Posted August 25, 20195 yr The latest VMAs ceremony airs tomorrow and Ariana is up for lots of gongs - she's tied with Taylor Swift for the most nominations! So here's the place to discuss this year's nominations AND I'll be recapping her previous years at the VMAs in a series of posts. Time to cheer her on and relive memories from the past. Before diving into previous years, here's what she's nominated for in 2019: VIDEO OF THE YEAR 21 Savage feat. J. Cole – “a lot” Billie Eilish – “Bad Guy” Ariana Grande – “thank u, next” Jonas Brothers – “Sucker” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)” Taylor Swift – “You Need to Calm Down” ARTIST OF THE YEAR Cardi B Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Halsey Jonas Brothers Shawn Mendes SONG OF THE YEAR Drake – “In My Feelings” Ariana Grande – “thank u, next” Jonas Brothers – “Sucker” Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – “Shallow” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)” Taylor Swift – “You Need to Calm Down” BEST POP 5 Seconds of Summer – “Easier” Cardi B & Bruno Mars – “Please Me” Billie Eilish – “Bad Guy” Ariana Grande – “thank u, next” Jonas Brothers – “Sucker” Taylor Swift – “You Need to Calm Down” BEST HIP HOP 2 Chainz feat. Ariana Grande – “Rule the World” 21 Savage ft. J. Cole – “a lot” Cardi B – “Money” DJ Khaled feat. Nipsey Hussle & John Legend – “Higher” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)” Travis Scott feat. Drake – “SICKO MODE” BEST DIRECTION Billie Eilish – “Bad Guy” – Directed by Dave Meyers FKA twigs – “Cellophane” – Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang Ariana Grande – “thank u, next” Directed by Hannah Lux Davis Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)” – Directed by Calmatic LSD ftea. Labrinth, Sia, Diplo – “No New Friends” – Directed by Dano Cerny Taylor Swift – “You Need to Calm Down” – Directed by Drew Kirsch & Taylor Swift BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Billie Eilish – “when the party’s over” – Visual Effects by Ryan Ross, Andres Jaramillo FKA twigs – “Cellophane” – Visual Effects by Matt Chandler, Fabio Zaveti for Analog Ariana Grande – “God is a Woman” – Visual Effects by Fabrice Lagayette, Kristina Prilukova & Rebecca Rice for Mathematic DJ Khaled feat. SZA – “Just Us” – Visual Effects by Sergii Mashevskyi LSD ft. Labrinth, Sia, Diplo – “No New Friends” – Visual Effects by Ethan Chancer Taylor Swift feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco – “ME!” – Visual Effects by Loris Paillier & Lucas Salton for BUF VFX BEST EDITING Anderson .Paak feat. Kendrick Lamar – “Tints” – Editing by Elias Talbot Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)” – Editing by Calmatic Billie Eilish – “Bad Guy” – Editing by Billie Eilish Ariana Grande – “7 Rings” – Editing by Hannah Lux Davis & Taylor Walsh Solange – “Almeda” – Editing by Solange Knowles, Vinnie Hobbs, Jonathon Proctor Taylor Swift – “You Need to Calm Down” – Editing by Jarrett Fijal BEST ART DIRECTION BTS feat. Halsey – “Boy With Luv” – Art Direction by JinSil Park, BoNa Kim (MU:E) Ariana Grande – “7 Rings” – Art Direction by John Richoux Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)” – Art Direction by Itaru Dela Vegas Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – “Señorita” – Art Direction by Tatiana Van Sauter Taylor Swift – “You Need to Calm Down” – Art Direction by Brittany Porter Kanye West and Lil’ Pump feat. Adele Givens – “I Love It” – Art Direction by Tino Schaedler BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Anderson .Paak feat. Kendrick Lamar – “Tints” – Cinematography by Elias Talbot Billie Eilish – “hostage” – Cinematography by Pau Castejon Ariana Grande – “thank u, next” – Cinematography by Christopher Probst Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – “Señorita” – Cinematography by Scott Cunningham Solange – “Almeda” – Cinematography by Chayse Irvin, Ryan Marie Helfant, Justin Hamilton Taylor Swift feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco – “ME!” – Cinematography by Starr Whitesides
August 25, 20195 yr Author 2013 eduZuowMkx4 Ariana was not nominated for anything in 2013 but she performed parts of both 'The Way' and 'Baby I' from her debut album on the red carpet! She changed from the above floral dress to a sparkly purple number for the performance. The highlight of this for me is her acapella vocals during the introduction of the performance, stunning!
August 25, 20195 yr Author 2014 B_zRhVfoD3k This year Ariana was up for 4 awards! 'Problem' was nominated for 'Best Female Video', 'Best Pop Video', 'Best Collaboration' and 'Best Lyric Video'. The song ended up winning 'Best Pop Video' so that became Ariana's first ever VMA win! As for performances, Ariana took to the stage to sing 'Break Free', followed by Nicki Minaj performing 'Anaconda', then the two of them grouped together with Jessie J to sing 'Bang Bang'. Another vocal serve for Ari during 'Bang Bang'!
