MTV VMAS: 27 Of The Awards Show’s Wildest Moments of All Time

The Singer, Who Was nominated for Best New Artist for Her “BORDERLINE” Video, Hit The Stage in a Wedding Dress and Garters, Along with a Belt Featuring a Buckle that Read “BOY”. She Began Her Performance Atop A Giant Three-Tirered Wedding Cake Before Making Her Way Down The Floor, WHERE SHE ENDED THE SONG WRITHING ON THE FLOOR. “I Think We All Know She Had A FEW DRINKS, BECAUSE She HAD TO GET UP The NERVE TO CRAWL AROUND LIKE She DID,” LES GARLAND, FORMER Executive Vp Programming at MTV, Told Billboard in 2014. “She stole the show.”

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Paul Reubens, Best Known for His Pee-Wee Herman Character, Was Arrested in 1991 in An Adult Movie Theater in Florida for Indecent Exposure. Many thorough his career was over, especialy given he was best known for a character who was currently the Star of a kids show. After the News Broke, CBS Pulled The Remaining Reruns of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse from it schedule, and toys “R” US Removed All Pee-Wee Toys from Its Shelves. Despite Public Support from Celebrity Pals Including Cyndi Lauper and Joan Rivers, Reubens Laid Laid Laid Low Until That Year’s VMAS, WHERE HE WAS METHTH WITH THUNDEROUS “Heard any good jokes Lately?”

Prince took the stage to perform “gett off” in pantts that were designed to seemingly show off his butt cheeks. However, Years Later, Stacia Lang, Who Served As Prince’s Costume Designer from 1990-93, Told Cnn that It Was More of An Illusion than Viewers Might Have Thought. Lang said that she used a thin, Net-like fabric Known as Marquisette to make it appetar like he was exposing his derrière. “There Was a beautyify, White, Pure, Really Heavy French Lace that We Took Right Away to the Dyers and Had that Dyed Bright Citron Yellow,“ She Said. “And Also (The Dyer) Had to Dye Up Several Fabrics that would Create the Illusion that his rear end was shown.”

THEN-NEWLYWEDS Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley Were Facing Skepticism About the Authenticity of Their Margarige. They have operated the show with their first public appearance as a coupple. “I’M VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE,” JACKSON SAID. “And just Think, Nobody Thought this would Last,“ He Added, Noding his Head Toward Presley, Before Taking Off His Sunglasses and Kissing Her Onstage.

“HE KNEW I DIDN’T LOVE THAT,” Presley Told Oprah Winfrey in 2010, The Year After Jackson Died. “I would be there, uncomfortable. And his HIS hand was blue after we got off that stage.… I had Squeezed It So Hard.… But as his wife, and needed to do so.”

The Band Reunned with David Lee Roth for the First Time In Over A Decade, to Present the Award for Best Male Video. However, Roth Kept Interruping The Group and Going on Tangents.

IT WAS Their FIRST TIME TOGETCHER ONIA SINCE THEIR 1984 TOUR WRAPPED. Van Halen Had Recently Split With Singer Sammy Hagar, and Roth Had Been Brough Brough Back to Record Some Songs for A Compilation Album, Accounting To Rolling StoneLeading Many Fans to Think That and AnnunCement of A Reunion Tour Was ImMinent.

“We have to make and Announcement,” Roth Said, in his first interruption. “We have to address a subject here. This is the first time we’ve actually stood on the onstage together in over a decade.”

He then interrupted Again, Cutting Off Bassist Michael Anthony: “Have You Noticed How Things Have Changed A Lot Since the Last Time We Were Up Here?” HE Asked The Crowd. “It is used to be, ‘I Want My Mtv!’ And now is like, ‘gimme your fucking mtv or i’ll bolw your head off, man.’ ” Guitarist eddie van halen then tonok roth and gently but abirmly pushed him aside, thoo. Gestures Off to the Side. Accounting to Rolling StoneRoth Stood Beck As He Acceptted the Award for “Were IT’s at” and Continued to Make Distracting Movements.

