Lady Gaga And Ariana Grande Wear Face Masks During Their Performance At The MTV VMAs
John V.
Posted On August 31, 2020
Making a statement on abiding by safety guidelines, Gaga, 34, wore a LED face mask throughout her set, as well as Ariana, 27, who wore a black silk mask, as she joined her for their hit For Rain On Me.
Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande stole the show at the 2020 MTV VMA Awards in New York on Sunday.
The event was initially tipped to be hosted from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center however a change in plans saw the show shifted to pre-records, despite MTV claiming much of the show would remain live.
The showstopping set was a medley of Gaga’s songs including 911, Rain On Me, and Stupid Love, from her hit album Chromatica.
Making a statement on abiding by safety guidelines, Gaga, 34, wore a LED face mask throughout her set, as well as Ariana, 27, who wore a black silk mask, as she joined her for their hit For Rain On Me.
The performance was kicked off by Gaga under a blanket as she watched a TV, which teased a performance by Britney Spears and N*Sync from an old MTV VMAs event.
She then got up from the couch and began singing the track 911 from her latest album, before Ariana also came on stage with her.
The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards were originally scheduled to be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, before the coronavirus pandemic forced organizers to re-think the entire event.
This year’s show marks the first time the bash has been held at various different locations, with performances taking place in and around New York City, without packed audiences to abide by social distancing guidelines.
MTV explained its plans for the show to ‘[span] all five boroughs’ of New York, to ‘pay homage to the strength, spirit and incredible resilience of NYC and its beloved residents.’
Nominations this year were dominated by pop performers Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, with nine nods each, while Billie Eilish and The Weeknd followed closely behind with six each.
They all appear in the top prize category, Video of the Year, which finds Eilish’s Everything I Wanted going up against Eminem and Juice WRLD’s Godzilla, Future and Drake’s Life Is Good, Gaga and Grande’s Rain on Me, Taylor Swift’s The Man, and The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights.
MTV has stated that next year’s 2021 VMAs will be held at the Barclays Center.
