This year’s MTV Video Music Awards was nothing short of amazing— I mean from Miley Cyrus hosting the show in all of her notoriety, along with Kanye West announcing his intent to run for president in the year 2020—the show was legendary. 

Nicki Minaj opened the show with a very creative performance of her hit singles “Trini Dem Girls” and “The Night is Still Young”. And she also shocked fans when she brought Taylor Swift on stage to help her out. Who would have thought those two would be sharing the stage after their alleged twitter feud over a month ago when Minaj was snubbed from the Video of the Year award category.  

Now of course everybody expected the host, Miley Cyrus, to completely ruin the show because of her drastic change from sweet little Hannah Montana to wild ‘n out Miley—but her flashy outfits and witty jokes did not disappoint. She also let us know why she put her music on pause this past year—to focus on her true love, Instagram.

The audience was bombarded by celebrity feuds throughout the program.

I am sure nobody knew about the sudden issue between Cyrus and Minaj. Well, Nicki certainly made it known when she went on stage to receive her award for Best Hip Hop Music Video. 

The onlookers were equally shocked when Minaj called out Cyrus for saying some negative things to her in the press a few weeks back, but Cyrus took the unscripted moment and said, “We’re all in this industry. We all do interviews. We all know how they manipulate s—. Nicki, congratulations.”  Cyrus’ statement was followed by an awkward silence as Minaj mouthed the B-word to Cyrus again.

Aside from the celebrity beef, the VMA’s were full of great performances.

Macklemore, Demi Lovato, the Weeknd, A$AP Rocky and Twenty One Pilots, Tori Kelley, Pharrell and more took the stage to perform their hits. Justin Bieber also dominated the stage for the first time in two and a half years, crying after his emotional performance of “What do You Mean.”

West’s acceptance speech for the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award was iconic. Not only did his speech address his egotistic nature, but he took publicity stunts to a new extreme with his statement, “And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.” Whether West was being serious with his candidacy announcement is still unclear, but time will tell if America is ready for its first president with no actual political background.

Cyrus closed the show with a performance which proved to the world once again that she does not care about what others think of her in all her potty-mouth glory—a performance which definitely left the audience thinking what they were thinking all along—“is this for real?”