August 25, 20195 yr Author 2015 Ariana was rocking the above black and white ensemble this year! Living for the massive top knot. Sadly no performance or even win this year but she was nominated in the 'Best Collaboration' category TWICE for 'Bang Bang' and 'Love Me Harder'. The latter robbed tbh.
August 25, 20195 yr Author 2016 A42N4IygFcg Sadly another year of 0 wins for Ariana despite more nominations. These noms in question were 'Best Female Video', 'Best Pop Video', 'Best Editing' and 'Best Cinematography' for 'Into You' and 'Best Collaboration' for 'Let Me Love You'. 2016 swiftly saw a return for Ariana and Nicki on stage together as they performed smash hit 'Side to Side'! This wasn't a vintage year for Ari vocally, as she seemed pretty out of breath due to the exercise bikes gimmick from the video! But I did love how the performance was presented.
August 25, 20195 yr Author Let's lump the last two years together as there was no 2017 red carpet appearance! 2017 No red carpet appearance for the first time as mentioned above, plus no performance, then unfortunately no wins again. The most notable aspect of this year is that she was nominated for 'Artist of the Year' for the first time, plus 'Best Choreography' for 'Side to Side'. Maybe better luck for AOTY this year? 2018 sKm4YqadSGw Last year she took to the red carpet with then-fiancé Pete Davidson. She was back to winning this year thankfully! She scooped 'Best Pop' for 'no tears left to cry'. The song was also nominated for 'Video of the Year', 'Best Cinematography' and 'Best Visual Effects'. She also lost 'Artist of the Year'. This year was ALL about the performance though - she sang empowering anthem 'God is a woman, complete with a diverse female dance team and even her mum and Nonna making an appearance. What a triumph!
August 25, 20195 yr Author Hope you guys enjoyed that trip down memory lane *.* best of luck to Ari for tomorrow! Third time lucky for AOTY please. My rankings of her performances and looks: Looks 01. 2014 02. 2015 03. 2016 04. 2018 05. 2013 Not a fan of the 2013 red carpet look but everything else was fine I think! She looked so fierce in 2014. Performances 01. 2018 (God is a woman) 02. 2013 (Baby I/The Way) 03. 2016 (Side to Side) 04. 2014 (Break Free/Bang Bang) The 'God is a woman' performance is my #1 by miles! She's always been a fantastic vocalist but she's really come along so much as a performer.
August 26, 20195 yr Is she attending this tomorrow? I take it she’s flying straight out of Manchester now. Edit: just seen she’s in Paris on Tuesday. Edited August 26, 20195 yr by Jordan Lee
August 26, 20195 yr Author Yeah I remember seeing on Twitter that she wouldn't be attending due to touring commitments or something :( a shame when she's been such a regular attendee over the years - only missing 2017 as you can see above! I would've so been here for a '7 rings' performance. Hope it doesn't hinder her AOTY chances too much.
August 26, 20195 yr Author @1166016113140015105 Ugh the way these things work is so unfair! I won't be watching it (back to work, need to be sensible) but if any of you guys are watching then do feel free to let us know if she won anything!
August 27, 20195 yr Author Just seen that she won ARTIST OF THE YEAR omg I was not expecting that! G’won :wub: plus that 'song of the summer' award for ‘boyfriend’ as you said LewisGT (late addition of an award I guess, didn’t know that was a thing :kink:) and art direction for ‘7 rings’, yay! She was the joint most awarded person as Taylor and Billie Eilish won 3 too. Glad she was able to do so well without being there.
August 27, 20195 yr Artist Of the Year is the most deserved imo. It genuinely couldn't have gone to anyone else. So I'm SO happy she got that one.
August 27, 20195 yr Just seen that she won ARTIST OF THE YEAR omg I was not expecting that! G’won :wub: plus that 'song of the summer' award for ‘boyfriend’ as you said LewisGT (late addition of an award I guess, didn’t know that was a thing :kink:) and art direction for ‘7 rings’, yay! She was the joint most awarded person as Taylor and Billie Eilish won 3 too. Glad she was able to do so well without being there.This page is saying she won 6! Is this true?
August 27, 20195 yr Author Unfortunately not, apparently Ariana tweeted about 6 wins but then deleted it - I think that's where these pages have got this false info from :lol: off the top of my head I know Camila/Shawn won best cinematography for instance. Not sure why Ari was misinformed but yeah it's definitely 3! I totally agree with you that Artist of the Year feels so deserved - videos like 'God is a woman', 'breathin', 'thank u, next' and '7 rings' since the last cut-off point are a great little collection.
August 27, 20195 yr Aaah. Fair enough. :D But still, so deserved. Queen of not showing up and winning one of the big awards *.*
