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Simone Biles Kisses Jonathan Owens at Texans vs. Colts Game
Simone Biles threw her support behind husband Jonathan Owens ahead of the Indianapolis Colts’ Week 3 game against the Houston Texans.
Sharing a sweet smooch with her man, 31, ahead of the Sunday, September 27, matchup at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Biles, 29, grasped onto his arms as Colts fans looked on. The kiss might’ve been the safety’s lucky charm as the Colts beat the Texans 19-17.
In the hours prior to kick-off, the Olympic gold medallist gymnast took to her Instagram Stories to share further pre-game glimpses with her many fans. A mirror selfie showed Biles rocking a navy blue Balenciaga T-shirt dress and knee-high black leather boots before a second photo showed raised hands holding shots of liquor up together.
A third snap captured the couple, who married in April 2023 before staging a second, more lavish event in Mexico’s Cabo San Lucas one month later, enjoying some post-game action. Posing for a photo on the sidelines together, Owens, who only signed with the Colts in March, rocked a blue Balenciaga T-shirt of his own as Biles wrapped her arms around him.
Jonathan Owens kicked off the Sunday, December 22, Chicago Bears football game with his usual pre-kickoff kiss from his wife, Simone Biles. Biles, 27, met up with Owens, 29, on the sidelines of Chicago’s Soldier Field on Sunday afternoon before the game began where he gave the Olympic gymnast a sweet peck on the cheek. […]
A final Instagram Stories image showed Owens on the field with a jumbo screen with the text “Colts win!” flashing in the background.
Biles has served as a reliable cheerleader for her other half already this NFL season. During the Colts’ week 1 clash against the Baltimore Ravens on September 13, Biles was photographed kissing her husband before the game. Dressed in another mini dress, only this one stamped with Owens’ “38” jersey initials on its back, Biles wore a full face of glam, mermaid waves and a diamond necklace to complement her look.
The couples’ good times come amid news of a recent frightening incident that occurred in their Chicago home coming to light. Revealing details of an alleged break-in, Biles shared a TikTok video with fans to fill them in.
While Jonathan Owens and the Chicago Bears lost their Thursday, December 26, game against the Seattle Seahawks, he made up with sideline support. Owens, 29, received a sweet kiss from wife Simone Biles ahead of the matchup. The couple, who have been married since spring 2023, packed on the PDA at the Bears’ home Soldier […]
“Get ready with me to go pick up my new car,” she said in her Monday, September 21, post. “I feel like I need a new car because, during our last few months in Chicago, three men in masks came to our house and stole my Porsche GTS.”
She added that she would share further details into the incident in the future.
“If you guys want to know, I’ll do a storytime on that,” she said at the time. “I feel like I need a reality show. The things that happen to me are absolute insanity, and so it’d be really easy for producers to just film regularly.”
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Madonna certainly had a celebration to remember at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.
Madonna, 68, was up for 13 trophies during the Sunday, September 27, awards ceremony, ultimately taking home seven Moon Person statuettes for Best Collaboration (“Bring Your Love” with Sabrina Carpenter), Artist of the Year, Best Dance (“Confessions II – The Film”), Best Album (Confessions II), Best Long Form Video (“Confessions II – The Film”), Best Choreography (“Confessions II – The Film”) and Best Cinematography (“Confessions II – The Film”).
“First of all, I would like thank my fingers because I can always count on them,” she began her Artist of the Year acceptance speech. “Some of you were probably not born — most of you were probably not born — but I performed at the first VMAs 43 years ago.”
She continued, “I spent the last year and half finding myself, believing in myself and making the music I want to make, and to me, that really is the definitely of being an artist.”
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The pop star — who opened Sunday’s show for the first time in two decades — earned the most nominations this year in the categories of Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Album, Best Collaboration, Best Dance, Best Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Choreography, Best Visual Effects and Best Long Form Video.
Madonna, already a 20-time VMA winner, was recognized for her 15th studio album, Confessions II, a sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor. Upon its July release, Confessions II debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
“I was supposed to make a movie about my life. I worked on my script for two years and spent two years at Universal Studios with the line producers doing budgeting and casting,” Madonna told Interview magazine in June of returning to the recording studio. “We had a falling out, me and Universal, regarding budget. I’ve had an extraordinary life. I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget.”
