Taylor Swift made the “entire place shimmer” on the 2022 American Music Awards on Sunday as she gained six trophies on the ceremony together with the award for “Artist of the Yr.”
Swift, who gained her seventh “Artist of the Yr” award in her profession, turned the primary artist within the ceremony’s 50-year historical past to win 40 AMAs on an evening that featured wins by different icons together with Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Harry Types.
The ceremony, hosted by Wayne Brady, additionally featured a tribute to the 2022 “AMA Icon Award” winner Lionel Richie the place Stevie Marvel and Charlie Puth performed a variety of songs from Richie and the Commodores.
The pair later closed the musical tribute with a efficiency of “We Are the World” alongside Ari Lennox, Smokey Robinson and others.
However the night time belonged to Swift, the most-awarded artist in AMAs historical past forward of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, who took dwelling wins for her “All Too Nicely (Taylor’s Model)” music video and her album “Purple (Taylor’s Model).”
Swift, in her “Artist of the Yr” acceptance speech, touched on the variety of albums she’s launched in recent times and the way it’s tied to her followers’ urge to listen to the music she makes.
“You inspired me and I discovered that the extra music I made and the extra music I put out, the happier I used to be, the extra I simply stored that channel open and simply stored creating, stored making issues…,” Swift mentioned.
″So I’ve the followers to thank, basically, for my happiness and I really like you greater than I can say, I can not specific how unbelievable it’s to me that I nonetheless get to do that and that you simply nonetheless care.”
The AMAs, which occurred at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, additionally included extra critical moments the place stars mirrored on the lethal mass capturing at a Colorado Springs’ LGBTQ nightclub on Saturday.
The AMAs “New Artist of the Yr” winner Dove Cameron, who identifies as queer, addressed the capturing throughout her acceptance speech and highlighted the significance of queer visibility.
“I need to remind you that you’re made completely proper, and you might be so beloved and so held,” Cameron mentioned.
Kim Petras, the primary brazenly transgender musician to realize the highest spot on Billboard’s Scorching 100, took a second from an on-stage presentation to comment on homosexual golf equipment raised her and the way she hasn’t stopped thinking in regards to the tragedy.
“My coronary heart goes out to you,” Petras mentioned.