“I felt his onstage antics Were Embarrassing and Disrespectful to Beck,“ Eddie Later SAID. “Backstage, he spit in my face. We get shuffled off to the First Mob Press Conference and Everyone Was Yeling and Screaming Questions and Dave Wasn’t Answering Any. HERE’S WHAT IS HAPPENING BEST OF VOLUME ONE. Warner Bros. would like US to do two Videos and that is it. If you think we’re going on tote in the summer, Forget It. We’re not going to go out there and take your money. If we make do a tour with roth in the Future we’ll have to write and record a new album. Also, i’m getting a new hip on dec. 6, so that’s going to throw a wrench in the works. ”

At 1997 VMAS, Fiona Apple Decides to Skip All of the “Durya Her Acceptance Speech for Best New Artist and Insthead Used Her Time at The Podium to Deliver A POGNANT MESSAGE. “I didn’t prepare a speech and i’m Sorry, but i’m glad that i didn’t because i’m not gonna do this like everybody’s else does it,“ The Singer Said. “What I Wanna Say is… This World Is Bullshit. You Shouldn’t Model Your Life About What You Think We Think Is Cool and What We’re Wearing and What Weel.”

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While Presenting the Award for Best Hip-Hop Video in 1999, Diana Rose Got Up-Close and A Little Too Personal with Lil ‘kim, Who Came to the Show Wearing A Purple Jump. with a pasty). Insthead of Greeting the Raper with a Customary Hug or Handshake, Ross Reached Over and Gave Her Co-Presenter’s Exposed Breast A Jiggle.

A MISCOMMUNICATION AT 2000 VMAS LED TO MICHAHAEL JACKSON DELIVERING A HEARTFELT ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR AADNT DIDN’T exist. That year, mtv planned to allocate some show time to Celebrate the King of Pop’s Birthday. But WHEN BRITNYY SPEARS INTRUDUCED JACKSON ONTASTAGE as Someone She Considers to Be the “Artist of the Millennium,” Jackson Mistakenlyly Thought he was was receiving an office.

In 2000, Rage Against the Machine Bassist Tim Commerford Climbed Atop A 15-Foot-Tall Set Piece Onstage in Protest After Limp Bizkit Won the Moonman for Best Rock Video.

Commerford Refused to Come Down and Was Subsequently Arrested and Spen the Night in Jail.

“My Reasons Were My Personal Reasons,” Commerford Later Sayid of Wy Hay. “Totally Personal Politics.”

The Singer Performed “I’M A SLAVE 4 U” WHILE HOLDING An albino Python Draped Over Her Shoulders in 2001. in 2016, She Told E! News of the iconic Moment: “It’s Insane! WHY DID I DO THAT?” Asked if she’s every do it is again, she replied: “Hell, no! It’s so dumb. No! Never!”

However, in 2023, She Posted About the Performance on Instagram that It Was One of Her Favorites of All Time and Noted She Wrote About It in Her Memoir, The woman in me: “One of My Favorite Performances Was with An Albino Python … I Still Remember How Scared and Felt WHEN I WAS HANDED THIS SNAKE AND TOOK THE STAGE !!!”

The King of Pop Took The Stage with ‘n Sync to show off his signature moves in 2001 at the end of their performance of “pop.”

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Macy Gray Wanted Everyone to Know Exactly WHEN HER Second Album, The id, would be released. In a Next-Level Act of Self-Promotion, She Wore a Gown to the 2001 VMAS Bearing the Following Message in All Caps on the Front: “My New Album Drops Sept. 18, 2001.” While Onstage, She Told The Audence: “Music and Videos Are All Good, But I Want Everyone to Take A Moment and Just Focus on My Dress.” She showed off the front and then turned around to reveal Another Message, in all caps – “Buy It!” – On Her Derrike.

Designer Betsey Johnson Applauded The Move Stunt.

Andy Dick Took The Stage As “Daphne Aguilera,” the “Cousin” of Christina Aguilera, for a Skit.

HE TOOK The STAGE TO Perform A Song in a Hot Pink Outfit with Several Backup Dankers. Toward the End, He Became Annoyed and “Slapped” a Backup Daner That Got in His Way. He then went out of the audience, walked over the top of the seats and “attacked” Xtina Herself, Who Saw the Humor in the Whole Bit.

HE ORIGINATED The CHARACER ON HIS MTV Series The andy Dick Show.

