Katy Perry was the visitor of honor on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the place she carried out a 10-song medley and accepted the Video Vanguard trophy on stage at Long Island’s UBS Arena. Perry spared no hit, working via “Darkish Horse,” and “E.T.” whereas floating excessive above the stage suspended from wires. Doechii stopped by for a stay debut of Perry’s new single “I’m His, He’s Mine,” which samples Crystal Waters’ legendary home lower “Gypsy Women (La Da Dee La Da Da),” earlier than Perry sang crowd-pleasers “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream.” A row of dancers decked out in silver sci-fi getups contorted behind her.
Perry pivoted to her breakout single “I Kissed a Lady,” after which donned a pair of inflatable metallic butterfly wings for her energy ballad “Firework.” She wrapped issues up with “Lifetimes,” the second single from her upcoming album 143. Watch all of it occur under.
Perry’s companion Orlando Bloom launched the pop star and offered her along with her Video Vanguard Moon Particular person. Perry opened her acceptance speech by noting: “I did this all on the primary day of my interval,” and thanking MTV for “believing in my weirdness” all through the years. She additionally acknowledged the help of the LGBT neighborhood and shouted out Bloom and their daughter, Daisy.
Perry joins a pantheon of Video Vanguard winners that features final 12 months’s honoree, Shakira, Niki Minaj, Beyoncé, Madonna, Rihanna, Missy Elliott, Britney Spears, and extra.
Katy Perry made her MTV VMAs debut again in 2009, performing “We Will Rock You” alongside Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. She earned her first three Moon Particular person trophies in 2011—for her mega-hit “Firework” and her Kanye West collaboration “E.T.” Previous to this night, Perry’s final look on the VMAs occurred in 2017, when acted as grasp of ceremonies and performed “Swish Swish” with Nicki Minaj.
Perry returned to the pop sphere in July with “Woman’s World,” concurrently asserting her subsequent studio album, 143, which is out September 20. She adopted it with the LP’s second single, “Lifetimes.” 143 will mark Perry’s first studio album since she launched Smile in 2020.
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