Taylor Swift used her VMA acceptance speech to drop her 2nd political message in 24 hours
Erin Liam Sep 11, 2024
The pop star went home with seven VMA awards, bringing her total to 30.
Less than 24 hours after breaking her silence to endorse her support for presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift has spoken out about voting again.
At the end of her acceptance speech for winning Video of the Year for "Fortnight" at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift said, "The fact that this is a fan-voted award and you voted for this, I appreciate it so much."
Swift added, "And if you are over 18, please register to vote for something else that's very important coming up: The 2024 Presidential Election."
In an Instagram post yesterday, Swift wrote, "I'm voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them."
She ended yesterday's post by encouraging her first-time voters to register to vote. "Remember that in order to vote, you have to be registered!" she wrote. The megastar, who has 284 million followers on Instagram, added a link for voters to register on her story.
A spokesperson from the General Services Administration confirmed with CNBC that her post drove at least 337,826 visitors to Vote.gov, a website where visitors can register to vote.
Apart from winning Video of the Year, Swift took home six other awards: Artist of the Year, Best Collaboration, Best Pop, Best Direction, Best Editing, and Song of the Summer for "Fortnight," which features Post Malone.
With seven awards in the bag, Swift now has a total of 30 VMA awards — and ties with Beyoncé for most VMA wins of all time.
A representative for Swift did not respond to requests for comment sent outside business hours.
Erin Liam Sep 11, 2024
Swift ended her acceptance speech by encouraging viewers over 18 to register to vote. Christopher Polk/ Getty images
Taylor Swift dropped a political message during her Video of the Year acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.
While she did not mention her Kamala Harris endorsement, she encouraged viewers to register to vote.
Taylor Swift dropped a political message during her Video of the Year acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.
While she did not mention her Kamala Harris endorsement, she encouraged viewers to register to vote.
The pop star went home with seven VMA awards, bringing her total to 30.
Less than 24 hours after breaking her silence to endorse her support for presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift has spoken out about voting again.
At the end of her acceptance speech for winning Video of the Year for "Fortnight" at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift said, "The fact that this is a fan-voted award and you voted for this, I appreciate it so much."
Swift added, "And if you are over 18, please register to vote for something else that's very important coming up: The 2024 Presidential Election."
In an Instagram post yesterday, Swift wrote, "I'm voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them."
She ended yesterday's post by encouraging her first-time voters to register to vote. "Remember that in order to vote, you have to be registered!" she wrote. The megastar, who has 284 million followers on Instagram, added a link for voters to register on her story.
A spokesperson from the General Services Administration confirmed with CNBC that her post drove at least 337,826 visitors to Vote.gov, a website where visitors can register to vote.
Apart from winning Video of the Year, Swift took home six other awards: Artist of the Year, Best Collaboration, Best Pop, Best Direction, Best Editing, and Song of the Summer for "Fortnight," which features Post Malone.
With seven awards in the bag, Swift now has a total of 30 VMA awards — and ties with Beyoncé for most VMA wins of all time.
A representative for Swift did not respond to requests for comment sent outside business hours.
Taylor Swift again urges fans to vote at MTV VMAs
By AFP
September 12, 2024
Taylor Swift arrives to attend the MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, on September 11, 2024 - Copyright AFP ADEK BERRY
Angela Weiss, with Maggy Donaldson in New York
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.
Swift won the Video of the Year for “Fortnight,” 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.
“To the fans, I’m always trying to figure out a way to say thank you to you for making my life what it is,” Swift, who directed the video, said onstage.
“If you are over 18 please register to vote for something else that is very important,” she added.
The 34-year-old international megastar’s call follows her endorsement of Kamala Harris in the minutes after the previous evening’s presidential debate between the Democratic hopeful and Republican Donald Trump.
“I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,” Swift said in a lengthy Instagram post in throwing her support behind the Democratic nominee.
Also among the night’s big winners was Chappell Roan, the “Midwest Princess” whose career has skyrocketed in recent months.
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 “Good Luck, Babe!” set in front of a flaming castle.
She dedicated her Best New Artist trophy to “queer and trans people who feel hot, to the gays who dedicate my songs to someone they love or hate.”
“And for all the queer kids in the Midwest watching right now I see you,” the Missouri native continued. “I understand you, because I’m one of you, and don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t be exactly who you want to be.”
– Performance over prizes –
South Africa’s Tyla meanwhile won Best Afrobeats for “Water,” a result she called “such a big moment for Africa.”
“The global impact that ‘Water’ had on the world just proved that African music can be pop music too,” she said to wild applause. “Like this is just so special but also bittersweet, because I know there’s a tendency to group all African artists under Afrobeats.”
