Every few years, Taylor Swift will decide to make the MTV VMAs all about her. At this point, she’s absolutely one of the biggest things in music, so I get it and I don’t even mind it. I prefer Taylor turning the VMAs into The Taylor Show rather than seeing her try to pretend that everything isn’t all about her. Taylor walked the red carpet early in this Versace ensemble, which… is okay, I guess. Taylor’s style theme for Lover is “pantslessness.” She’s going to wear booty shorts for the next two months. Taylor Momsen says hi.
Taylor opened the VMAs, which CB hated in retrospect – CB thinks that Queen Latifah and Naughty By Nature’s performance should have been the opener (rather than the closer). I think Taylor pulls rank with MTV – she wants to open the show so she can relax and sit in the audience for the rest of the show. Taylor started with “You Need to Calm Down,” which was awful, and then she transitioned to “Lover,” which I actually liked a lot. Her costume = tragedy.
Taylor also won three VMAs over the course of the evening – Video of the Year (for YNTCD), Video for Good and Visual Effects. Taylor wants us to know that her NEW squad is full of LGBTQ peeps. She also used her platform to promote the Equality Act, so good for her.
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I like that she stepped aside and let todrick speak for the video for good award.
Was about to say exactly the same thing!
She’s worn this before? Am I have Swift Deja Vu? Is this a thing in my life now? I swear I have seen these pics before
Really close to what she wore to the Teen choice awards a few weeks ago!
These shows are so rigged but whatever.
I read an article yesterday as to why MTV even hosts this show considering they don’t play music videos anymore.
Do you have a link to this article or the name of the website where you read it?
I think sometimes links don’t get through the mods, but it was on NBC News titled “Why Should MTV host the VMAs when it doesn’t even show music videos anymore?” Which was… totally on point, really.
Was TS trying to emulate Madonna’s Jean Paul Gaultier corset?
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I actually love that blazer and the fit. Mind you I wish she had pants on by the patten really pops and looks fantastic. I wish I was tall enough to pull off that pattern
@scal, As weird as it may seem, Versace can be very aging. I love the jacket too but think it would look better (with pants or skirt) on Jane Fonda. This jacket has a very 90s cut and IMHO she looks like she went to to a very high end vintage store and bought a Versace jacket. Wearing vintage is fine for lunch or dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel or Ritz-Carlton Naples but I do not think it works for the VMAs. Taylor looks like she borrowed her favorite aunt’s jacket. If I were Taylor I would wear all the “young stuff” as long as I could.
I absolutely hated a similar-looking Versace she wore a few weeks ago with her awful hair but for some reason, I really like this particular ensemble on her and I don’t mind the thigh-high boots in lieu of pants. Her makeup looked really good too. Overall, not bad for Swifty.
I have the same reaction. I think this jacket has a much better fit. It lays really clean and flat on the front, so the pattern can be the focus. I like this a lot more than the other version. I think these colors are better, too.
Taylor isn’t cool enough to actually pull an outfit like this off. On Zendaya, it’s a work of art, it’s fashion. On Taylor, it’s a corny costume.
Totally get what you’re saying but it’s not fair comparing anyone to Zendaya. Girl could wear a plastic trash bag and it would be amazing.
If she’s the biggest thing in music, wouldn’t MTV WANT her to be the opener, to get people to tune in right away?
That whole beginning looks like she borrowed everything from Katy Perry, which is not a compliment. But at least she’s trying to promote good things now I guess.
Taylor is definitely at her best when she is singing a ballad with her guitar. She seems way more authentic then. Really liked the second performance.
Agreed. What made her famous in the first place was her relatability, which was at an all time low during the reputation-era. Some of her new pop songs really sacrifice lyrics for production and it doesn’t work for her.
Agree. Her pop songs are mixed bag for me, except for 1989. The best song on this album to me is Soon You’ll Get Better with the dixie chicks. That song wrecks me.
Is it me or did she not sing live?
I think she usually sings the verses live and then has some help from either playback, autotune or backup singers in the chorus. Because usually there is a shift when she goes from singing the verses, where she sounds awful, to the chorus, where she sounds much better, and that’s the only explanation I can think of.
I think she just used backing vocals for the chorus of both songs
She sounded horrible during YNTCD, but visually was nice. And someone’s said before, she did good with Lover. She’s really at her best doing the more stripped down performances.
This outfit is a thousand times better than those sequined shorts she wore last week. She looks great in this.
Yep, I think it’s a great ensemble. It’s much more flattering than her other, recent offerings, and the pattern of the blazer is really fun and well-balanced. Solid proportions with the boots, as well.
So glad she and Katy Perry are friends again, bc Taylor is clearly influenced… I feel like I already saw this starburst Skittle candy set and bright costumes with Katy.
I cringed a lot during the first song, but I loved her performance of lover.
Maybe there were technical issues too? In the beginning the sound was … off?
Taylor needs to stop trying to have some kind of Britney-dance show, she’s way to awkward for that.
And she has too many teeth. Like Miley.
That’s all I have. Lol
I wish Taylor would stop trying to be this big, producer pop singer and focus on her strength: emotional, lyrically driven songs. This image doesn’t feel like her.
Taylor, if you’re reading this, please do the long curls again. I’m tired of the bangs.
Taylor is setting herself up for a fall. You know an actor’s career is on the descent when they start getting Oscar nominations for shitty movies. Opening the VMAs with a shitty song and lazy performance is much the same.
I saw Louis Virtel’s tweet about Taylor’s outfit being the return of dressing like Hilary Banks and I spit my water out- it’s so accurate…