Yung Lean and a large swath of dancers recreated the viral music video featuring Damien Jalet\u2019s mesmerizing choreography<\/p>\n
\n\tYung Lean<\/a> and a horde of dancers lit up the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards<\/a> stage with the live premiere of Lean\u2019s collaboration with GENER8ION<\/a>, \u201cStorm II,\u201d marking their debut at the MTV VMAs<\/a>. A high point of the evening, the artists and dancers recreated the music video for the second of their two-part \u201cStorm\u201d in front of a live audience.<\/p>\n \n\tAt the top of their performance, Yung Lean grabbed a Moon Person before making his way to the main stage and smashing the statue on the ground. Directly mirroring the music video, Yung Lean was flanked by a swath of dancers in school uniforms who rippled through captivating choreography created by Damien Jalet. After an energetic and meticulous performance by the dancers, Yung Lean left the formation and spat a blue ice cream cone into the camera lens as the song faded out.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cStorm\u201d was nominated for four awards tonight, including Video of the Year, Best Long Form Video, Best Direction (Romain Gavras), and Best Choreography (Damien Jalet). \u201cStorm\u201d was among the stacked list of visuals from some of the biggest names in music for Video of the Year, including Ariana Grande (\u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d), Bruno Mars (\u201cI Just Might\u201d), Madonna (\u201cConfessions II \u2013 The Film\u201d), Sabrina Carpenter (\u201cTears\u201d), and Taylor Swift (\u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d).<\/p>\n \n\tDirector Gavras previously won an MTV Video Music Award in the Best Direction category for M.I.A.\u2019s \u201cBad Girls.\u201d Jalet is known for his hypnotic choreographic style, and has gain recognition in the music world for his work with Thom Yorke on his short film Anima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yung Lean and a large swath of dancers recreated the viral music video featuring Damien Jalet\u2019s mesmerizing choreography…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,364685,45291,58377,357038,364686],"class_list":["post-864469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gener8ion","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-mtv-vmas","tag-vmas-2026","tag-yung-lean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864469","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=864469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}