Taylor Swift Used Her VMA Video Of The Year Speech To Call Out The White House

You lover to be able to see it. Right after a Taylor Swift-centric week — throughout which the pop star released her seventh album, Lover — she's right now emerged the winner of the highest honor at the VMAs. That's right: Tay took residence the Video of the Year award on Monday night (August 26), and she was anything although "calm" about her big win.


Swift's victory came for the rainbow-colored, cameo-packed visual for "You Need to Calm Down," which featured an all-star lineup of LGBTQ celebrities, like Ellen DeGeneres, the Queer Eye fab five, and Hayley Kiyoko. The vid made a big splash upon its debut earlier this summer, and Swift reflected on its message as soon as she got onstage, flanked by some of her collaborators and visitors from the vid.


"In this video, a number of points were made," she mentioned. "So you voting for this video means that you want a global where we're all treated identically, without consideration of who we love, without consideration of how we identify."


Swift then thanked each person who signed her petition for the Equality Act, which she mentioned right now boasts half a million signatures. "Which," she noted as she pretended to check her watch, "is five times the amount that it would need to warrant a response from the White Residence Zing!


This marks Swift's second time earning the Video of the Year award — she previously won in 2015 for the equally star-studded "Bad Blood." The pop star, who's nominated for a whopping 10 awards total tonight, also took residence the prize for Video for Good.


Swift's Video of the Year win comes right after she opened the show with a dazzling rendition of "You Need to Calm Down," along with because the world premiere efficiency of "Lover." Clearly, Taylor is feeling all the passion tonight!


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