MTV video awards 2024_ Taylor Swift becomes VMAs’ most-decorated solo artist

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00:00I've just been thinking about what happened 23 years ago everyone who lost a loved one and everyone that we lost and

00:09That is the most important thing about today and everything that happens tonight

00:15As you can see I am repping team VMA and tonight VMA stands for the voluptuous Megan Awards

00:30Me

00:38This is really special the first people I want to thank are the fans

00:52My katy cats

00:54You

00:56Stood by me for a lifetime and the LGBTQ community who I recognize I would not be here without

01:10The global impact that water has had on the world just proves that African music can be pop music, too

01:20This is just

01:21So special but also bittersweet because I know there's a tendency to group all

01:28African artists under Afrobeats

01:30It's a thing and even though Afrobeats has run things and has opened so many doors for us

01:36African music is so diverse. It's more than just Afrobeats

01:52I

01:58Something that I'll always remember is that when I would finish a take and I'd and I'd say cut and we'd be done with that

02:05Take I would always just hear like

02:08someone like like cheering and like

02:15From across the studio where we were shooting it and that that one person was my boyfriend Travis

02:21You