“African music is so diverse — it’s more than just Afrobeats,” Tyla said.
The vast majority of awards were doled out offstage during the evening far better known for its performances and stage antics than its prizes.
Megan Thee Stallion hosted, at one point even recreating Britney Spears’s iconic 2001 set when she performed with a live python.
Megan’s snake was real too — but she didn’t have the same stamina as Brit.
“Come get this snake — I don’t know this snake, this snake don’t know me,” she shrieked as a handler took the reptile from her arms.
Eminem opened the evening with a recreation of his famous set from the 2000 edition of the awards when he performed “The Real Slim Shady,” packing the stage with a crew of his doppelgangers.
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.
The Reputation-coded outfit was yet another clue for the Swifties that her re-recording of that album was on its way.
And Sabrina Carpenter arrived in archival Bob Mackie — the same shimmering push-up strapless gown that Madonna wore to the 1991 Oscars.
She dropped from the ceiling on a swing to perform songs including “Espresso” to wide applause.
Carpenter later won the prize for “Song of the Year” for her caffeinated bop.
Anitta brought her signature high-energy twerks to the stage, while Karol G recreated a Latin bar scene to deliver “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.”
Katy Perry was bestowed with the evening’s top honor, the Video Vanguard prize, which her husband, the actor Orlando Bloom, presented to her.
Perry also emerged from the air, giving a video-game-meets-Cirque-du-Soleil aerial dancing performance of her greatest hits including “Dark Horse” and “California Gurls.”
Earlier in the broadcast, while accepting an award with Post Malone for Best Collaboration, Swift acknowledged that this year’s show fell on September 11.
She paid homage to those lost in the 2001 attacks, telling the audience “that is the most important thing about today.”
By AFP
September 12, 2024
Taylor Swift arrives to attend the MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, on September 11, 2024 - Copyright AFP ADEK BERRY
Angela Weiss, with Maggy Donaldson in New York
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.
Swift won the Video of the Year for “Fortnight,” 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.
“To the fans, I’m always trying to figure out a way to say thank you to you for making my life what it is,” Swift, who directed the video, said onstage.
“If you are over 18 please register to vote for something else that is very important,” she added.
The 34-year-old international megastar’s call follows her endorsement of Kamala Harris in the minutes after the previous evening’s presidential debate between the Democratic hopeful and Republican Donald Trump.
“I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them,” Swift said in a lengthy Instagram post in throwing her support behind the Democratic nominee.
Also among the night’s big winners was Chappell Roan, the “Midwest Princess” whose career has skyrocketed in recent months.
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 “Good Luck, Babe!” set in front of a flaming castle.
She dedicated her Best New Artist trophy to “queer and trans people who feel hot, to the gays who dedicate my songs to someone they love or hate.”
“And for all the queer kids in the Midwest watching right now I see you,” the Missouri native continued. “I understand you, because I’m one of you, and don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t be exactly who you want to be.”
– Performance over prizes –
South Africa’s Tyla meanwhile won Best Afrobeats for “Water,” a result she called “such a big moment for Africa.”
“The global impact that ‘Water’ had on the world just proved that African music can be pop music too,” she said to wild applause. “Like this is just so special but also bittersweet, because I know there’s a tendency to group all African artists under Afrobeats.”
“African music is so diverse — it’s more than just Afrobeats,” Tyla said.
The vast majority of awards were doled out offstage during the evening far better known for its performances and stage antics than its prizes.
Megan Thee Stallion hosted, at one point even recreating Britney Spears’s iconic 2001 set when she performed with a live python.
Megan’s snake was real too — but she didn’t have the same stamina as Brit.
“Come get this snake — I don’t know this snake, this snake don’t know me,” she shrieked as a handler took the reptile from her arms.
Eminem opened the evening with a recreation of his famous set from the 2000 edition of the awards when he performed “The Real Slim Shady,” packing the stage with a crew of his doppelgangers.
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.
The Reputation-coded outfit was yet another clue for the Swifties that her re-recording of that album was on its way.
And Sabrina Carpenter arrived in archival Bob Mackie — the same shimmering push-up strapless gown that Madonna wore to the 1991 Oscars.
She dropped from the ceiling on a swing to perform songs including “Espresso” to wide applause.
Carpenter later won the prize for “Song of the Year” for her caffeinated bop.
Anitta brought her signature high-energy twerks to the stage, while Karol G recreated a Latin bar scene to deliver “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.”
Katy Perry was bestowed with the evening’s top honor, the Video Vanguard prize, which her husband, the actor Orlando Bloom, presented to her.
