{"id":140866,"date":"2025-09-08T04:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140866\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:19:09","slug":"ariana-grande-wins-video-of-the-year-following-performances-by-lady-gaga-mariah-carey-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140866\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande wins Video of the Year following performances by Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey and others"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mariah<\/p>\n

Mariah Carey. (Manny Carabel\/Getty Images for MTV)<\/p>\n

Ahead of receiving this year’s Video Vanguard Award, Mariah Carey serenaded audiences with a medley of some of her greatest hits.<\/p>\n

Dressed in a luxurious, champagne-colored robe, Carey kicked things off with “Sugar Sweet,” before going into “Fantasy,” “Heartbreaker,” Obsessed,” and “It’s Like That.” She finished the medley with her beloved chart-topper, “We Belong Together.”<\/p>\n

Ariana Grande returned to the stage to hand Carey her Moon Person. The “Touch My Body” singer-songwriter then delivered a moving speech in which she reflected on her career \u2014 and joked about how long it’s taken MTV to recognize her achievements.<\/p>\n

“Thank you so much, MTV, for giving me the Vanguard Award. I can’t believe I’m getting my first VMA tonight. I just have one question: What in the Sam Hell were you waiting for?!”<\/p>\n

Carey continued, “Music videos are my way of life, of bringing music to my own life. Mini movies visualizing the sheer fantasy of it all.”<\/p>\n

She then referenced a slew of iconic music video moments throughout her career, like “going in drag for ‘Obsessed,’ playing my alter ego, Bianca, in ‘Heartbreaker,’ escaping the mob in ‘Honey’ with a hot guy on a remote island.”<\/p>\n

Carey added, “Music evolves, videos evolve, but the fun? That is eternal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey. (Manny Carabel\/Getty Images for MTV) Ahead of receiving this year’s Video Vanguard Award, Mariah Carey serenaded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12875,87693,88,3287,23385,45291,63843,69114],"class_list":{"0":"post-140866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-brighter-days-ahead","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-lady-gaga","12":"tag-mariah-carey","13":"tag-mtv-video-music-awards","14":"tag-ricky-martin","15":"tag-video-vanguard-award"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}