>Megan&#x27;s snake was real too -- but she didn&#x27;t have the same stamina as Brit.</p><p>&quot;Come get this snake -- I don&#x27;t know this snake, this snake don&#x27;t know me,&quot; she shrieked as a handler took the reptile from her arms.</p><p>Eminem opened the evening with a recreation of his famous set from the 2000 edition of the awards when he performed &quot;The Real Slim Shady,&quot; packing the stage with a crew of his doppelgangers.</p><p>Fashion-wise it was an evening for the vamps, including Swift in Dior, with a yellow plaid bustier top and open skirt complete with caged leather gloves and velvet hot pants.</p><p>The Reputation-coded outfit was yet another clue for the Swifties that her re-recording of that album was on its way.</p><p>And Sabrina Carpenter arrived in archival Bob Mackie -- the same shimmering push-up strapless gown that Madonna wore to the 1991 Oscars.</p><p>She dropped from the ceiling on a swing to perform songs including &quot;Espresso&quot; to wide applause.</p><p>Carpenter later won the prize for &quot;Song of the Year&quot; for her caffeinated bop.</p><p>Anitta brought her signature high-energy twerks to the stage, while Karol G recreated a Latin bar scene to deliver &quot;Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.&quot;</p><p>Katy Perry was bestowed with the evening&#x27;s top honor, the Video Vanguard prize, which her husband, the actor Orlando Bloom, presented to her.</p><p>Perry also emerged from the air, giving a video-game-meets-Cirque-du-Soleil aerial dancing performance of her greatest hits including &quot;Dark Horse&quot; and &quot;California Gurls.&quot;</p><p>Earlier in the broadcast, while accepting an award with Post Malone for Best Collaboration, Swift acknowledged that this year&#x27;s show fell on September 11.</p><p>She paid homage to those lost in the 2001 attacks, telling the audience &quot;that is the most important thing about today.&quot;</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>Taylor Swift on Wednesday repeated her call for fans to register to vote in the US presidential election as she accepted MTV's top Video Music Award.</p>

Taylor Swift on Wednesday repeated her call for fans to register to vote in the US presidential election as she accepted MTV's top Video Music Award.