In 2001, Moby Called Eminem ”a Misogynist, a homophobe, a racist and anth-semite.” In Respons, Eminem Called Moby A “36-YEAR-OLD BALD-HEADED F*G” IN HIS HIT SONG “WITHOOUT ME.” At 2002 vmas, Triumph the insult comic dog was making jokes with a game MOBY, WHEN The Puppet (Robert Smigel) referenited the feud and then craged to talk to eminem. WHEN EMINEM LATER TOOK The STAGE TO ACCEPT an Award, Presiented by Christina Aguilera, He Was Booed After He Called Moby a “Little” Girl and Said Hund Hit A MAN WI. For his part, Triumph Has been quoted as salting of the incident: “I Only Wish Eminem Could Relax and Enjoy All He Has: His Unique Talent And His Nutag. Lighten Up… I MEAN, My MOM WAS A Bitch Too, But I DON’T GO Writing Songs About It. ”

Before Madonna Made Headlines for Laying One on Drake Dringing Her Surprise Guest Set at the 2015 Coachella Festival, The Singer Turned Heads WHENSED SHE KISSED BOTHITNY SPEARS Performance of “Like A Virgin” and “Hollywood” at the 2003 Awards Show. Spears and Aguilera Wore Wedding Gowns and Desceded Down from A Giant Multi-Tired Cake Set Piece, in a nod to Madonna’s 1984 and Top hat. After some dance moves, Madonna then locked lips with first spears and then aguilera.

Fat Joe Took The Stage at 2005 VMAS to Present An Award, But Not Before Saying: “I’D LIKE Tell The People at Home I Feel Sofe Tonight with All The Ti-Pelice Protection, CourTesy. by 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. Later in the Show, After G-Unit Performed, 50 Called Out Fat Joe in A Bleep-Field Moment: “Fat Joe Is Pussy, Man. Pussy Boy. Fuck Boy.”

In his 2022 memoir, Fat joe wrote about the incident: “Halfway Through the Show, and Went Out on the Stage to Give Missy ElLIOTT. 50 Cent Out of His Seat and Started Walking The House. To the Floor and Started Slapping FIves with Jay-Z and Diddy. ” THEN 50 CENT CAME OUT ONTAGE JUST BEFORE FAT JOE WAS SCHEDULED TO Perform. “I was saying to myself, ok, we’re about to Fight. We’re about to get it on Right Here at the vmas,”Joe Wrote.“ WHEN The SHOW CAME BACK ON – This is Live TV, Mind You – He Went Back to His Seat. The G-Unit Started Yeling at Me While i’m Reading Off The Teleprompter. The Terror Squad, Offstage in the Wings, Started Barking Back. That’s kind of who i dropped my jab: ‘I Feel Safe With All The Police Protection CourThesy of G-Unit.’ ” FAT JOE ALSO SAID COST HIM A $ 20 Million Endorsement Deal For the NEWODORSEMENT DESEL. Deals.

For his part, 50 Cent Said Last Year That HE REGRETS SPEENDING TIME Feuding with Fat Joe. He attributed their Beef due to their similear personalites. “WHEN WE’RE ATDS, WE ARE ATDDS, AND WE DID THAT FOR A Long Time,“ HE SAID. “Because of his loyalty to irv Gotti and ja rule, joe wasn’t happy with things that were make me happy. It was easy for me to say, ‘f – you,’ because. He Added: “Now Hee Like My Friend, and I DON’T CARE THAT HAS RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE I DON’T. HE’S ALWAYS HAD TOSE RELATIONSIPS.” They have Even Hit the Stage Together in Recent Years (See Below).

The Pop Singer Hit the Stage Again in 2007 to Perform “Gimme More” But Drew Concern from the Public and Critics Who Remarked that She Semed Out of It For the Performance. She later revealed in her memoir, The Woman in Me, that she’d had an awkward Run-in with ex-boyfriend justin timberlake ahead of her performance. “IT HAD BEEN A WHILE SINCE I’D SEEN HIM,“ She Wrote. “Everything was going great in his world. HE was at the top of his game in every way, and he had a loto of swagger. I was having a panic attac. Bad. ”

She Continued: “There Was A Problem with My Costume and with My Hair Extensions. I Hadn’t Slept the Night Before. I was Dizzy. IT was than was than yo. WAS ACTING LIKE MY NOTHING SIX-PACK ABS WAS OFFENSIVE, I COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS GOING to HAVE TO GO OUT-OUTING The WAY I FELT. YES, Granted-Was From My Best at Other Times.

A Video of Her Rehearsal, WHICH WENT MUCH BETTER THAN LIVE Performance, Was Released Later.

Perhaps the most buzzed-adaute of moment of all, Kanye West Rusned the Stage in the Middle of Taylor Swift’s Acceptance Speech Soon After The Pop Star was Claming that her musical video Video for “You BELONG WITH ME” wasn’t worthyy of the prize, the rapper told her, “yo, taylor – i’m Really hapy for you. Time. ” Beyoncé Later Broght Swift Back to the Stage to Properly Present Her Speech WHEN She Won the Night’s Biggest Honor, Video of the Year. “I Remember Being 17-YEARS-OLD UP for My FIRST MTV Award with Destiny’s Child, and It Was One of the most Exciting Moments in My Life,“ She Told The Audionce. “SO, I’D LIKE FOR Taylor to Come Out and Have Her Moment.”

