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Welcome to our MTV VMAs live blog

It’s MTV Video Music Awards day! This is exciting because, a) it’s been too long since our last Hollywood awards ceremony, and b) the VMAs are basically the Oscars of awards shows. If that makes no sense, then that’s the correct spirit for the VMAs, which are always a little nuts.

Among those we’re looking out for today are Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat and Troye Sivan.Credit: Artwork: Aresna Villanueva

Today’s event, the awards’ 40th installment, is coming live from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, with none other than Nicki Minaj on hosting duties. But if the Harajuku Barbie doesn’t do it for you, stick with us – our live blog will be bringing you all the fun from the red carpet and beyond.

If you’d like to watch along, the show’s being broadcast on 10 Peach (you know, that channel where you watch all your Becker repeats) from 11am AEST.

Joining me on the blog today will be style editor Damien Woolnough, who will be leading us through the red carpet looks, and culture and lifestyle reporter Nell Geraets. Strap in, it’s sure to be… something.

Best K-pop is the best category

Every awards show should have a category this specific. Proving the genre’s global dominance, Dixie and Charli D’Amelio get onstage to present the award for best K-pop music video to supergroup Stray Kids. If you’re shocked by their Australian accents, you should know – Bang Chan and Felix grew up in Sydney. We can claim this one, right?

Stray Kids arrive at the awards.Credit: Invision

Hawt couture has arrived

Once the realm of socialites and princesses from the Middle East, couture has crawled onto the VMAs red carpet. Brazilian singer Annita has followed in Lady Gaga’s footsteps by tapping haute couture label Schiaparelli, helmed by American Daniel Roseberry.

Annita in Schiaparelli and Saweetie in Area couture.Credit: Instagram

The peek-a-boo gown gives keyhole cut a surreal twist, befitting the label’s artistic founder Elsa Schiaparelli. Rapper Saweetie has embraced US couture, in a pink gown with bone details that might prompt Mattel to release a Flintstones Barbie.

Time to send the children away, it’s Bongos time

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, who killed the Grammys a couple of years ago with their viral WAP, are back with another collaboration called Bongos. It’s about their butts, I think. Understandably, about half the performance is bleeped out. But Taylor, out in the crowd, is feeling it.

Megan Thee Stallion on the red carpet.Credit: Invision

Olivia Rodrigo got him back

Olivia Rodrigo, the pop star of the moment, opened the show with a killer performance of Get Him Back, the best song on her new album Guts, alongside 15 Olivia doppelgangers.

Popstar of the moment, Olivia Rodrigo arrives.Credit: Invision

If you’ve ever wanted to see a moshpit of Olivia Rodrigos, it’s your lucky day.

Taylor grabs her first win of the night, from NSync

We’ve started and Taylor Swift, seated at the awards right next to Ice Spice, has claimed the first prize, winning best pop music video for her single Anti-Hero. She grabs the award from a reunited NSync. “You’re pop personified. To receive this from your golden pop hands, it’s too much,” she says.

Swift arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards.Credit: Invision

Shakira’s kids sport Elton John vibes

Shakira with her children Sasha Pique Mebarak (left) and Milan Pique Mebarak at the VMAs.Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Shakira’s hips famously don’t lie, but her stylist might. Convincing the Colombian superstar’s children Sasha and Milan Pique Mebarak that their Versace tracksuits are a good choice deserves a style intervention.

While Shakira is a sparkly glam sensation, her children look as though they’re dressed as Elton John for an early Halloween.

Taylor’s throwback to Cindy Crawford

Italian luxury label Versace has started strong out of the gates on the VMAs red carpet with Taylor Swift in one of their signature, strappy designs.

Taylor Swift in Versace at 2023 VMAs. Model Cindy Crawford attends the Ninth Annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1992.Credit: Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

The dress is a quiet throwback to supermodel Cindy Crawford’s Versace dress from the 1992 VMAs. Crawford has a permanent place on Swift’s mood board, even appearing in the singer’s music video for Bad Blood.

Who’s in the running?

Leading the nominees this year is Taylor Swift, who’s up for eight prizes, including the coveted Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for Karma.

R&B superstar SZA follows with six nods, and then five each for Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and Kim Petras and Sam Smith. If anything, the night is primed for an Olivia Rodrigo takeover.

Fresh off the triumph of her new album Guts, the 20-year-old is favoured to win the night’s top honour, Video of the Year, for her acclaimed single Vampire, although Doja Cat’s madcap Attention could steal the whole thing.

But let’s be honest, the awards are the least important part of the MTV VMAs. No one’s obituary is gonna start with, “Kendrick Lamar, winner of MTV’s Video of the Year in 2017…”.

This show’s all about the performances, and there’s some good ones on the cards. Rodrigo will be taking the stage, ready to cast fear and fury across all the dumb boys (and Taylor Swift?) who wronged her ahead of her new album cycle.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, who debuted their infamous WAP at the Grammys in 2021, are gifting their new single Bongos to the VMAs in what will surely be a completely safe-for-work recital.

I’m excited for Fall Out Boy to do their very embarrassing 2023 update of We Didn’t Start the Fire (“Captain Planet, Arab Spring…“), and please pray for Australian country star Morgan Evans when his ex-wife Kelsea Ballerini takes the stage. And then there’s the medleys: Diddy, recipient of this year’s Global Icon award, will perform one so get ready for Ma$e and a Biggie hologram, and so will Shakira, this year’s Video Vanguard icon. It’s time for our hips to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I’m ready.

MTV VMAs 4EVA

“Why are the MTV VMAs at all significant?” I hear you (or the downer voice in my head) ask. Where do I even start?

From Miley Cyrus’ infamous twerkathon (2013), to Lady Gaga’s meat dress (2010), to Kanye’s “Imma let you finish” of Taylor Swift (2009), to Britney and Madonna’s kiss (2003), to Fiona Apple’s “this world is bullshit” speech (1997), to Courtney Love pelting Madonna with items from her handbag (1995), the VMAs have long provided some of the most enduring moments in pop culture history.

Lady Gaga, complete with steak headgear in 2010.Credit: AFP

Who will own that moment today? My money’s on the ever-unpredictable Doja Cat, but we’ll see. Anything’s possible.

Welcome to our MTV VMAs live blog

It’s MTV Video Music Awards day! This is exciting because, a) it’s been too long since our last Hollywood awards ceremony, and b) the VMAs are basically the Oscars of awards shows. If that makes no sense, then that’s the correct spirit for the VMAs, which are always a little nuts.

Among those we’re looking out for today are Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat and Troye Sivan.Credit: Artwork: Aresna Villanueva

Today’s event, the awards’ 40th installment, is coming live from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, with none other than Nicki Minaj on hosting duties. But if the Harajuku Barbie doesn’t do it for you, stick with us – our live blog will be bringing you all the fun from the red carpet and beyond.

If you’d like to watch along, the show’s being broadcast on 10 Peach (you know, that channel where you watch all your Becker repeats) from 11am AEST.

Joining me on the blog today will be style editor Damien Woolnough, who will be leading us through the red carpet looks, and culture and lifestyle reporter Nell Geraets. Strap in, it’s sure to be… something.

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