Perry also emerged from the air, giving a video-game-meets-Cirque-du-Soleil aerial dancing performance of her greatest hits including “Dark Horse” and “California Gurls.”
Earlier in the broadcast, while accepting an award with Post Malone for Best Collaboration, Swift acknowledged that this year’s show fell on September 11.
She paid homage to those lost in the 2001 attacks, telling the audience “that is the most important thing about today.”
Even Fox News couldn’t spin the truth: Trump lost the debate—badly.
Joan Walsh
THE NATION
Politics / September 11, 2024
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris listens to former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak during a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024.(Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)
Iwoke up Tuesday morning sick with dread.
There was a time when the idea of a debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and disgraced former president Donald Trump exhilarated me. In July, I was thrilled to hear her directly challenge Trump: “If you’ve got something to say, Donald, say it to my face”
But then I watched the Beltway media repeatedly lower the bar for Trump; by Monday night, I feared all he had to do to win was not use the n-word or the c-word. Maybe that’s extreme, but not by much: All he had to do was not be a snarling, racist, misogynist maniac. “Can Trump restrain himself?” was the top question in a New York Times preview.
Harris, meanwhile, had to introduce herself to the country and project policy chops; plus be likable (but not a needy approval-seeker); plus be aggressive, but not too aggressive (cue the Fox News dog-whistle signaling “Angry Black Woman!”).
During the first debate against Biden, the mentally disintegrating felon proved that he could compose himself, pundits droned. But Biden did so much damage to himself that Trump didn’t have to muss up his shellacked combover to win. Still, many said that’s all he had to do to beat Harris too. He could do it. You could almost hear them saying: He would do it.
By Game Day—because yes, mainstream political reporters mostly cover their beats like sports reporters—it felt like Trump couldn’t lose and Harris couldn’t win.
But he lost. Even Fox News admitted it.
“She was prepared. She kept her cool. She saw advantages and took them. She baited him successfully, which is the story of the debate in my view. So she came out ahead in this, in my opinion, no doubt.”
That was Fox’s Brit Hume.
At about this time, Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris. She wrote to her 283 million followers on Instagram, “I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.” The endorsement was paired with a photo of her holding her cat, Benjamin Button, and she signed it “Childless Cat Lady.”
I wanted Harris to win on her policy chops, and I thought she did throughout the debate. But the media mostly ignores her policy program, paying too much attention to the price of bacon and cereal.
But the acknowledgment from even right-wing cable news that Trump, acting like his normal self, flopped was something I didn’t imagine.
I’ll wake up feeling better Wednesday morning.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris listens to former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak during a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024.(Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)
Iwoke up Tuesday morning sick with dread.
There was a time when the idea of a debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and disgraced former president Donald Trump exhilarated me. In July, I was thrilled to hear her directly challenge Trump: “If you’ve got something to say, Donald, say it to my face”
But then I watched the Beltway media repeatedly lower the bar for Trump; by Monday night, I feared all he had to do to win was not use the n-word or the c-word. Maybe that’s extreme, but not by much: All he had to do was not be a snarling, racist, misogynist maniac. “Can Trump restrain himself?” was the top question in a New York Times preview.
Harris, meanwhile, had to introduce herself to the country and project policy chops; plus be likable (but not a needy approval-seeker); plus be aggressive, but not too aggressive (cue the Fox News dog-whistle signaling “Angry Black Woman!”).
During the first debate against Biden, the mentally disintegrating felon proved that he could compose himself, pundits droned. But Biden did so much damage to himself that Trump didn’t have to muss up his shellacked combover to win. Still, many said that’s all he had to do to beat Harris too. He could do it. You could almost hear them saying: He would do it.
By Game Day—because yes, mainstream political reporters mostly cover their beats like sports reporters—it felt like Trump couldn’t lose and Harris couldn’t win.
But he lost. Even Fox News admitted it.
“She was prepared. She kept her cool. She saw advantages and took them. She baited him successfully, which is the story of the debate in my view. So she came out ahead in this, in my opinion, no doubt.”
That was Fox’s Brit Hume.
At about this time, Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris. She wrote to her 283 million followers on Instagram, “I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.” The endorsement was paired with a photo of her holding her cat, Benjamin Button, and she signed it “Childless Cat Lady.”
I wanted Harris to win on her policy chops, and I thought she did throughout the debate. But the media mostly ignores her policy program, paying too much attention to the price of bacon and cereal.
But the acknowledgment from even right-wing cable news that Trump, acting like his normal self, flopped was something I didn’t imagine.
I’ll wake up feeling better Wednesday morning.
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