In 2015, Swift Presiented the Video Vanguard Award to West, Who Shee Jokyingly Referred to The Incident Who’s Addressing The Night’s Other Winners: “I’m Really Happy For You, and IMA LET YOU The Greatest Careers of All Time. ”

Lady Gaga Shocked Viewers – and Angered Animal Rights Groups – WHEN She DONNED A DRAW Made of Raw Meat at the 2010 Video Music Awards. She said the Dress was meant as a statement of against the US Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’T Tell” Policy Regarding People Whontified As lgbtq Serving in the Armed Forces.

“I was speaking with my artistic friends about if we were wanted to make any statements while while we have were at the mtv Video Music Awards, and We Did Want to Make A Statement Vogue in 2021. “Because at the Time, They Were Trying To Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ But We Decided To The MEAT Dress Because and Thought To Myself, IF You WIREES Matter How You Identify? ”

She Aded: “It Smelled Like Meat. It Was Thrilling to Wear. There’s [the dress]but the corset was sewn to the meat. So this is actualally a garment. They Didn’t Just Drape Meat Over Me and Cross Their Fingers. ”

The Dress Was Preserved As a Form of Jerky and Is Currently on Display at the Haus of Gaga Museum Inside the Park Mgm Casino in Las Vegas.

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A year laster, Lady gaga Made Headlines Again at the Vmas. Thought she was “absent” from the 2011 Awards Show, Her Alter-Ego, Jo Calderone, Made An Apperance. The Pop Star – Donning A Black Blazer, Sideburns and A Black Wig – Stayed in Character for the Entire Ceremony, Even While Performing Her Single “You And I.”

Beyoncé performed her sungle “Love on Top” at the 2011 Awards Show Dressed in a Modest Blazer and Black Slacs. At the end of her set, she unbuttoned her jacket and exposed her growing Baby Bump, Publicly Annuncing Her Pregnancy and Garnering Roushing Applause from the Audence (and Husbande Jay-Jay. Shew Give Birth to Their First Daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, On Jan. 7, 2012.

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The “wrecking Ball” Singer Joeded Robin Thicke Onstage for a Racy Performance of Her Song “We Can” and His Hit “Blurred Lines a foam finger.

Following the Show, The FCC Was Flooded with Complaints from Outragged Viewers Who Deemed The Performance “Crude” and “Shameful.”

Thicke Later SAID: “We Knew What We Were Getting Ourselves Into. We’re Entertainers, and The Vmas is the Perfect Place for a Little Shock and Awe. Yeah, Weh In Knew Wew. Like, ‘OK, if You Touch Me With Your Foam Finger All Over My Crotch, Obvioously A FEW PEOPLE Are Going to Have Something to Say About This.’ But that was the Whole Point.

For Her Part, Cyrus Said She Wanted to Make History With The Performance. “I don’t pay at the negative,“ Cyrus said. “Madonna’s Done It, Britney’s Done It. Every Vma Performance, Anyone That Performs, That’s What You’re Looking For – You’re Wanting To Make History Make History Right Now. ” of the People Who Continued Talking About the Performance in the Days That Followed, She Said: “They’re Overthinking It Didn’t Even Think About It, ‘Cause that’s Just Me. ”

WHEN CYRUS WON Video of the Year in 2014 for “Wrecking Ball,” she let a once-homeless man Accept the award of her behalf in an effort to raise awareness about youth homelessness. Jesse Helt, THEN 22, ACCEPTED THE HONOR AND SPOKE About His Own Experience As A Teary-Eyed Cyrus Watched.

“Thank y’all, my name is jese and i Accept the this Award on Behalf of the 1.6 Million Runaways and Homeless Youth in the United States Who Are Starning, Lost and Scared for Their Lives Right. “I Know this Because i am one of these people. I’ve survied in Shelters All Over.… Thought I May Have Been Invisible to You In the Streets, I HAVE A LOT OF THE SAME DREAMS

Cyrus Boughht the Suit He Wore to the Show and Paid for His Hotel Room.

IT WAS LATER REVELED THAT HAD A Warrant Out for his arrest in his home State of Oregon for “Criminal Mischief” and “Attempted Burglary” in 2010. HE WAS SENTENCED TO SIX MONHS IN JAIL AFTER TURNING HIMSELF IN. Two Years Later, He Put the Trophy She Let Him Keep Up for Sale, Reportedly To Pay for Costs Associated with his Unborn Baby.

