Taylor Swift took a second to recollect the tragedy of the 9/11 terrorist assaults when she accepted her first award through the telecast on the 2024 MTV VMAs.
Taking the stage to just accept her finest collaboration Moon Individual with “Fortnight” collaborator Put up Malone, Swift started by reflecting on the twenty third anniversary of the 2001 terrorist assault on New York’s World Commerce Middle.
“Waking up this morning in New York on September 11, I’ve simply been enthusiastic about what occurred 23 years in the past — everybody who misplaced a cherished one and everybody that we misplaced,” Swift mentioned. “And that’s the most necessary factor about at the moment. And all the things that occurs tonight falls behind that.”
Swift, who made headlines and prompted greater than 300,000 visits to the vote.gov web site together with her Kamala Harris endorsement after Tuesday evening’s presidential debate, then went on to thank Put up Malone.
The 2024 MTV VMAs, airing dwell from Lengthy Island’s UBS Enviornment, have been initially set to air on Sept. 10 earlier than they have been pushed again by a day in order to not battle with the controversy between Harris and Donald Trump.
When the high-profile music awards present was rescheduled, MTV acknowledged that the occasion can be happening on the twenty third anniversary of 9/11.
“In observance of the twenty third anniversary of 9/11, MTV will once more help the nonprofit 9/11 Day, which organizes the September 11 Nationwide Day of Service and Remembrance and Tuesday’s Kids, which serves the households of 9/11,” the community mentioned in an announcement final month.
Taylor Swift leads the 2024 VMA nominations with 12 nods, adopted by Put up Malone with 11, Eminem with eight and Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, SZA and Sabrina Carpenter with seven every.
