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DUSSELDORF, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Taylor Swift walked away with four awards at MTV’s Europe Music Awards on Sunday, including best video for her 10-minute “All to Well.”
Among the double-award winners were Nicki Minaj for Best Song and Best Hip-Hop, and French DJ and record producer David Guetta won Best Electronic and Best Collaboration.
Broadcast on MTV from Düsseldorf, West Germany, the event honored musicians from Brazil to South Korea.
It featured Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, winner of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, performing “Stephania” in an arena lit with Ukraine’s national blue and yellow colors.
American pop singer Swift, wearing a bejeweled mesh dress, won Best Artist, Best Pop, Best Video and Best Long Form Video.
“I feel like I’ve learned a lot about how filmmaking can be a natural extension of my storytelling,” Swift said while accepting the long-form video award.
In “All to Well,” Swift takes inspiration from 1970s Hollywood and describes a spoof romantic relationship that falls apart, leaving only a scarf and memories.
“It was rare, I was there, I remember it so well”, sings Swift.
Minaj’s winning song “Super Freaky Girl” features the 1981 hit “Super Freak” with the lyrics “I can lick it, I can run it while you slippin’ and slidein'”.
British pop star Harry Styles won the “Best Live” category and Thai-born Lalisa ‘Lisa’ Monoban won Best K-Pop. South Korea’s BTS, the global K-pop sensation, won the Biggest Fans category.
The event was hosted by British pop star Rita Ora and film director Taika Waititi, who married this year. Ora herself won for “Best Look”.
Dusseldorf has a musical heritage as the home of pioneering German electronic band Kraftwerk, which influenced generations of pop and dance fans with mesmerizing tracks like “Autobahn”.
The city also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011.
Screaming teenagers watched the stars walk down a red carpet before the event was broadcast from the PSD Bank Dome.
Julian Lennon, son of the Beatles’ John Lennon, said as he entered that he hadn’t seen a concert in years and was looking forward to it.
Rock band Muse, who won the Best Rock Award, said they were dedicating their win to the people of Ukraine and Iran.
Kalush Orchestra frontman Oleh Syuk, wearing a pink hat, said before the performance that he hoped more Ukrainian bands would appear next year.
Reporting by Matthias Inverardi in Düsseldorf and Tom Sims in Frankfurt. Edited by Jane Merriman
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