Taylor Swift Wins Top MTV Award, Announces New Album
2022-08-30
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1Singer Taylor Swift received the top honor at the yearly MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Sunday at the Prudential Center in the state of New Jersey.
2Swift won the award for Music Video of the Year, her 14th VMA in her career so far.
3MTV is a well-known music video television channel.
4She accepted the award for the 10-minute-long re-recorded version of her 2012 song All Too Well about a romantic breakup.
5At the award ceremony, Swift thanked her fans, called "Swifties."
6She said, "We wouldn't have been able to make this short film if it weren't for you, the fans."
7She added that she would not have been able to re-record her albums without their support either.
8Recently, she re-recorded two albums, Fearless and Red, after a disagreement with her former record company.
9Taylor commented that, for the first time in the award show's history, four of the video directors nominated for Video of The Year are women.
10Swift also announced that her new album would be released on October 21.
11Later, she posted on social media that the new album called Midnights will include music that she wrote during 13 nights throughout her life when she could not fall asleep.
12The VMAs also showed the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny while he was giving a sold-out performance at New York's Yankee Stadium.
13He won the award for Artist of the Year.
14Other winners include Dove Cameron for Best New Artist and Harry Styles who received the Album of the Year award for Harry's House.
15Nicki Minaj won the Video Vangaurd Award for her influence on popular music.
16Minaj then performed a combination of some of her most popular songs like Anaconda and Super Bass.
17She also honored artists who inspired her.
18"I wish that Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson were here.
19I wish that people understood what they meant, what they were going through (and) took mental health seriously."
20Other performers at the VMAs included rappers Snoop Dogg and Eminem, the K-pop band Blackpink, rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and plus-sized singer Lizzo, who also won an award.
21I'm Faith Pirlo.
1Singer Taylor Swift received the top honor at the yearly MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Sunday at the Prudential Center in the state of New Jersey. 2Swift won the award for Music Video of the Year, her 14th VMA in her career so far. MTV is a well-known music video television channel. 3She accepted the award for the 10-minute-long re-recorded version of her 2012 song All Too Well about a romantic breakup. 4At the award ceremony, Swift thanked her fans, called "Swifties." 5She said, "We wouldn't have been able to make this short film if it weren't for you, the fans." 6She added that she would not have been able to re-record her albums without their support either. Recently, she re-recorded two albums, Fearless and Red, after a disagreement with her former record company. 7Taylor commented that, for the first time in the award show's history, four of the video directors nominated for Video of The Year are women. 8Swift also announced that her new album would be released on October 21. 9Later, she posted on social media that the new album called Midnights will include music that she wrote during 13 nights throughout her life when she could not fall asleep. 10The VMAs also showed the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny while he was giving a sold-out performance at New York's Yankee Stadium. He won the award for Artist of the Year. 11Other winners include Dove Cameron for Best New Artist and Harry Styles who received the Album of the Year award for Harry's House. 12Nicki Minaj won the Video Vangaurd Award for her influence on popular music. Minaj then performed a combination of some of her most popular songs like Anaconda and Super Bass. She also honored artists who inspired her. 13"I wish that Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson were here. I wish that people understood what they meant, what they were going through (and) took mental health seriously." 14Other performers at the VMAs included rappers Snoop Dogg and Eminem, the K-pop band Blackpink, rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and plus-sized singer Lizzo, who also won an award. 15I'm Faith Pirlo. 16Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway wrote this article for Reuters. Faith Pirlo adapted it for Learning English. 17_____________________________________________________________________ 18Words in This Story 19romantic -adj. making someone think of love; bringing ideas of romance 20sold-out - adj. of or relating to an event where all the tickets have been sold 21inspire - v. to make want to do something ; to give an idea about what to do or create 22plus-size - adj. relating to a larger size of clothes 23_____________________________________________________________________ 24Are you excited for Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights? 25We want to hear from you. We have a new comment system. Here is how it works: 26Each time you return to comment on the Learning English site, you can use your account and see your comments and replies to them. Our comment policy is here.