Instead, the Queen of Pop sought another way to unleash her inner creativity.
The wildest night in music is finally here. The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards kicked off at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 27, with Snoop Dogg serving as the evening’s host. The network tapped this year’s most-nominated (and most-awarded) artist, Madonna, to open the show, marking the first time the Queen […]
“I thought the world is in a very dark place and people need to dance. I hadn’t worked with Stuart [Price] for a long time,” she recalled of the producer. “We’d just done the Celebration Tour together, but besides that, I didn’t really see or speak to him for probably 15 years.”
She continued at the time, “I was living in New York and I reached out to him, thinking, ‘What if we tried to make Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II, and reenter the world of inspirational dance music?’ So I came to London and went to his studio, and we were just playing around to see if there was magic between us.”
Turns out, Madonna and Price admittedly still had a “good” spark in the studio together.
“I went through all this darkness in the beginning, writing these songs with Stuart, and then we went full circle, and I’m like, ‘OK, now what happens? How do we get out of this?’” she added to the magazine. “What happens when you walk into a nightclub or walk onto the dance floor or go to a rave? [Life] can be [heavy], but I always push through and I’m a survivor.”
Madonna has been a staple at the VMAs since the first show in 1984, where she sang “Like a Virgin” in a wedding dress. She also famously performed “Vogue” in 1990 and kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in 2003.
Taylor Swift had some extra shine to take home after the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.
Swift, 36, won a total of two Moon Person trophies out of her 11 nominations on Sunday, September 27, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. The singer, who was also honored with the inaugural Artist Director Honors, received Video of the Year for “The Fate of Ophelia” and Best Direction for “Opalite.”
While taking home the trophy for Video of the Year, Swift dedicated her speech to the late Dolly Parton.
“To the fans, thank you for voting on it,” she began. “I loved making this video because I wanted it to seem like one continuous shot, so I learned a lot about hiding cuts in places. I want to thank and dedicate this award to one person, without whom this wouldn’t be happening, and that person is the ultimate showgirl, Dolly Parton. Every single song that she wrote, her storytelling was so vivid and so rich. … Listening to her songs, it’s like watching the best music video you have ever seen in your life every single time you hear what she has written.”
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This year, Swift was also nominated for Best Choreography, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Pop Song for her hit “The Fate of Ophelia.” She was also up for Best Album for The Life of a Showgirl and Artist of the Year. Lastly, Swift was nominated for Song of the Summer for her Toy Story 5 track “I Knew It, I Knew You.”
While accepting the inaugural Artist Director Honors, she premiered her “Patient Zero” music video, which featured Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson as a couple. Swift also appeared in the video as Farrell’s ghostly ex who lived through a similarly toxic relationship.
Swift released an extended edition of her 12 album, titled The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, on Friday, September 25. The album featured new single “Patient Zero,” as well as three more songs: “Cleveland!,” “Pink Clouding” and “Babylon.”
It was a tough battle, but America voted for Taylor Swift as the 2023 Video of the Year winner at the MTV Video Music Awards. “OK, this is unbelievable,” Swift, 33, said after receiving her fourth Moonperson on Tuesday, September 12. “The fact that this is a fan-voted award means so much to me based […]
“About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind… You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history,” the chart-topping performer wrote via Instagram last week. “I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with [producers] Max [Martin] and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album.”
She continued, “Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs. I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made.”
Animated film has, since its inception, been home to some of cinema’s most iconic villains. The virtually boundless nature of animation leaves room for antagonists who are always a mighty obstacle in the hero’s way — and sometimes, an absolutely terrifying one, too.
Whether they’re from a straight-up animated horror movie like The Nightmare Before Christmas, or from a less scary but equally intense classic like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, some animated villains can truly make young audiences’ skin crawl; and in the best of cases, they can even scare the pants off adults.
