By Taylor Swift won her third consecutive creative person of the year prize at the yankee Music Awards, however she uncomprehensible the show for an honest reason: She aforementioned she’s busy re-recording her early music once her catalogue was sold-out.
In a video that ventilated throughout the awards show, the pop star aforementioned, “The reason I’m not there tonight is I’m truly re-recording all of my previous music within the studio wherever we have a tendency to originally recorded it. thus it’s been wonderful. and that i can’t watch for you to listen to it.”
Last year, music manager Scooter Braun — UN agency manages Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande — declared that his Ithaca Holdings company had nonheritable huge Machine Label cluster, the house to Swift’s initial six albums. This month, Braun aforementioned he has sold-out the master rights to Swift’s initial six albums to AN investment firm. Swift acknowledged the sale on social media and aforementioned she wouldn’t work with the new consumers as a result of Braun was still concerned.
Instead, she headed back to the studio.
Taylor Swift beat out Justin Bieber, Post Edmond Malone and Roddy Ricch to win the highest award. She additionally won favorite music video and favorite pop/rock feminine creative person, winning 3 honors and fastening Bieber, Dan + equipage and therefore the Weeknd for many wins.
The Weeknd lost creative person of the year, however he still taken off his all-star week as an enormous winner: Days before he’s expected to land multiple Grammy nominations, he won favorite soul/R&B male creative person, favorite soul/R&B album for “After Hours” and favorite soul/R&B song for “Heartless”, 2 days before the 2021 Grammy nominations square measure declared.
“The last time I received this award it absolutely was given to Maine by the late, nice blue blood,” he aforementioned once winning favorite soul/R&B album. “And, you know, he’s the explanation i purchase to perpetually challenge the genre of R&B and yea, I’d prefer to dedicate this to him.”
The Weeknd didn’t break character throughout the three-hour show along with his gauze-wrapped face, that matched the vibration of his recent album and music videos wherever he seems bloody and contusioned. He accepted his awards and performed along with his face wrapped in gauze.
Kenny G joined the Weeknd for his performance, taking part in the sax in downtown la because the Weeknd walked across a bridge singing “In Your Eyes”. He finished the performance singing “Save Your Tears”.
The Weeknd was one among many artists UN agency appeared live at the Microsoft Theater in la for the fan-voted awards show. Others recently taped their performances due to the coronavirus pandemic, although host Taraji P. Henson — UN agency appeared live from the venue — aforementioned the few audience members sitting within the mezzanine practiced social distancing, wore masks and were tested for the virus.
Henson joked that listing celebrities were within the audience, together with Beyoncé, although cardboard cut-out of the singer, Jay-Z and different stars appeared in seats.
But an honest variety of chart-toppers were within the building. Breakthrough singer-rapper Doja Cat performed and won new creative person of the year and favorite soul/R&B feminine creative person. Grammy-winning country couple Dan + equipage fantastically performed “I ought to in all probability attend Bed” and won favorite country couple or cluster, collaboration of the year and favorite country song for “10,000 Hours,” the latter 2 shared with Bieber. And Megan Thee entire — won favorite rap/hip-hop songs for “WAP” with Cardi B — performed “Body” from her recently discharged debut album “Good News”.
Justin Bieber and Ted Shawn Mendes taken off the AMAs with a pre-taped performance of their new duet “Monster”, marking the primary time they performed the song along. It began with a stripped Bieber singing his recent hit “Lonely”, with songwriter-producer Benny whiten on piano, and “Holy”, wherever background dancers sporting masks joined him.
Mendes, strumming his stringed instrument, then appeared for “Monster”, that featured the twentysomethings singing lyrics regarding fame and growing up as celebrities UN agency attracted large public attention. Mendes later American ginseng his song “Wonder” throughout the show, that ventilated on ABCs.
Katy Perry, in her initial performance since birth to her initial kid, gave a powerful performance of the emotional and hopeful song “Only Love”, that featured a surprise guest look from Darius Rucker, UN agency American ginseng and compete stringed instrument. With flaming red lights obvious behind her, Billie Eilish American ginseng her new song “Therefore I Am”, as her brother-songwriter-producer Finneas backed her on stringed instrument. Jennifer Lopez and Maluma teamed up to perform their new songs “Pa’ Ti” and “Lonely” from the film Marry Maine, that each of them star in, whereas Dua Lipa — UN agency won favorite pop/rock song — floated within the air throughout her performance of “Levitating”.
24kGoldn and Iann Dior — UN agency presently have the country’s No. one song with the smash “Mood”, additionally performed. The multi-genre track is that the rare song that has reached No. one on each the rap and rock charts.
Other performers enclosed BTS, Lewis Capaldi, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Baby, Bell Biv DeVoe and Nelly, UN agency performed hits from his diamond-certified debut album “Country Grammar”, that celebrates its twentieth day this year.
This year the AMAs, which generally awards one Latin honor, launched a lot of classes within the genre. Becky G — UN agency burst on the music scene in 2014 with the pop hit “Shower” however has recently had success singing in Spanish and launching hits on the Latin charts — won favorite Latin feminine creative person.
She used her speech to honor migrant families.
“I with pride wave each flags, Mexican and yankee. And like several, several youngsters and grandchildren of immigrants, notwithstanding wherever they’re from, we’ve learned from those before USA what sacrifice and toil sounds like,” she said. “And I dedicate this award to any or all of our migrant employees during this pandemic; the scholars and migrant families. It’s due to my family, my abuelitos, that I stand here these days.”
Nominees for the AMAs were supported streaming, album and digital sales, radio airplay and group action, and replicate the fundamental quantity of Sep twenty seven, 2019, through Sep twenty four, 2020.
