2013 MTV Video Music Awards

Performances

;House artist

• DJ Cassidy

Presenters

List of presenters:

• Sway, Christina Garibaldi, James Montgomery – Pre-Show
• One Direction – presented Best Pop Video
• Shailene Woodley and Vanessa Bayer (as Miley Cyrus) – introduced Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke
• Iggy Azalea and Lil' Kim – presented Best Hip-Hop Video
• Kevin Hart – performed a stand-up comedy routine and spoke about Artist to Watch voting procedures
• Jared Leto – introduced Kanye West
• Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams – presented Best Female Video
• Ed Sheeran – presented Best Video with a Social Message
• Jimmy Fallon – presented Video Vanguard Award
• Vampire Weekend – presented Best Song of the Summer
• ASAP Rocky and Jason Collins – introduced Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Mary Lambert
• Emeli Sandé and Adam Lambert – presented Artist to Watch
• TLC (T-Boz and Chilli) – introduced Drake
• Taylor Swift – presented Best Male Video
• Selena Gomez – introduced Bruno Mars
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt – presented Video of the Year
• Allison Williams – introduced Katy Perry

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on July 17, 2013. Winners were announced on August 25, 2013.

Artists with multiple wins and nominations

Controversy

Pop singer Miley Cyrus became the subject of widespread media attention following a controversial performance with Robin Thicke. The performance began with Cyrus performing "We Can't Stop" in bear-themed attire. Following this, Thicke entered the stage and Cyrus stripped down to a flesh-colored two-piece latex outfit while they performed "Blurred Lines" in a duet. Cyrus subsequently touched Thicke's crotch area with a giant manicured foam finger and twerked against him.

Critics broadly panned the performance, while fans and celebrities were shocked. Parents expressed outrage over the performance. An article published in The Hollywood Reporter described the performance as "crass" and "reminiscent of a bad acid trip". The performance was described by XXL critic B. J. Steiner as a "trainwreck in the classic sense of the word as the audience reaction seemed to be a mix of confusion, dismay and horror in a cocktail of embarrassment", while the BBC said Cyrus stole the show with a "raunchy performance". Katy Kroll of Rolling Stone magazine wrote in 2014, "there were dancing teddy bears, an overused foam finger, an unflattering flesh-colored bikini, some very obvious groping and twerking – lots and lots of twerking. For lack of a better term, it was a hot mess." A Telegraph article described Cyrus' actions as her going into "overdrive [...] trying to kill off her Disney millstone, Hannah Montana". The performance generated 306,100 tweets per minute on Twitter, Cyrus' performance resulted in a gain of over 213,000 Twitter followers, 226,000 likes on Facebook, and 90,000 downloads of her new single, "Wrecking Ball", within days of the controversial performance. This amounted to a total 112% increase in Cyrus' social media activity. The performance topped Twitter during the East Coast telecast, with Timberlake behind with 219,800 tweets per minute at its peak. The most-mentioned performers on Twitter were Cyrus (4.5 million), Timberlake (2.9 million) and Lady Gaga (1.9 million).

References

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