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The Coachman
‘Pinocchio’ (1940)
Disney’s essential classic Pinocchio is one of those fantasy movies with perfect endings, but before it gets to that destination, the film throws not just one, but several of the House of Mouse’s scariest villains the protagonist’s way. The scariest of the bunch, though, is undoubtedly the Coachman, a man who lures children onto a stagecoach to take them to “Pleasure Island.”
Pinocchio as a whole can be a remarkably scary film considering the age demographic it’s aimed at, but the Coachman in particular feels like he was specifically designed to be as scary as possible. Nearly a century later, it’s still awfully effective. From his design to his sadistic demeanor, he’s one of the most memorable parts of an unforgettable animated classic.
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Chernabog
‘Fantasia’ (1940)
Pinocchio wasn’t the only Disney movie from 1940, nor did it deliver the year’s scariest animated villain. That title has to go to the legendary Fantasia, one of the best movie classics from 1940. This musical anthology introduces eight distinct musical segments, the penultimate one being Modest Mussorgsky‘s “Night on Bald Mountain,” where a giant demon called Chernabog summons monsters to revel in humanity’s suffering.
Considering the fact that he has no dialogue and that he appears only in a single segment of the entire movie, it’s remarkable just how unforgettably scary Chernabog can be. Hailing from Slavic mythology, the character is designed and shown in such a way that it’s impossible not to find him intimidating, and impossible not to celebrate when he and his spirits are finally banished back into the mountain.
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The Horned King
‘The Black Cauldron’ (1985)
Back in 1985, Disney’s The Black Cauldron was an all-out critical and commercial flop for a wide variety of reasons. As the years have passed, audiences have greatly warmed up to it. Is it one of the best fantasy movies of the 1980s? Not quite. But is it nevertheless full of redeeming qualities? Yes, which is how it has become such a nostalgic cult classic.
It’s almost universally agreed that the most redeeming strength that makes The Black Cauldron entertaining after more than three decades is its iconic villain, the Horned King. With his absolutely terrifying skeletal design, John Hurt‘s chilling voice performance, and the movie’s overall grim tone, it’s no wonder why he’s gone down in history as one of Disney’s most underrated 20th-century villains.
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Shan Yu
‘Mulan’ (1998)
In Disney’s animated classic Mulan, viewers follow a young Chinese maiden who, in order to save her father from death in the army, goes in his place and becomes her country’s greatest heroine in the process.
While Disney Renaissance classics may not be the first group of movies to come to mind when you think of the word “scary”, some certainly had their fair share of fear to generate. The villain of Mulan, the ruthless leader of the Hun Army, is certainly quite terrifying. Visually imposing and intimidating in his demeanor, Shan Yu is quite a force to be reckoned with.
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Claude Frollo
‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ (1996)
Despite how acclaimed it is, The Hunchback of Notre Dame still feels like one of the most criminally underrated Disney classics. A somewhat watered-down, but still pretty intense adaptation of Victor Hugo‘s dark and tragic novel, it’s about a bell-ringer who must assert his independence from a government minister in order to help a friend.
The vicious minister is Claude Frollo, one of the most genuinely horrifying villains Disney has ever created. What’s particularly scary about him is that he feels all too realistic—Manipulative, abusive, and purely evil, he’s a reflection of all the villains that have defined history.
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Grigori Rasputin
‘Anastasia’ (1997)
One of the most romantic animated films ever, and one of director Don Bluth‘s most acclaimed works, Anastasia is the story of the last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family, who joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother.
While Anastasia struggles to find her family, the sinister Rasputin seeks her death. The villain’s design is creepy to say the least, and the scenes that show him at his most relentlessly violent should be enough to send chills down the spine of anyone who grew up getting nightmares from this antagonist.
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Friends on the Other Side
‘The Princess and the Frog’ (2009)
Disney’s second-to-last traditional 2D-animated feature, The Princess and the Frog puts a fresh spin on some traditional fairy tale tropes. It tells the tale of a waitress who, after trying to turn a frog prince back into a human, faces the same problem herself after kissing him, and has to set out on a journey to fix it.
Although the film’s main antagonist, Dr. Facilier, is intimidating enough, it’s his mysterious spirit friends who are the scariest presence in the movie. Based on Louisiana Voodoo elements, the spirits are so unpredictable and mystifying that it’s hard not to be scared of them.
