Shockers of MTV's 2015 VMAs

By Jessi Stickel on September 2, 2015

Every year at MTV’s Video Music Awards some kind of drama goes down the with celebrities and artists. The most popular is probably when Kanye West hijacked Taylor Swift’s award for Best Female Music Video in 2009 on live television.

The VMAs has not had a host since 2012, when Kevin Hart hosted. This year’s award show was hosted by the popular and former “Hannah Montana” star, Miley Cyrus, which we all did not know what to expect.

If you didn’t catch the awards on August 31 or just want a recap of all the crazy stuff you saw … here are the major shockers of the 2015 VMAs.

The battle: Nicki vs. Miley

After winning her Moon Man for “Best Hip-Hop Video” for her hit song “Anaconda,” rapper Nicki Minaj called out Miley Cyrus. Minaj blurted out “…And now back to this b*tch that had a lot to say about me the other day to the press. Miley, what’s good?”

Nicki was referring to their recent beef on Twitter between Taylor Swift and herself. The two artists were arguing after Nicki Minaj was angry her song “Anaconda” was not nominated for video of the year, and white blonde girl’s videos were. Later on, The New York Times asked Miley what she thought about the controversy and she stated that Nicki Minaj is not too kind and not very polite.

Miley was obviously taken off guard. Her comeback on live television was “Hey, we are all in this industry, we all do interviews and we all know how they manipulate sh*t. Nicki, congratulations,” and went on with her rehearsed commentary for the show.

There are rumors going around that Minaj was just joking about the whole thing, but who really knows with her.

Bieber brought on the waterworks

Justin Bieber took the stage at the VMAs for the first time in five years. He performed “Where Are You Now” and his newest song “What Do You Mean?” that was just released Friday, August 31.

Towards the end his performance of “What Do You Mean” Bieber flew above the stage (while attached to strings, of course); however, afterwards he landed as the song ended and immediately started crying, and not just a glistening tear either.

Justin has not said anything about his breakdown on social media since then. No one has said why Justin was so emotional after this performance. I could take a guess that both of the songs were about his ex-girlfriend, Selena Gomez, and that is why he was so emotional. Or Justin could have just been thankful that he got to perform at the VMAs and still had fans after the way he was acting a year ago.

Either way, Justin, we are glad you got your crap together and stopped acting like a punk!

Future Mr. President West?

Rapper Kanye West was awarded with the “Vanguard” award at this year’s VMAs. After hugging Taylor Swift, who announced his achievement, he gave a very long speech on how the world should be teaching children and changing society. He talked about how having a daughter has changed him and how he thinks now.

West stated things such as: “Listen to the kids.” “We not gonna teach low self-esteem and hate to our kids.” “It’s about ideas. People with ideas. People who believe in truth.”

In the last part of his speech Kanye announced he has decided he is running for president in 2020 and walked off the stage.

We really do not know if he was actually serious about running. However, earlier in his speech he contradicted himself saying “I’m not no politician.” He also admitted he smoked “a little somethin” before going on stage that night.

Neither Kanye nor Kim has posted anything about this on social media. For the Kardashians however, Kourtney Kardashian posted an Instagram picture making a joke of Kanye running for president. The picture refers to their show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” future season being in the White House. Sisters Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian also posted similar pictures.

Mileysmokes pot and loves peace

Miley is now pretty much known for being wild, crazy and sometimes just plain strange. She tends to express herself through her outfits and especially at the night of the awards.

These are some of her outfits of the awards night. Most of them were quite revealing, and some just strange. Miley also chose to have blonde dreads for the night, but her usual and natural hair is fairly short.

Miley ended the award show with a bang, she actually performed a song herself. No, this song was not a song from her “Bangerz” album, it was a brand-new song that she decided to release on the VMAs along with the announcement of a new album. The song was called “Dooo It!” and it basically said over and over “Yeah I smoke pot,  yeah I love peace. But I don’t give a f*uck.”

Definitely not Miley’s best, and if you didn’t think she was a freak before you will after watching her performance.  Her new album is called “Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz”  and it is not on iTunes, it is free on Soundcloud. If you want to download her latest album go here.

Miley was not necessarily the best host the VMAs has ever had, but we have to admit that she did keep things entertaining throughout the night.

 

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