MTV confirmed off its spectacular seating preparations forward of the annual Video Music Awards (VMAs).
A human-sized moon man — modeled after the well-known award handed out to winners — ran throughout the seats on the New Jersey Regional Heart, exhibiting images of the celebs who will attend Tuesday night time’s awards ceremony.
In response to the customized award present, big images of the visitors in attendance and their names had been taped onto the seats to assist the crew put together for the massive night time.
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Simply among the musicians Moonman celebrated in a video posted on them Tik Tok They embody Shakira, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Doja Cat, French Montana, Brazilian famous person Anitta, Olivia Rodrigo and Oscar winner Jared Leto.
“Attempting to select the proper seat for the VMAs tomorrow,” learn the caption on the TikTok.
Identified for its headlining moments, the MTV VMAs have fun the most effective music movies of the previous 12 months and this 12 months’s present will probably be broadcast in additional than 150 international locations world wide.
Rapper Nicki Minaj is serving because the awards host and also will carry out throughout the dwell occasion.
Colombian singer Shakira will obtain the sacred Vanguard Award honoring her unbelievable profession together with 95 million album gross sales worldwide and a number of Grammy Awards. She is ranked among the many prime 5 artists of all time on YouTube with over 20 billion cumulative views.
Shakira will carry out a few of her most memorable songs that night time, as will hip-hop singer Diddy, who returns to the VMAs stage for the primary time since 2005.
Diddy will obtain the International Icon Award for his work as a producer, rapper, mogul, and actor.
Hip-hop stars Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion will give their first dwell efficiency of their second collaboration, “Bongos.”
Different performers on the night time included Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, Anita, Fall Out Boy, Demi Lovato, Future, Lil Wayne, Karol G, nation star Kelsea Ballerini, Metro Boomin and Italian rock band Maniskin.
DMC, LL Cool J, Grandmaster Flash and the Livid 5, and Doug E. Contemporary will lead the present devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop.
Newark Mayor Ras J. Blessing on the return of the VMAs to New Jersey.
“Awarding Newark as host metropolis for the 2023 VMAs…displays our metropolis’s historic ambiance as a bastion of musical genius. From America’s first recognized composer in 1759, to the jazz explosion of the Nineteen Twenties, to the complete vary of musical genres at the moment,” he stated. “From hip-hop to opera, Newark has lengthy been America’s turntable for harmonic expression,” Baraka stated in a press release.
“The significance of at the moment’s Video Music Awards originating from the identical metropolis that filed the primary patent for nitrocellulose within the movement image and video business shouldn’t be misplaced on me as Newark continues to take a seat squarely on the crossroads of movement footage and music.”
The MTV VMAs air Tuesday, September 12 at 8 PM ET/PT.