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General Woundwort
‘Watership Down’ (1978)
Based on the 1972 novel by Richard Adams, Martin Rosen‘s British indie classic Watership Down is one of the most subversive animated movies of all time, and quite successfully so. It completely redefines the idea of a children’s fable, mostly thanks to elements as shockingly dark as General Woundwort, a military dictator who runs the Efrafa warren with an iron fist.
A villainous bunny rabbit may not sound like all that intimidating of a concept, but General Woundwort is surprisingly scary. Inspired by the brutality of history’s most terrifying dictators and designed in such a way that just looking at him sends chills down one’s spine, he’s one of the main reasons why Watership Down is still a must-see in 2026.
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The House
‘Monster House’ (2006)
There are plenty of surprisingly great horror movies for kids, and Gil Kenan‘s supernatural horror comedy Monster House is undoubtedly one of the very best. Far more than just a vestige of the days when motion-capture-animated movies were all the rage, Monster House is a bona fide modern classic which has only gotten scarier, funnier, and more universally beloved with age.
The mystery of the titular monster house is what the film is all about, and while the character who holds the answer to that mystery may not exactly be a villain, the vengeful spirit that possesses the house certainly is. It isn’t a traditional character by any means, but it’s such a well-written and even better-designed villain that it’s absolutely unforgettable.
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Hexxus
‘FernGully: The Last Rainforest’ (1992)
Indie animated musical films aren’t all that common, which makes FernGully: The Last Rainforest an even more precious gem. It’s about the magical inhabitants of a forest and their fight to save their home from a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus.
A beautiful film that celebrates love for nature, FernGully nevertheless isn’t afraid to scare its audience with a terrifying villain. With stunning animation and one of Tim Curry‘s best voice performances, Hexxus becomes a formidable entity that, for the majority of the film’s runtime, feels impossible to defeat.
Pokémon GO players have had plenty of reasons to hunt for Applin since the apple-dwelling Pokémon arrived in the game. Catching one is only part of the job: Evolving it means collecting the right kind of apple, and the one you need depends on which evolution you’re after. The upcoming Harvest Festival is giving players a chance to fill their bags before those choices come up again.
There is another reason to go apple picking this year. Mossy Lure Modules will work differently during the event, and players will be able to choose a reward path that gives them a particular kind of apple. Anyone who has been putting off an Applin evolution might want to make room in their schedule.
Shiny Applin will make its Pokémon GO debut during Harvest Festival: Applin Picking, which runs from Tuesday, September 29, at 10:00 a.m. through Monday, October 5, at 8:00 p.m. local time. Applin may appear in the wild, and catching one during the event will have an increased chance of yielding a Tart Apple, Sweet Apple, or Syrupy Apple once players unlock the first bonus on the event’s GO Pass. As always, finding a Shiny is a matter of luck, so the extra Applin encounters should be welcome.
Shiny Applin Isn’t the Only Reason To Go Apple Picking
Mossy Lure Modules will attract only apples during the event. Tapping those apples can award one of the three evolution items or trigger an encounter with an event Pokémon, including Applin and flower-crown Cottonee. Wild encounters will also include Skwovet, Lechonk, and Smoliv, with an increased chance of finding Shiny Smoliv. Players who reach Rank 10 on the event GO Pass can make their Mossy Lure Modules last for an hour, giving them more time to search. The event also includes branching Timed Research with a choice between Tart Apples, Sweet Apples, and Syrupy Apples as rewards. Pick the path that matches the evolution you want, then finish the tasks and claim the rewards by October 5 at 8:00 p.m. local time. Event-themed Field Research will offer additional Pokémon encounters.
