Mariah Carey. (Manny Carabel/Getty Photos for MTV)
Forward of receiving this 12 months’s Video Vanguard Award, Mariah Carey serenaded audiences with a medley of a few of her biggest hits.
Wearing an opulent, champagne-colored gown, Carey kicked issues off with “Sugar Candy,” earlier than going into “Fantasy,” “Heartbreaker,” Obsessed,” and “It is Like That.” She completed the medley along with her beloved chart-topper, “We Belong Collectively.”
Ariana Grande returned to the stage at hand Carey her Moon Particular person. The “Contact My Physique” singer-songwriter then delivered a transferring speech through which she mirrored on her profession — and joked about how lengthy it is taken MTV to acknowledge her achievements.
“Thanks a lot, MTV, for giving me the Vanguard Award. I can not consider I am getting my first VMA tonight. I simply have one query: What within the Sam Hell had been you ready for?!”
Carey continued, “Music movies are my lifestyle, of bringing music to my very own life. Mini motion pictures visualizing the sheer fantasy of all of it.”
She then referenced a slew of iconic music video moments all through her profession, like “getting in drag for ‘Obsessed,’ taking part in my alter ego, Bianca, in ‘Heartbreaker,’ escaping the mob in ‘Honey’ with a scorching man on a distant island.”
Carey added, “Music evolves, movies evolve, however the enjoyable? That is everlasting.”
