I’m too lazy to start at the beginning of this thread but Madonna getting two vma nominations reminds me of how supporting actors nominated for Oscars from the same movie often cancel each other out. I don’t think that was a deciding factor since most of her original fans are old like me and can’t vote because we have dial up America online. Madonna didn’t need to show up. From Sabrina Carpenters Mackie gown to variant slutty bride looks, Madonnas’s dna was all over the show.
I definitely think Katy Perry winning for best performance for “roar” was rigged. However, I watched her entire vma performance of medleys and IMO I found it very entertaining ( she was one prop away from recreating the ass to ass scene in “requiem for a dream” at one point). I was expecting some half baked variation of her Vegas show. Instead, she looked hot and the tweaks in the songs worked. I had to ask myself why any of her concerts need to be more than 10 minutes from now on since she seemed to squeeze all of her hits in.