Every player will automatically receive the free Harvest Festival GO Pass when the event begins. Ranking it up can earn Pokémon encounters, apples, a Mossy Lure Module, and a Super Rocket Radar, while Rank 20 unlocks extra Stardust from defeating Team GO Rocket Grunts and Leaders, although doing so is considerably less frequent now. A paid GO Pass Deluxe costs $4.99, or $6.99 with enough GO Points to reach Rank 7, and adds rewards such as more encounters, apples, and Mossy Lure Modules. Players can upgrade later and still collect paid rewards from ranks they have already unlocked. There is a little breathing room after the event for claiming GO Pass rewards: They expire on Wednesday, October 7, at 8:00 p.m. local time. The Shiny hunt itself ends with the Harvest Festival on October 5.
The MTV Video Music Awards have been making headlines since 1984, and there is not a hint that the ceremony will slow down anytime soon.
Britney Spears, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus and more of the biggest names in the music industry are responsible for the craziest VMAs moments ever. From the Hannah Montana alum’s twerking with Robin Thicke to the Princess of Pop’s kiss with Madonna, celebrities have long used the VMAs stage to incite controversy and keep fans talking for years to come.
Perhaps the most noteworthy VMAs moment of all time came when West ambushed Taylor Swift on stage in 2009 to share his opinion that Beyoncé should have won Best Female Video instead of the “You Belong With Me” singer.
“Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all times!” the rapper declared, referring to her “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” hit. “One of the best videos of all time!”
Swift revealed in August 2019 that she wrote a diary entry about the moment. “Ahh… the things that can change in a week,” she noted in a page published in the deluxe version of her Lover album. “Let’s just say, if you had told me that one of the biggest stars in music was going to jump on stage and announce that he thought I shouldn’t have won on live television, I would’ve said, ‘That stuff doesn’t really happen in real life.’ Well … apparently … it does.”
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The MTV Video Music Awards have officially crowned a new Video of the Year winner.
Host Snoop Dogg presented the trophy to Taylor Swift for “The Fate of Ophelia” at the 2026 ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 27, marking her sixth time winning the accolade.
Swift, 36, dedicated the award to Dolly Parton, who died in August at age 80.
“I want to thank and dedicate this award to one person, without whom this wouldn’t be happening, and that person is the ultimate showgirl, Dolly Parton,” she said in her acceptance speech. “Every single song that she wrote, her storytelling was so vivid and so rich. … Listening to her songs, it’s like watching the best music video you have ever seen in your life every single time you hear what she has written.”
Swift continued, “She handled this thing with such grace and joy and love and gratitude for the fact that she got to do this, and everything that happened in her life and her career, she channeled back into love and gratitude and appreciation for her fans. I am lucky I got to be one of them, and I will always be one of them. I love you all so very much, and I think that we were all very, very … lucky to share this planet with Dolly Parton for a time, and thank you for this amazing moment. I love you all.”
When nominations were announced in August, six artists had the chance to win Video of the Year. Swift earned a nod for “The Fate of Ophelia,” while Ariana Grande was honored for “Hate That I Made You Love Me.” Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Tears” was also nominated, along with Madonna‘s “Confessions II – The Film.” Bruno Mars and Gener8ion rounded out the category for “I Just Might” and “Storm” featuring Yung Lean, respectively.
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Last year, Grande, 33, took home Video of the Year for Brighter Days Ahead, the short film that accompanied her album Eternal Sunshine.
“I want to start off, again, with my fans: Thank you so, so, so much. I love you with all my heart,” she said in her acceptance speech at the 2025 awards show. “I have since I was a teenager, since we first crossed paths, and I will for my whole life.”
Grande shared the honor with director Christian Breslauer. She went on to explain the personal meaning behind the project.
“Art has been a safe space for me since I was a kid,” the “Break Free” singer continued. “I’m so grateful that I get to do this with my life and to have such fiercely loving and supportive fans. Thank you for growing with me and being so supportive of me as a human being, navigating in real time which creative itch needs to be scratched next, whether it’s acting, music, musical theater or a little bit of tour.”
She concluded, “This project is about the hard work that is healing all different kinds of trauma and coming home to our young selves and creating safety in our own lives, which is a lifelong process and a daily exercise. If you’re on that journey, please continue onward, because I promise there are brighter days ahead.”
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Grande’s win pressed pause on a three-year streak by Swift, who won Video of the Year in 2022 for All Too Well: The Short Film, 2023 for her “Anti-Hero” music video and 2024 for “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone.
