Taylor Swift gets another Moon Person! The pop star concluded her huge VMAs night by accepting the Video of the Year award for “Fortnight.” During her acceptance speech, Swift thanked her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, for being her biggest supporter and making everything feel like “magic.”
“This video seems very sad when you watch it, but it actually was like the most fun video to make,” she said. “Something that I’ll always remember is that when, when I would finish a take, and I’d and I’d say cut, and we’d be done with that take, I would always just hear someone cheering from across the studio where we were shooting it, and that one person was my boyfriend, Travis.”
“Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic, so I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot,” she said of Kelce.
Earlier in her speech, Swift thanked her video collaborators, some of whom she invited onstage. She also thanked the video’s co-stars, including Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles.
“To the fans, I’m always trying to figure out a way to say thank you to you for making my life what it is. For making the Eras Tour what it has become,” Swift said. “For making the Tortured Poets Department what it has become. That’s all you guys for doing that and for voting for this award.”
Swift ended her speech by encouraging her fans and viewers to register to vote, just a day after she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris following her debate with former President Donald Trump.
This win marks Swift’s third consecutive Video of the Year award after taking home the trophy for All Too Well: The Short Film in 2022 and “Anti-Hero” last year. She also took home the trophy in this category in 2019 for “You Need to Calm Down” and in 2015 for “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar.
Swift also won for Artist of the Year and Best Pop. “Fortnight” won for Best Collaboration, Song of Summer, Best Direction, and Best Editing.
Earlier in the night, when she and Malone accepted the award for Best Collaboration, Swift shared a moment to remember the lost lives in 9/11, and thanked Malone for being “ridiculously talented “and “so unfailingly polite.”
“Taylor is absolutely one of the most kind and talented people I’ve ever had the honor of knowing. Just just the amount of of work and care and love that she puts into everything she does from the music video,” Malone says. “I watched her tied up to the operating table thing and she was directing the music video from there. It was pretty badass.”
“Fortnight,” which Swift directed herself, opens in black and white with her handcuffed to a bedframe … on the side of a mental institution’s wall. She takes a pill, gets released, and meets herself. She even becomes Post Malone, at least with his tattoos, as the clip unspools. It ends fittingly in the rain with her holding Post Malone’s hand atop a telephone booth.
The other nominees for Video of the Year were Ariana Grande’s “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” Billie Eilish’s “Lunch,” Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red,” Eminem’s “Houdini,” and SZA’s “Snooze.”
