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Shawn Mendes debuted a new song from his upcoming album Shawn live at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday (Sept. 11) at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York. Mendes and his band delivered the new tune on a massive rug lined with candles on a smoky stage, giving the whole performance a casual, living-room aura. Titled “Nobody Knows,” the song started out in a slow, folk-rock vein before gradually growing in intensity, reaching an emphatic, impactful climax. Toward the end of the song, Mendes turned away from his adoring fans and faced his drummer, strumming furiously on…
Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav is a man of his word, and the rapper proved it on Wednesday night (Sept. 11) when he presented U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles with a very special custom neck piece. The veteran MC took the stage to hand out the first award at the 2024 MTV VMAs alongside the American athlete, who was stripped of her bronze medal at this summer’s Paris Olympics due to a scoring dispute during the women’s individual floor exercise. But Flav, who has become one of the nation’s most ardent athletic supporters this year, made things right. Taking the stage in…
Eminem added another MTV VMAs moment to his mantle when he opened the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards in style on Wednesday night (Sept. 11). The rapper — who received eight nominations this year — kicked off the show at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., where he entered from the aisles in a blond wig alongside a phalanx of Slim Shady look-alikes. Em stormed out of the tunnel with a dynamic performance of his The Death of Slim Shady lead single “Houdini,” which notched him his highest charting Billboard Hot 100 hit (No. 2) this decade. The real Slim Shady…
Karol G shared her fiery Latina flavor at the VMAs with some of the show’s biggest stars. Karol G graced the 2024 Video Music Awards on Wednesday to perform her recent single, “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido,” in front of a beachy backdrop before she shimmied to her merengue hit alongside Camila Cabello and Taylor Swift. “Los extraño un montón,” she said to start the performance. “I miss y’all a lot!” Karol G opened her performance in front of the flags of all the countries in Latin America. Then, she walked toward the main stage, which had been transformed into a…
Eminem kicked off the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards with a performance of “Houdini” and his Jelly Roll collaboration “Somebody Save Me” off his latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). The performance opened with a short skit in which a mass of Slim Shady clones stormed New York’s UBS Arena under the leadership of Eminem as he rapped the opening lyrics of “Without Me” from 2002’s The Eminem Show. In a choppy blonde wig of his own, Eminem used the opening as a reference to his entrance at the 2000 MTV VMAs, when he performed “The…
BELIEVE IT OR not, the 2024 VMAs have officially arrived. On Wednesday, the biggest names in music gathered for the MTV Video Music Awards to see who would take home the night’s top prizes. Taylor Swift led the pack of nominees with 10 nods, almost all of which were for the visual for her Tortured Poets Department single with Post Malone, “Fortnight.” The clip is up for the night’s big prize, Video of the Year, offering Swift the chance to notch a record-extending fifth victory in that category. She’s also up for Artist of the Year, while the “Fortnight” visual picked up additional nods for Song of the Year,…
The Alchemist and ScHoolboy Q link up once again on the producer’s lead single from his upcoming album The Genuine Articulate and he’s going to be rapping on this one. “Ferraris in the Rain” features Alchemist hoppin’ out various luxury vehicles to lay down some heat. “Look, I whip the ‘Rari in the rain/Ice in my veins, I’m sippin’ on Bacardi straight/ Just gettin’ started, I hardly ate/ Icin’ all on me, I’m a birthday party cake,” he spits as he literally hops out of a Ferrari SF90 Stradale. ScHoolboy then follows up with the last verse. “The rose grill,…
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Makeup and matchmaking: Tinder and e.l.f. Cosmetics have debuted a spicy collaboration to help singles “face the first date.” Released Tuesday (Sept. 10), the e.l.f. x Tinder “Put Your e.l.f. Out There” Vault collection features lip oils and lip liner, in addition to three exclusive products: All Slick, No Ick Face Primer and Set-uationship Setting Mist packaged in a Flame Changer makeup bag. The set’s Tinder Box…
The Taylor Swift effect has taken hold of politics. After announcing her endorsement of Kamala Harris for president after the Tuesday (Sept. 10) presidential debate, Swift then shared a link to Vote.gov in an Instagram story. A spokesperson for the U.S. General Services Commission, an independent U.S. government agency that supports various other federal agencies, confirmed to Billboard that as of 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday (Sept. 11) — 15 hours after Swift’s post — 337,826 visitors were referred to Vote.gov from the custom URL created and shared by the pop star. Vote.gov directs voters to their state election websites for…
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