Timberlake wins top award as Cyrus, Gaga put on show
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Miley Cyrus’ foam finger, Lady Gaga’s thong and Taylor Swift’s mean streak will surely be remembered, but these MTV Video Music Awards belonged to Justin Timberlake.
Timberlake briefly reunited with ’N Sync, won moonman trophies including top honor video of the year for “Mirrors” plus the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and managed to overshadow most of today’s top pop stars while doing it.
“I don’t deserve the award, but I’m not going to give it back,” Timberlake said. “I’m taking this home.”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were the night’s other top winners, taking home trophies for best hip-hop video and best cinematography for “Can’t Hold Us,” and best video with a social message for “Same Love.” They performed it with Mary Lambert and Jennifer Hudson in a show-stopping moment.
“Gay rights are human rights,” Macklemore said. “There is no separation.”
It was one of the few poignant moments in a night filled with spectacle, spite and lots and lots of skin.
Up till then, the ladies of pop music dominated as an X-rated Cyrus became the rare artist to upstage the recently rehabilitated Lady Gaga. But a vengeful Swift managed to take the spotlight from both after appearing to utter an expletive to Selena Gomez when One Direction and rumored former love interest Harry Styles appeared at Sunday night’s award show — a moment that lit up Twitter and was memorialized immediately in a GIF online.
Swift wasn’t the only one with a strong reaction to One Direction — cheers mixed with boos as they won song of the summer for “Best Song Ever.”
And she thanked a former beau for helping her win in the best female video category for “I Knew You Were Trouble.”
“I also want to thank the person who inspired this song, who knows exactly who he is, because I got one of these,” Swift said. “Thank you!”
Gaga changed costumes four times during her first return to the stage since hip surgery as she performed her new single “Applause” at the top of the show. It was a predictably unpredictable appearance for Gaga, who pumped in boos over the sound system as she opened the song in a white nun’s habit and square headdress.
By the time she finished, she was surrounded by unitard-clad male dancers and wearing a thong bikini and a long blonde wig.
Cyrus kicked things up well beyond provocative, however, as she appeared on stage with a multitude of dancing teddy bears in a body suit adorned with a cartoon character. She sang “We Can’t Stop,” changed into a nude bikini, ran a fan’s foam finger along her privates as Robin Thicke appeared on stage to perform “Blurred Lines,” then gave the singer a lap dance.
“Miley better go get a pregnancy test after all that grinding,” comedian Kevin Hart joked afterward.
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