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Kanye West Acceptted His Vadeo Vanguard Honor by First Standing Onstage for Roughly Two Minutes Listening to the Applause, Without Saying Anything. THEN, IN A LEGther and Rambling Speech, He Questioned the Meaning Of Awards Little Something ” to Smoke Before Coming Out Onstage. He Ended His Speech by Saying: “I’M Confident. I Believe in MySelf. We The Millennials, Bro. This Is A New Mentality. We Nota Control Our Kids with Brands. We’re Going to Teach Our Kids that Can Be Something, That Can Belve in Themselves Don’tter Thought, Because It’s Not About Me. Decides in 2020, to Run for President. ” He did Run, in Fact, and Conceded The Day After the Election, whoh Joe Biden Won. In 2022, he AnnounCed that he was running again, in the 2024 election, but his Campaign Eventualally Petered Out.

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The Two Artists Have A History of Bickering with One Another. This Particular Dispute Started WHEN Nicki Minaj’s “anaconda” wasn’t nominated for Video of the year in a Category that Did Include of Nominees Like Taylor Swift and Miley Cyr. Year. Minaj Tweeted Her Frustration Over the Snub: “WHEN The ‘Other’ Girls Drop A Video That Breaks Records and Impacts Culture this Get that Nomination” and “If Your Ver Ver Video Brates Way, Wie. nominated for vid of the year. ” For Her Part, Swift Replied: “@nickiminaj I’ve Done Nothing But Love & Support You. It’s Unlike You To Pit Women Against Each Other. Maybe One of The Men Took Your Slot.”

Cyrus, Meanwhile, Was Asked About Minaj in An Interview with The New York Times. “You know what i always Say? Not that this is jealousy, But Jealousy toes the OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU WANT IT to – THAT’S A Yoga Mantra,“ She Replied. “People Forget that Choices that this and How they Treat People in Life Affect You in a Really Big Way. If You DO TNTS WITH An Open Heart And You Come at Things with You. But I don’t respect your statement because of the angr that came with it. You Made It About You.

She Continued: “What I Read Sounded Very Nicki Minaj, Who, If You Know Nick Minaj is Not Too Kind. It’s Not Very Polite. I Think There’s A Way You Speak To. Start Star Against Pop Star War. It. ”

Cut to the vmas just a few days laster. Minaj Won for Best Hip-Hop Video and Ten Turned to Cyrus and SAID: “Back to this bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the Press. Miley, what’s good?” Cyrus Responded: “Hey, We’re All In this Industry. We All Do Interviews, and We Know How How Manipulate Shit. Nicki, Congratu-Fucking-Lations.”

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That year’s host generated more headlines out of the vmas WHEN she suffered a Wardrobe Malfunction Backstage. She appeared on Camera Beyind a Black Curtain Doing Her Hosting Duties. WHEN Someone Went to Walk by Her, The Curtain Fell And Showed Off Her Nude Breast. It Quickly Cut Away and Cyrus Could Be Heard Saying: “What’s Happening? Oh, Sorry. My Tit’s Out?” The Parents Television Council Released A Statement in Respense: “Are we surprised that miley cyrus exposed herself to millions surprised as we’ll be if the Sun rises in the East Tomorrow Morning. ” The FCC Also Received Some Complaints from UPSET Viewers. In 2022, Cyrus Suffired Yet Another Wardrobe Malfunction While Performing on Her NBC Special Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party.

He May have won over Romantics with his speech but not his intended target. Drake Presiented Rihanna – WHOM HE’D PREVIOUSLY DATED – with the Video Vanguard Award in 2016, Starting Out by Talking About How They Met Before Either Had Achieved Their. He Ended His Remarks by Declaring: “She’s Someone i’ve Been in Love With Since I Was 22 Years Old. She’s One of My Best Friends in the World. All My Adult Life, Ie. me. She’s A Living, Breating Legend in Our Industry. ” .

In 2018, she told Vogue that the 2016 VMAS MOMENT MADE Her “Uncomfortable.” “The vmas is such a fan -focused Awards Show, SO HAVING THAT ENERGY AROUND ME, AND KNOWING The people who had the award, Made It Feel Like A Big Deal,”. “Waiting through that speech was probably the most uncomfortable part. I don’t like too many compliments. I don’e like to be put on blast.” She Also Said Ten: “We don’h have a friendship now, but we’re not enemies either. It is what it is.” .

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