Lady Gaga wins eight MTV Awards

13 Sep 2010, 5:45 pm   -   Source: AP
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Lady Gaga dominated the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles taking home eight prizes including video of the year. (Getty)

Lady Gaga dominated the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles taking home eight prizes including video of the year. (Getty)

Lady Gaga dominated the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles taking home eight prizes including video of the year.

Taylor Swift absolved Kanye West of last year's onstage sin with one sombre song, and West, also in song, beat himself up once again over his misbehaviour.

The Swift-West drama took centre stage at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, with both superstars either addressing or dancing around the incident that won't die.

Both dramatic performances delivered on pre-show hype of a Kanye-Taylor sequel and overshadowed the evening's other moments, including Lady Gaga's eight-win sweep. Among her awards was video of the year for Bad Romance.

The stage for both songs was set last year, when West interrupted Swift's acceptance speech, saying her trophy should have gone to Beyonce. The incident left Swift with hurt feelings, but West was the one who was seriously damaged, as intense backlash made him Mr Unpopularity.

While West didn't address the trophy-gate incident directly onstage, he rapped and sang a song that mocked the boorish behaviour that has upstaged his music. He was booed by some members of the audience prior to his performance.

While Swift is known for skewering those who have done her wrong in song, for West, she offered an olive branch with her song Innocent, written earlier this year.

The 20-year-old's poignant and powerful ode didn't criticise West. Instead she sympathised with his difficult time in the spotlight and West's own admissions that his ego has often gotten in his own way. She then appeared from the audience to skip offstage.

But the evening wasn't just the Swift-West show: Lady Gaga was the night's top winner, snatching trophies including best female video. She was also the most outrageously dressed - and that's saying something, given Katy Perry's barely there outfit and Ke$ha's garbage bag-dress.

Gaga accepted her video of the year award with an outfit sure to anger PETA: a dress and chapeau made of what seemed to be cuts of raw beef, including a meat purse. It was one of her three zany outfits of the evening: she arrived at the awards in a spectacular outfit by the late Alexander McQueen: A Victorian-inspired gown and a Mohawk feather headdress atop a long white wig, with monstrous stilettos that made her look as though she was on stilts.

Later, she changed into a black dress so overflowing she needed help to get onstage to accept on of her trophies.

Cher - an over-the-top diva from a different era - gave Gaga her best-video award and noted she had been raising eyebrows while Lady Gaga "was still Baby Gaga".

Gaga was teary-eyed, and sang the title song, Born This Way, off her new album as she accepted the last award.

Compared to the pathos of Swift and West, and Gaga being Gaga, there were few other highlights, despite performances from Usher, Eminem and Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Linkin Park, and appearances by Nicki Minaj and the cast of MTV's own Jersey Shore.

Host Chelsea Handler gave the show its traditional bawdiness - her jokes often fell flat, though she did have a few zingers, most of them vulgar.

A pre-taped portion of her opening featured the host getting spanked multiple times by show participants in a backstage hallway before running into the recently freed Lindsay Lohan, who also gave her a swat.

"Have you been drinking?" Lohan demanded from Handler.

"Do you think anyone wants to work with a drunk? Take it from me! They don't!"

Later, on stage, Handler implored the all-star audience to get wild.

"I want to encourage everybody to be on their worst behaviour," she said.

"I want to turn this mother out. ... Get your tongues ready because I want those tongues shoved in places they're not supposed to be."

But it was a relatively tame night; perhaps, given West's antics last year, the stars had learned a lesson.

MTV , Popular Music

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(not a) Lady Gaga

Hot button - from Sydney, 3 years ago

She oozes sex and I would bet that the majority of males are just interesetd in having sex with her, while females would like to be like her to have these same males desire them. This is the reason she has won the awards, even though her music is good.

Video of the year

Thom - from Perth, 3 years ago

If the start putting soft porn videos up for MTV videos these 'singers' wouldn't stand a chance

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