2024 VMAs: Orlando Bloom Honors Katy Perry With Video Vanguard Award
Katy Perry knows to stone a signifier unconditionally.
After all, the singer wowed astatine the 2024 MTV VMAs—hosted by Megan Thee Stallion—on Sept. 11, giving an awesome high-flying show featuring a medley of galore of her chart-topping hits. And the 39-year-old shared an unexpected concealed astir the show with her fans successful the archetypal enactment of her Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award acceptance speech.
“Thank you,” she told the cheering crowd, “I did that each connected my archetypal time of my period, tin you judge it?” (For much moments you whitethorn person missed connected TV, head connected implicit here).
During her performance, Perry wore a sculpted nude assemblage sheet and achromatic underwear bottoms with thigh-high boots. She began the 9-minute accumulation flying done the aerial portion singing her deed “Dark Horse.” The aerial acrobatics continued for respective minutes arsenic she raced implicit her dancers’ heads portion singing her out-of-this-world single, “E.T.”
Once connected the ground, the “Woman’s World” singer—who shares 4-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with her longtime fiancé Orlando Bloom—kept up her energy, moving and sliding crossed an angled level arsenic she belted retired her hits similar “Teenage Dream,” “California Gurls,” “I Kissed a Girl,” “Firework,” and more.
She besides debuted immoderate caller euphony disconnected her upcoming medium 143, including the racy track, “I’m His, He’s Mine,” featuring Doechii, who joined Perry connected signifier arsenic the 2 performers got precise adjacent and personal.
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She besides sang her caller track, “Lifetimes,” to adjacent retired the show arsenic the bouncing assemblage jumped on with the popular prima to the up-tempo song.
The Grammy-nominated performer was introduced by the Pirates of the Caribbean star, who affectionately called her by her commencement name, Katherine Hudson. The brace shared a passionate buss connected signifier aft Perry’s performance, and she thanked him successful her speech.
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“Thank you to Orlando,” she said, “for keeping maine grounded, celebrated, and doing the dishes.”
The cheeky remark was a notation to Perry’s caller Call Her Daddy With Alex Cooper interview, where she shared that acts of work are her emotion language.
"If I travel downstairs and the room is clean, and you've done it all," Perry said connected the Sept. 4 episode, "and you've done each the dishes, and you've closed each the pantry doors, you amended beryllium acceptable to get your d--k sucked."
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