Taylor Swift and Post Malone win first award during ceremony
There were plenty of awards handed out off camera, but when the ceremony began it was Taylor Swift and Post Malone who accepted the first award.
They won Best Collaboration for Fortnight.
“I wanted to say, you know, waking up this morning in New York on September 11, I’ve just been thinking about what happened 23 years ago,” Swift said.
“Everyone who lost a loved one, and everyone that we lost, and that is the most important thing about today and everything that happens tonight.”
Post Malone and Taylor Swift accepted the Best Collaboration award for Fortnight. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV)
She went on to sing Post Malone’s praises.
“There is a very clear reason why Post Malone is everyone in music’s favourite person to collaborate [with], and it is because you are so ridiculously talented, you are so versatile, and you’re the most down to earth person, honestly, so unfailingly polite,” she said.
“It has taken me forever to get him to stop calling me ma’am.”
Of course, Post Malone couldn’t resist a quip.
“Yes Ma’am,” he said when asked by Swift if he wanted to say a few words.
The duo also won the biggest award of the night, Video of the Year, again for Fortnight, with Swift giving a shout out to her boyfriend Travis Kelce.