Swift’s 2024 acceptance speech marked one of her first major public comments about then-boyfriend Travis Kelce, who she married this summer after three years together.
“It was actually the most fun video to make,” she gushed at the time. “Something that I’ll always remember is when I finished a take and I’d say ‘cut,’ and we’d be done with that take, I would always hear someone cheering from across the studio where we were shooting it. That one person was my boyfriend, Travis.”
The “Patient Zero” artist added, “Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic, so I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot because I’ll always remember that.”
VMAs, what’s good? Throughout its history, the MTV Video Music Awards has been responsible for kickstarting a handful of famous celebrity feuds.
Fans will never forget the moment Kanye West stormed the stage, seeking justice for Beyoncé after Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video award in September 2009. “Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time,” West exclaimed, kicking off a years-long feud between the two.
In 2015, the VMAs were responsible for sparking another highly publicized feud between Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus. After the Last Song actress, who was hosting the awards ceremont that year, dissed the “Starships” rapper in an interview with The New York Times, Minaj put her on blast.
“And now, back to this bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press,” she said on the VMAs stage during the live broadcast. “Miley, what’s good?”
Scroll down for a look back at some of the most scathing feuds to play out at the VMAs through the years:
Few Video Music Awards moments were as chaotic as Nirvana‘s 1992 performance. The grunge band pushed back against MTV’s expectations, delivering one of the ceremony’s most memorable appearances, one that even resulted in an injury. The onstage chaos, however, was only part of the story, as tensions also brewed backstage.
More than three decades later, Nirvana returned to the VMAs under different circumstances. The band recently received the Video Vanguard Award, celebrating the band’s influence on music and culture.
Nirvana Reunites To Receive MTV VMAs’ Highest Honor
On September 27, Nirvana’s surviving members Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, and Pat Smear reunited at the MTV Video Music Awards, 34 years since their debut performance at the ceremony.
The grunge band that helped define a generation received the Video Vanguard Award, the show’s highest honor. During his speech, Novoselic took the time to honor their late frontman, Kurt Cobain, who died by suicide at 27 years old, describing him as “one of the greatest artists of all time.”
“Kurt was one of one,” the bassist said, adding that none of them imagined their music or style would resonate with so many listeners.
“Nirvana continues to resonate so deeply because people are still hungry for authenticity, for something real, something uncompromising, something that tells people it’s just okay to ‘come as you are.’ Kurt would love that legacy,” Novoselic continued, referencing one of their hit songs.
The Latest Recognition Adds To The Band’s List Of Accolades
Nirvana formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in the ’80s and broke into the mainstream with their sophomore album “Nevermind,” released in 1991, which included hits such as “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come as You Are,” “In Bloom,” and “Lithium.” They disbanded after Cobain’s death in 1994.
Despite their brief time together, Nirvana earned numerous accolades and remains one of the most influential bands in rock history.
They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, their first year of eligibility, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Their impact has also been recognized by the Grammy Hall of Fame, which inducted “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and the album “Nevermind” in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
Inside Nirvana’s Wild 1992 VMAs Performance
Nirvana’s 1992 VMA appearance remains a memorable moment in the show’s history. According to reports, MTV wanted the band to perform “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” while Cobain wanted to play “R-pe Me,” much to the executives’ dismay.
According to Novoselic, the network was adamant that Nirvana not sing the song because of its lyrics and subject matter, and “there was quite a swirl around this issue.” They reached a compromise and performed “Lithium” instead, but not before singing the intro to “R-pe Me” as an act of rebellion. Later, Cobain said he just wanted to give MTV a little “heart palpitation.”
Toward the end of the song, Novoselic tossed his bass into the air, only for it to come crashing down on him. He grabbed his head as he made his way offstage, while Cobain drove the neck of his guitar into an amplifier before hurling it toward Grohl’s drum kit, adding even more chaos to the wild performance.
Nirvana’s Backstage Tension With Guns N’ Roses
Cobain and Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose already had beef due to their clash in music philosophies. Backstage before Nirvana’s performance, Cobain’s wife, Courtney Love, teasingly asked Rose if he wanted to be their daughter’s godfather, which agitated the singer.
