Pop megastar Taylor Swift took home seven trophies on Wednesday at MTV's Video Music Awards, tying her with Beyonce for the most lifetime honors in the 40-year history of the video accolades.
Reuters reports Swift snagged the top prize, video of the year, for her bleak, black-and-white video "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone.
It shows Swift inside a bare psychiatric hospital, a setting she said reflected what she was seeing in her head as she wrote the music for "The Tortured Poets Department" album.
"This video seems very sad when you watch it, but it actually was the most fun video to make," Swift said as she accepted the VMAs Moon Person statuette.
After each take, she would hear a cheer from someone across the studio. "That one person was my boyfriend Travis," she said, referring to Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce.
Swift also thanked her fans for voting for the VMA honors and urged them to cast their ballots in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The singer endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris in an Instagram post on Tuesday, but she did not mention the candidate by name on Wednesday.
By night's end, the 34-year-old Swift brought her career VMA total to 30, on par with hip-hop artist Beyonce. Swift's other awards on Wednesday included artist of the year and song of summer.
Her video of the year award was her third in a row - following an extended version of "All Too Well" in 2022 and "Anti-Hero" in 2023 - and fifth overall, a record for one artist.
🎵VMAas WINNERS:
- Video of the Year: Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”
- Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift
- Best New Artist: Chappell Roan
- Song of the Year: Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”
- Song of the Summer: Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”
- Best Collaboration: Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight” – Republic Records
- Best Trending Video: Megan Thee Stallion ft. Yuki Chiba – “Mamushi”
- Best Pop: Taylor Swift
- Best Alternative: Benson Boone – “Beautiful Things”
- Best Rock: Lenny Kravitz – “Human”
- Best Afrobeats: Tyla – “Water”
- Best Hip-Hop: Eminem – “Houdini”
- Best R&B: SZA – “Snooze”
- Best K-Pop: LISA – “Rockstar”
- Best Latin: Anitta – “Mil Veces”
- Video for Good: Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For (From The Motion Picture “Barbie”)”
- Best Choreography: Dua Lipa – “Houdini”
- Best Art Direction: Megan Thee Stallion – “BOA”
- Best Cinematography: Ariana Grande – “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)”
- Best Direction: Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”
- Best Editing: Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”
- Best Visual Effects: Eminem – “Houdini”
- VMAS Most Iconic Performance: Katy Perry – “Roar”
- Best Group: SEVENTEEN
- Best Push Performance: Le Sserafim – “Easy”
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