Every Viral Moment and Must-See Performance

Going into the night Taylor Swift led the nominations with 12 total, followed by Post Malone with 11, Eminem with 8, and Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, Sabrina Carpenter and SZA behind them with 7 apiece.

The night is expected to be packed with performances, with a lineup featuring Anitta (ft Fat Joe, DJ Khaled + Tiago PZK), Benson Boone, Camila Cabello, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Eminem, GloRilla, Halsey, KAROL G, Lenny Kravitz, LISA, LL COOL J, Quavo, Rauw Alejandro, Sabrina Carpenter and Shawn Mendes.

Katy Perry is also receiving the Video Vanguard Award, as will also give what MTV promises to be a “career-spanning medley of her biggest chart-toppers.”

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The excitement started on the red carpet, where Chappell Roan made waves after she was seen cussing out a photographer while posing for pictures.

For some reason, someone in the crowd yelled, “Shut the f–k up!” and something about Roan turning around, catching her attention. She responded by yelling, “You shut the f–k up!” right back, before later explaining what happened to Entertainment Tonight.

“This is quite overwhelming and quite scary. I think for someone who gets a lot of anxiety around people yelling at you, the carpet is horrifying and I yelled back,” she explained. “You don’t get to yell at me like that!”

Slim Shady’s back again.

Eminem got the show started with a performance of Houdini, hitting the stage with a blonde wig while surrounded by lookalikes. He then ditched the hairpiece and swapped it for a trademark black hat, while breaking into Save Me, his track with Jelly Roll.

Fans were living … and so was Taylor Swift, who was seen dancing in the audience to his performance for the first time of the night.

In what will surely be the first of many for the singer, Taylor Swift won the first award of the night — picking up the Moon Person for Best Collab thanks to Fortnite, her collaboration with Post Malone.

She used her speech to remember the lives lost on 9/11, as the show was also held on the 23rd anniversary.

Swift then went on to call Malone everyone’s favorite person to collaborate with, calling him “so unfailingly polite” and joking it’s taken her forever to get him to “stop calling me ma’am.”