“Axl apparently got very annoyed, walked over to Kurt, and demanded that he keep his woman in line. Kurt turned to Courtney and sarcastically asked his woman to keep in line and left it at that. Axl then split. Of course, Kurt and Courtney were musing over Axl’s response in the context of society’s patriarchal tendencies,” Novoselic wrote, recalling the incident. Novoselic also said he exchanged tense words with Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan before he went onstage to perform.
As for his injury, the bassist said his bloody forehead was bandaged, and he went on to drink champagne with Queen’s Brian May.
Nirvana’s Enduring Legacy
More than three decades after their breakthrough, Nirvana’s legacy remains evident, and the band’s VMA story brings its recognition full circle.
Even as fame propelled the band into the mainstream, they remained true to the anti-establishment spirit that defined them. Nirvana was celebrated by the same institution they once challenged and was honored for the influence and individuality that made them stand out.
The MTV Video Music Awards are known to make headlines for awesome performances, viral moments — and even red carpet debuts for some of Hollywood’s most fun couples.
In 2018, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson made their first awards show appearance as a couple, just two months after getting engaged. Though the “7 Rings” songstress and the Saturday Night Live star called it quits on their relationship weeks later, the twosome stole the show both on the red carpet and inside New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.
“Pete Davidson, thanks for existing,” Grande gushed during her acceptance speech after winning in the Best Pop category. “Love you.”
That same year, NFL star Victor Cruz and Karrueche Tran stepped out for a head-turning appearance at the VMAs. They split in 2021.
Scroll down to see some of the couples that made their red carpet debuts at the VMAs:
President Donald Trump is slamming former President Barack Obama’s claim that governments around the world would function better if women were in charge.
“I love women, I think they’re great, but what a ridiculous statement that is, right?” Trump, 80, told a reporter during a Sunday, September 27, press conference in Washington, D.C., when asked to respond to the former president’s claim that the world would be better if women were in charge.
In a clip of the moment, shared via APT News’ YouTube account, the reporter had referred to earlier comments made by Obama, 65, during a Monday, September 21, interview with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Massachusetts’ Salem State University.
“Barack Obama just said if you put women in charge of every government for two years, things would be better. Do you buy that?” asked the journalist on Sunday, which drew Trump’s vocal disagreement.
Obama, who served as the 44th President of the U.S. from 2009 to 2017, said at last week’s event that if women led for two years, “I have a strong belief that things … they wouldn’t be perfect, but they’d be better.”
He added at the time, “I’m confident about that,” which drew rapturous applause from the sold-out audience.
Barack Obama Pedro Ugarte / AFP
Trump and Obama have shared a prickly public relationship since the former took the presidency baton from the latter in January 2017. In February, Trump shared a racist AI-generated social media post that depicted Barack and his wife, Michelle, as primates in a jungle.
Although the post was later deleted following public backlash, Trump told the press in the aftermath that he “didn’t make a mistake” and did not feel the need to apologize.
Four months later, Obama said Trump harbors an “obsession” with him.
“You gotta ask him what it is … the obsession,” Obama said when asked about Trump’s “fascination” with him on the June 24 episode of Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s “All the Smoke” podcast.
Michelle Obama does not want husband Barack Obama to, hypothetically, run for a third term as President of the United States. During the Wednesday, January 21, “Call Her Daddy” podcast episode, host Alex Cooper asked Michelle, 62, all about the future — and if a possible change made by President Donald Trump would change anything […]
“I obviously have a room in his head,” he continued. “A suite in his head. First of all, when I was president, the last thing I had to do was worry about what someone said or what my predecessor did. They’re gone. I’ve got work to do.”
Last week, Trump’s wife, First Lady Melania, said during an appearance on Fox & Friends that her husband was “doing the best that he can.”
Melania, 56, explained on the Wednesday, September 23, episode, “He’s very focused. He has a lot on his plate. It’s very different, what’s going on around the world now. But I think he’s doing the best that he can. He works nonstop, he has the most energy than anybody. He’s, from morning until evening, nonstop working.”
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